Unit Cache, Meadowville
Utah Hunting Guide — Elk
Unit Cache, Meadowville lies in Rich County and covers about 287 square miles. Ground runs from 6,160 to 7,771 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 Cache, Meadowville
Unit Cache, Meadowville lies in Rich County and covers about 287 square miles. Ground runs from 6,160 to 7,771 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 Cache, Meadowville
UDWR draws an exact line around unit Cache, Meadowville and says nothing about where the elk stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Rich County. It runs to about 287 square miles.
What bounds unit Cache, Meadowville
UDWR describes unit Cache, Meadowville in Rich County by a boundary walked in full in its hunting district legal descriptions, which is the document to check before you cross a line. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Monument Peak, Strawberry Ridge and Cutoff Ridge
Named high points inside the unit include Monument Peak at 8,220 feet, Strawberry Ridge at 8,086 feet, Cutoff Ridge at 7,897 feet, Long Ridge at 7,881 feet and Lewis Ridge at 7,812 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: Allan Hollow, Woodruff Pastures and Dry Basin
Below them sit Allan Hollow at 6,908 feet, Woodruff Pastures at 6,879 feet, Dry Basin at 6,872 feet, Pole Fork at 6,832 feet and Crawford Canyon at 6,798 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.
Water: Cutoff Canyon Spring, Beaver Pond Spring and Longhurst Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 928 mapped stream reaches, 7 lakes, 47 stock tanks and 72 springs. Named sources include Cutoff Canyon Spring, Beaver Pond Spring, Longhurst Spring, Willow Spring, Hawk Spring and Dry Canyon 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 6,160 feet to 7,771 feet, averaging 6,884 — not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.
Unit Cache, Meadowville terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 6,160–7,771 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,884 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 286.6 sq mi inside the boundary.
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
- 47 tanks
- 72 springs
- 928 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: Monument Peak (8,220 ft), Cutoff Ridge (7,897 ft), Long Ridge (7,881 ft), Twin Peaks (7,682 ft)
Holding ground: Woodruff Pastures (6,879 ft), Dry Basin (6,872 ft), Pole Fork (6,832 ft), Cutoff Canyon Spring, Longhurst 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 Cache, Meadowville
Elk Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Cache, Meadowville 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) | 14 | 55 | 25.5% | 12 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 2 | 12 | 16.7% | 12 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 6 | 9 | 66.7% | 5 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 13 | 7.7% | 5 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 10 | 13 | 76.9% | 6 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 13 | 7.7% | 6 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 13 | 56 | 23.2% | 16 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 2 | 11 | 18.2% | 16 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (resident) | 1 | 22 | 4.5% | — |
| Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | — |
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 Cache, Meadowville, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 113 applicants for 4 licences, 3.5% drawn, 21 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 43 applicants for 1 licences, 2.3% drawn, 21 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Multi-season, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 22 applicants for 1 licences, 4.5% drawn, no bonus points needed
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 13 applicants for 1 licences, 7.7% drawn, 5 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 3 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