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Unit Boulder/kaiparowits (Boulder/Kaiparowits)

Utah Hunting Guide — Bear, Elk

Unit Boulder/kaiparowits lies in Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties and covers about 5,346 square miles. Ground runs from 4,408 to 10,137 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. 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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91%
Public Land
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4,408–10,137 ft
Sampled elevation

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Bear Hunting in Unit Boulder/kaiparowits

Unit Boulder/kaiparowits lies in Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties and covers about 5,346 square miles. Ground runs from 4,408 to 10,137 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. 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 Black Bear in Unit Boulder/kaiparowits

What UDWR publishes for unit Boulder/kaiparowits is a boundary, not a black bear map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties. It runs to about 5,346 square miles.

What bounds unit Boulder/kaiparowits

UDWR draws unit Boulder/kaiparowits in Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties with a boundary that runs on Paria River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Bluebell Knoll, Boulder Mountain and Pinto Knoll

Named high points inside the unit include Bluebell Knoll at 11,324 feet, Boulder Mountain at 11,324 feet, Pinto Knoll at 11,123 feet, Lookout Peak at 11,119 feet and Bowns Point at 10,942 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears follow food, which in early autumn means oakbrush, chokecherry and serviceberry on south slopes.

Holding ground: West Boulder Draw, Broken Draw and Stink Draw

Below them sit West Boulder Draw at 10,874 feet, Broken Draw at 10,863 feet, Stink Draw at 10,821 feet, Oak Draw at 10,759 feet and Pleasant Creek Meadow at 10,721 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water: Billy Spring, Dipping Vat Spring and Lost Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 4,440 mapped stream reaches, 63 lakes, 711 stock tanks and 264 springs. Named sources include Billy Spring, Dipping Vat Spring, Lost Spring, Parker Springs, Cougar Spring and Jackass Spring. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.

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 National Forest 60%, Private / Other 17%, BLM 15% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 4,408 feet to 10,137 feet, averaging 6,611 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.

Unit Boulder/kaiparowits terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

  • 4,408–10,137 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,611 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
  • 5,345.5 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

  • National Forest — 60%
  • BLM — 15%
  • State Trust — 8%
  • Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

  • 711 tanks
  • 264 springs
  • 4,440 stream segments
  • 63 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Bluebell Knoll (11,324 ft), Pinto Knoll (11,123 ft), Lookout Peak (11,119 ft), Bowns Point (10,942 ft)

Holding ground: Donkey Meadows (11,224 ft), Riddle Flat (11,125 ft), Beef Meadows (11,074 ft), Billy Spring, Dipping Vat Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

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Bear Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit Boulder/kaiparowits 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.

Bear Draw Odds

SeasonTagsApplicantsDraw %Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident) 97911.4% 17
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident) 1128.3% 17

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2024 draw recap for black bear in unit Boulder/kaiparowits, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

  • Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 89 applicants for 27 licences, 30.3% drawn, 9 bonus points needed
  • Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, nonresident: 18 applicants for 2 licences, 11.1% drawn, 9 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.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Boulder/kaiparowits?
Unit Boulder/kaiparowits lies in Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties. UDWR draws unit Boulder/kaiparowits with a boundary that runs on Paria River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It covers about 5,346 square miles.
What is the black bear success rate in unit Boulder/kaiparowits?
UDWR publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit Boulder/kaiparowits on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.
Where do you stay and resupply for a unit Boulder/kaiparowits hunt?
The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit Boulder/kaiparowits are at Escalante, about 10 miles from the unit's centre, with Boulder at about 17 miles. There are also 127 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.
Can you hunt unit Boulder/kaiparowits on public land?
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. Settle access before you apply rather than after you draw.
What is the elk success rate in unit Boulder/kaiparowits?
UDWR publishes no elk success figure we can tie to unit Boulder/kaiparowits on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.

  1. 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
  2. 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