Unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek
Utah Hunting Guide — Elk
Unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek lies in Box Elder County and covers about 874 square miles. Ground runs from 4,581 to 8,354 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 28%. 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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Elk Hunting in Unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek
Unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek lies in Box Elder County and covers about 874 square miles. Ground runs from 4,581 to 8,354 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 28%. 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 Elk in Unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek
What UDWR publishes for unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek is a boundary, not a elk map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Box Elder County. It runs to about 874 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Raft River, Dove Creek and Dove Creek Pass
UDWR draws unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek in Box Elder County with a boundary that runs on Raft River, Dove Creek and Dove Creek Pass, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.
High ground inside the line: Grouse Creek Mountains, Red Butte and Twin Peaks
Named high points inside the unit include Grouse Creek Mountains at 8,985 feet, Red Butte at 8,985 feet, Twin Peaks at 8,570 feet, Ingham Peak at 8,471 feet and Dove Creek Mountains at 8,381 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.
Holding ground: Deans Pass, Pipe Spring Gulch and Poison Canyon
Below them sit Deans Pass at 6,754 feet, Pipe Spring Gulch at 6,728 feet, Poison Canyon at 6,711 feet, Dry Canyon Basin at 6,698 feet and Marble Canyon at 6,687 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.
Water: Willow Spring, Clay Spring and Chambers Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 39 mapped stream reaches, 5 lakes, 39 stock tanks and 31 springs. Named sources include Willow Spring, Clay Spring, Chambers Spring, Puckett Spring, Sheep Trail Spring and Chokecherry 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 National Forest 60%, Private / Other 32% 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 4,581 feet to 8,354 feet, averaging 5,946 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,581–8,354 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,946 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 874.2 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest — 60%
- State Trust — 8%
- Private / Other — 32%
Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 39 tanks
- 31 springs
- 39 stream segments
- 5 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: Grouse Creek Mountains (8,985 ft), Judd Mountain (7,858 ft), Dry Canyon Mountain (7,552 ft), Rocky Pass Peak (7,475 ft)
Holding ground: Ingham Pass (7,527 ft), Rocky Pass (6,907 ft), Dry Canyon Basin (6,698 ft), Willow Spring, Clay 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 Elk in Unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek
Elk Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek 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.
Elk Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 13 | 111 | 11.7% | 10 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 40 | 2.5% | 10 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 2 | 16 | 12.5% | 19 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 16 | 6.3% | 19 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 12 | 138 | 8.7% | 21 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 31 | 3.2% | 21 |
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 elk in unit Box Elder, Grouse Creek, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 195 applicants for 6 licences, 3.1% drawn, 20 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 59 applicants for 1 licences, 1.7% drawn, 20 bonus points needed
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 16 applicants for 2 licences, 12.5% drawn, 19 bonus points needed
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 16 applicants for 1 licences, 6.3% drawn, 19 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