Unit Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn
Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep
Unit Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn lies in Box Elder County and covers about 1,802 square miles. Ground runs from 4,203 to 5,632 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 Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn
Unit Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn lies in Box Elder County and covers about 1,802 square miles. Ground runs from 4,203 to 5,632 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 Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn
UDWR draws an exact line around unit Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn and says nothing about where the bighorn sheep stand inside it. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Box Elder County. It runs to about 1,802 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Great Salt Lake, Stansbury Island East Fork and Newfoundland Mtn Range
UDWR draws unit Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn in Box Elder County with a boundary that runs on I-80, and on Great Salt Lake, Stansbury Island East Fork, Newfoundland Mtn Range and Big Pass, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Newfoundland Mountains, Desert Peak and Castle Rock
Named high points inside the unit include Newfoundland Mountains at 6,980 feet, Desert Peak at 6,968 feet, Castle Rock at 6,631 feet, Black Mountain at 6,620 feet and Lakeside Mountains at 6,619 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: Wrathall Pass, Vindicator Canyon and Craner Canyon
Below them sit Wrathall Pass at 4,723 feet, Vindicator Canyon at 4,694 feet, Craner Canyon at 4,617 feet, Mountain Sheep Canyon at 4,611 feet and Sedal Valley at 4,604 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
Water: Government Well Number 82
The water inside the unit line comes to 10 mapped stream reaches, 15 lakes, 4 stock tanks and 6 springs. Named sources include Government Well Number 82. 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 4,203 feet to 5,632 feet, averaging 4,394 — not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.
Unit Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,203–5,632 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,394 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 1,801.7 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
Who owns the ground
- Private / Other — 100%
Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 4 tanks
- 6 springs
- 10 stream segments
- 15 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: Newfoundland Mountains (6,980 ft), Castle Rock (6,631 ft), Black Mountain (6,620 ft), Grassy Mountains (6,567 ft)
Holding ground: Big Pass (4,939 ft), Well Pass (4,937 ft), Fixit Pass (4,725 ft), Government Well Number 82
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 Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn
Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn 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 | 697 | 0.7% | 12 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (nonresident) | 1 | 1,588 | 0.1% | 12 |
| Archery — Limited Entry ram only (resident) | 3 | 198 | 1.5% | 16 |
| Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 2 | 211 | 0.9% | 21 |
| Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 21 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 3 | 651 | 0.5% | 23 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 2,689 | 0.0% | 23 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry antlerless (resident) | 4 | 1,344 | 0.3% | 5 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry antlerless (nonresident) | 1 | 271 | 0.4% | 5 |
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 Box Elder, Newfoundland Mtn, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Antlerless, resident: 1,344 applicants for 4 licences, 0.3% drawn, 5 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 749 applicants for 3 licences, 0.4% drawn, 24 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Antlerless, nonresident: 271 applicants for 1 licences, 0.4% drawn, 5 bonus points needed
- Archery, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 211 applicants for 2 licences, 0.9% drawn, 21 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