Unit Book Cliffs, South
Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer, Antelope
Unit Book Cliffs, South lies in Grand County and covers about 1,288 square miles. Ground runs from 4,524 to 7,853 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success here as high as 72%. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit Book Cliffs, South
Unit Book Cliffs, South lies in Grand County and covers about 1,288 square miles. Ground runs from 4,524 to 7,853 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success here as high as 72%. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Bighorn Sheep in Unit Book Cliffs, South
What UDWR publishes for unit Book Cliffs, South is a boundary, not a bighorn sheep map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Grand County. It runs to about 1,288 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Diamond Ridge, Sego Canyon and Green River
UDWR draws unit Book Cliffs, South in Grand County with a boundary that runs on I-70, and on Diamond Ridge, Sego Canyon and Green River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.
High ground inside the line: Roan Peaks, Diamond Ridge and Westwater Point
Named high points inside the unit include Roan Peaks at 9,481 feet, Diamond Ridge at 8,863 feet, Westwater Point at 8,647 feet, Overlook Ridge at 8,421 feet and Jumping Off Point at 8,408 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Sheep on lower country still need rock, and on a desert unit the rock is the whole hunt.
Holding ground: Trail Canyon, Black Canyon and The Pines
Below them sit Trail Canyon at 7,312 feet, Black Canyon at 7,201 feet, The Pines at 7,095 feet, Beaver Hole at 7,043 feet and Cub Valley at 6,902 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.
Water: Trough Spring, Tom Spring and Oak Spring
Named sources include Trough Spring, Tom Spring, Oak Spring and Red Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Before you apply: who owns this unit
A UDWR permit does not authorise hunting on Native American trust lands, on a CWMU without that CWMU's own permit, or on National Park land, and written permission is required to hunt private land. Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 4,524 feet to 7,853 feet, averaging 5,971 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Book Cliffs, South terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Roan Peaks (9,481 ft), Diamond Ridge (8,863 ft), Westwater Point (8,647 ft), Overlook Ridge (8,421 ft)
Holding ground: Nine Hole (9,227 ft), Surveyors Hole (7,692 ft), Trail Canyon (7,312 ft), Trough Spring, Tom Spring
Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.
How to Hunt Bighorn Sheep in Unit Book Cliffs, South
Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit Book Cliffs, South that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. UDWR's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.
Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (resident) | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 25 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (nonresident) | 1 | 6,931 | 0.0% | 25 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 5 | 985 | 0.5% | 26 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 5,536 | 0.0% | 26 |
Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2025 draw recap for bighorn sheep in unit Book Cliffs, South, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 5,536 applicants for 1 licences, 0% drawn, 26 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 985 applicants for 5 licences, 0.5% drawn, 26 bonus points needed
Utah draws on bonus points in a weighted random draw, not in point order, so the figure above is what it happened to take that year rather than a threshold you can plan to reach. More points buy more chances, never a turn. These are the figures as published in UDWR's own draw recap; we have not yet checked them back against the agency row by row, so confirm the hunt you mean to apply for before you count on a number.
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- UDWR Hunt Boundaries — boundary descriptions from the Hunt Planner boundary layer — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, UDWR's private-land note for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
- UDWR DWR_Hunt_Boundaries_combined feature service — all 687 published hunt boundaries, including the CWMUs — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24