Unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns (Nebo/San Pitch Mtns)
Utah Hunting Guide — Elk
Unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns lies in Juab, Millard, Sanpete, Sevier and Utah counties and covers about 965 square miles. Ground runs from 5,181 to 10,179 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 Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns
Unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns lies in Juab, Millard, Sanpete, Sevier and Utah counties and covers about 965 square miles. Ground runs from 5,181 to 10,179 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 Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns
UDWR's material on unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk live. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Juab, Millard, Sanpete, Sevier and Utah counties. It runs to about 965 square miles.
What bounds unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns
UDWR draws unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns in Juab, Millard, Sanpete, Sevier and Utah counties with a boundary that runs on I-15, and on Spanish Fork, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Mount Nebo, Wasatch Range and North Peak
Named high points inside the unit include Mount Nebo at 11,804 feet, Wasatch Range at 11,722 feet, North Peak at 11,075 feet, Bald Mountain at 10,815 feet and Loafer Ridge at 10,650 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.
Holding ground: Middle Basin, North Flat and Broad Canyon
Below them sit Middle Basin at 9,092 feet, North Flat at 8,576 feet, Broad Canyon at 8,369 feet, Left Fork Log Hollow at 8,275 feet and South Flat at 8,272 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: Rock Spring, Dipping Corral Spring and Minnie Simmons Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 761 mapped stream reaches, 15 lakes, 131 stock tanks and 82 springs. Named sources include Rock Spring, Dipping Corral Spring, Minnie Simmons Spring, Tidwell Spring, Bradley Springs and Cold Spring. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.
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 5,181 feet to 10,179 feet, averaging 6,795 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.
Unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Mount Nebo (11,804 ft), Bald Mountain (10,815 ft), Loafer Ridge (10,650 ft), Salt Creek Peak (9,976 ft)
Holding ground: North Basin (11,265 ft), North Flat (8,576 ft), Broad Canyon (8,369 ft), Rock Spring, Tidwell 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 Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns
Elk Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 4 | 12 | 33.3% | 2 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 7 | 14.3% | 2 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 2 | 149 | 1.3% | 11 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 2 | 60 | 3.3% | 10 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 11 | 171 | 6.4% | 14 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 43 | 2.3% | 14 |
Data from 2023 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2023 draw recap for elk in unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 827 applicants for 6 licences, 0.7% drawn, 12 bonus points needed
- Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 244 applicants for 17 licences, 7% drawn, 14 bonus points needed
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 171 applicants for 11 licences, 6.4% drawn, 14 bonus points needed
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 121 applicants for 1 licences, 0.8% drawn, 12 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 2 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