Unit Box Elder, Pilot Mtn
Utah Hunting Guide — Elk
Unit Box Elder, Pilot Mtn lies in Box Elder and Tooele counties and covers about 1,337 square miles. Ground runs from 4,218 to 7,256 feet. UDWR bounds it by Nevada laws and Bonneville Salt Flats among others. 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, Pilot Mtn
Unit Box Elder, Pilot Mtn lies in Box Elder and Tooele counties and covers about 1,337 square miles. Ground runs from 4,218 to 7,256 feet. UDWR bounds it by Nevada laws and Bonneville Salt Flats among others. 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, Pilot Mtn
UDWR's material on unit Box Elder, Pilot Mtn stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Box Elder and Tooele counties. It runs to about 1,337 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Nevada laws, Bonneville Salt Flats and Wells
UDWR draws unit Box Elder, Pilot Mtn in Box Elder and Tooele counties with a boundary that runs on I-80, and on Nevada laws, Bonneville Salt Flats and Wells, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Bald Eagle Mountain, Graham Peak and Silver Island Mountains
Named high points inside the unit include Bald Eagle Mountain at 8,009 feet, Graham Peak at 7,510 feet, Silver Island Mountains at 7,510 feet, Silver Island at 7,510 feet and Mineral Mountain at 7,459 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: Leppy Pass, Dairy Canyon and Lost Canyon
Below them sit Leppy Pass at 4,862 feet, Dairy Canyon at 4,633 feet, Lost Canyon at 4,629 feet, Dairy Canyon at 4,622 feet and Campbell Canyon at 4,602 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
Water: Tunnel Spring Number 2, Tunnel Spring Number 1 and McLaughlin Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 30 mapped stream reaches, 1 lakes, 8 stock tanks and 19 springs. Named sources include Tunnel Spring Number 2, Tunnel Spring Number 1, McLaughlin Spring, Indian Spring, South Patterson Spring and Owl 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 4,218 feet to 7,256 feet, averaging 4,719 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Box Elder, Pilot Mtn terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,218–7,256 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,719 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 1,336.6 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
- 8 tanks
- 19 springs
- 30 stream segments
- 1 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: Bald Eagle Mountain (8,009 ft), Graham Peak (7,510 ft), Mineral Mountain (7,459 ft), Jenkins Peak (7,240 ft)
Holding ground: Patterson Pass (6,869 ft), Birch Canyon (5,253 ft), Leppy Pass (4,862 ft), Tunnel Spring Number 2, McLaughlin 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, Pilot Mtn
Elk Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Box Elder, Pilot 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.
Elk Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 9 | 367 | 2.5% | 11 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 160 | 0.6% | 11 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 3 | 21 | 14.3% | 9 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 9 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 9 | 355 | 2.5% | 26 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 136 | 0.7% | 26 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (resident) | 4 | 60 | 6.7% | — |
| Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (nonresident) | 1 | 14 | 7.1% | — |
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, Pilot Mtn, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 355 applicants for 9 licences, 2.5% drawn, 26 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 136 applicants for 1 licences, 0.7% drawn, 26 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Antlerless, Antlerless, resident: 29 applicants for 4 licences, 13.8% drawn, no bonus points needed
- Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 21 applicants for 3 licences, 14.3% 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. There are 1 further season-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. 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