Unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley
Utah Hunting Guide — Pronghorn
Unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley lies in Tooele County and covers about 452 square miles. Ground runs from 4,219 to 5,246 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit pronghorn 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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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley
Unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley lies in Tooele County and covers about 452 square miles. Ground runs from 4,219 to 5,246 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit pronghorn 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 Pronghorn in Unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley
UDWR's material on unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its pronghorn live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Tooele County. It runs to about 452 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Great Salt Lake and Training Range
UDWR draws unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley in Tooele County with a boundary that runs on I-80, and on Great Salt Lake and Training Range, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Black Mountain, Lakeside Mountains and Craner Peak
Named high points inside the unit include Black Mountain at 6,620 feet, Lakeside Mountains at 6,619 feet, Craner Peak at 6,619 feet, Grassy Mountains at 6,567 feet and Black Mountain at 6,566 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem.
Holding ground: Mountain Sheep Canyon, Peepstone Canyon and Right Fork Carter Canyon
Below them sit Mountain Sheep Canyon at 4,611 feet, Peepstone Canyon at 4,599 feet, Right Fork Carter Canyon at 4,541 feet, Monarch Canyon at 4,424 feet and Puddle Valley at 4,377 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: Government Well Number 82
The water inside the unit line comes to 4 mapped stream reaches and 7 lakes. 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 4,219 feet to 5,246 feet, averaging 4,587 — not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.
Unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,219–5,246 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,587 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 452 sq mi inside the boundary.
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 stream segments
- 7 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: Black Mountain (6,620 ft), Grassy Mountains (6,567 ft), Jedediah Mountain (5,828 ft)
Holding ground: Well Pass (4,937 ft), Wrathall Pass (4,723 ft), Craner Canyon (4,617 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 Pronghorn in Unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley
Pronghorn Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no pronghorn row for unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley 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.
Pronghorn Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 14 | 150 | 9.3% | 14 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 2 | 47 | 4.3% | 14 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 3 | 16 | 18.8% | 4 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 6 | 16.7% | 4 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 14 | 150 | 9.3% | 8 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 2 | 80 | 2.5% | 8 |
Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's draw recap has no pronghorn record we can tie to unit Box Elder, Puddle Valley. That usually means the licence is sold over the counter, is issued under a hunt code covering several units, or was not offered in the years we hold. Rather than estimate a point requirement, we leave it blank — check UDWR's own draw recap for the hunt code you mean to apply for.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
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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