Utah Mule Deer Black Bear

Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich (Chalk Creek/East Canyon/Morgan-South Rich)

Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Black Bear

Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich lies in Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich and Salt Lake counties. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 20%. 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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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich

What UDWR publishes for unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich is a boundary, not a mule deer map. 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 Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich and Salt Lake counties.

The lines of the unit: Pass Lake, Weber River and Weber Canyon

UDWR draws unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich in Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich and Salt Lake counties with a boundary that runs on I-15, I-84 and I-80, and on Pass Lake, Weber River and Weber Canyon, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. 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: Mount Marsell, Moffit Peak and Humpy Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Mount Marsell at 11,309 feet, Moffit Peak at 10,994 feet, Humpy Peak at 10,838 feet, Windy Ridge at 10,768 feet and Gold Hill at 10,568 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.

Holding ground: Carrot Hollow, Coyote Hollow and Farmington Canyon

Below them sit Carrot Hollow at 9,087 feet, Coyote Hollow at 9,079 feet, Farmington Canyon at 8,991 feet, Pine Flat at 8,594 feet and City Creek Meadows at 8,277 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: William Spring, Pipe Spring and Hatch Spring

Named sources include William Spring, Pipe Spring, Hatch Spring, Sprout Spring, Cave Spring and Sugar Pine 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.

Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up · figures are for GMU Chalk Creek

The lay of it

6,270–9,678 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,612 ft ; peaks can run higher.
616.3 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

217 tanks
27 springs
1,916 stream segments
28 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: Mount Marsell (11,309 ft), Moffit Peak (10,994 ft), Gold Hill (10,568 ft), Thurston Peak (9,695 ft)

Holding ground: Reids Meadow (9,977 ft), Moffit Pass (9,970 ft), Gold Hill Pass (9,908 ft), William Spring, Sprout 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 Mule Deer in Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich at muzzleloader 20%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Grandview Peak, Elkhorn Divide and Lewis Peak

Take a position on one of Grandview Peak (9,392 ft), Elkhorn Divide (9,360 ft), Lewis Peak (9,286 ft) and Bountiful Peak (9,238 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

The way in: I-15, I-84 and I-80

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones UDWR draws the boundary with: I-15, I-84 and I-80. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Pick the edge nearest the country you mean to hunt and work in from it on foot, rather than driving the perimeter looking for a way through.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Mount Marsell, Moffit Peak, Gold Hill and Thurston Peak as places to see from, and Reids Meadow, Moffit Pass, Gold Hill Pass and William Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What we can't tell you

Getting in and staying out: unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich

Figures are for GMU Chalk Creek

Named routes and what they need

I 80 — 18.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 150 — 11.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Weber Canyon Road — 8.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
SR 32 — 5.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Yellow Creek Road — 5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Wahsatch Road — 4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Coalville — 13.8 mi · groceries, gear
Wanship — 16.2 mi · no services listed
Oakley — 16.9 mi · fuel, groceries
Henefer — 19.9 mi · fuel, groceries
Kamas — 20.9 mi · fuel, groceries

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site
Riverside Campground
Cedar Point Boat-in Campground
Old Church Campground
Cedar Point Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan37° / 13° · 1.3" precip
Aug87° / 48° · 0.9" precip
Sep78° / 39° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 30° · 1.5" precip
Nov49° / 22° · 1.4" precip
Dec37° / 14° · 1.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Utah rules that decide your day

Summarised from UDWR regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before official sunrise to half an hour after official sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Utah requires travel on existing roads and trails; there is no general off-road retrieval allowance. Plan a pack-out from anything you can't reach from an open route.

Tagging

Notch and attach the tag to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting protected wildlife is a crime.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a house, dwelling or other building without permission, and no shooting from a vehicle or across a road.

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

Muzzleloader20%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich 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.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	39	220	17.7%	12
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	4	12	33.3%	12

Data from 2022 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2022 draw recap for mule deer in unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 220 applicants for 39 licences, 17.7% drawn, 12 bonus points needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 12 applicants for 4 licences, 33.3% 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. 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.

Black Bear Hunting in Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich

Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich lies in Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich and Salt Lake counties. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear 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 Black Bear in Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich

What UDWR publishes for unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich is a boundary, not a black bear map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich and Salt Lake counties.

The lines of the unit: Pass Lake, Weber River and Weber Canyon

UDWR draws unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich in Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich and Salt Lake counties with a boundary that runs on I-15, I-84 and I-80, and on Pass Lake, Weber River and Weber Canyon, 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: Thurston Peak, Francis Peak and Snow Horse Ridge

Named high points inside the unit include Thurston Peak at 9,695 feet, Francis Peak at 9,518 feet, Snow Horse Ridge at 9,469 feet, Grandview Peak at 9,392 feet and Elkhorn Divide at 9,360 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears follow food, which in early autumn means oakbrush, chokecherry and serviceberry on south slopes.

Holding ground: Freds Hollow, Ranger Hollow and Weed Basin

Below them sit Freds Hollow at 8,181 feet, Ranger Hollow at 8,154 feet, Weed Basin at 8,076 feet, The Salt Box at 7,969 feet and Bluebell Flat at 7,962 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water: Negro Dan Spring, Chicken Spring and Halfway Spring

Named sources include Negro Dan Spring, Chicken Spring, Halfway Spring, Eagle Springs, Birch Springs and Willow 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.

Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up · figures are for GMU Chalk Creek

The lay of it

6,270–9,678 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,612 ft ; peaks can run higher.
616.3 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

217 tanks
27 springs
1,916 stream segments
28 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: Mount Marsell (11,309 ft), Moffit Peak (10,994 ft), Gold Hill (10,568 ft), Thurston Peak (9,695 ft)

Holding ground: Reids Meadow (9,977 ft), Moffit Pass (9,970 ft), Gold Hill Pass (9,908 ft), William Spring, Sprout 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 Black Bear in Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure for unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: find the berry crop first, then glass it morning and evening until something is in it.

Glassing from Durst Mountain, Porcupine Mountain and Porcupine Ridge

Take a position on one of Durst Mountain (9,233 ft), Porcupine Mountain (9,185 ft), Porcupine Ridge (9,185 ft) and Sessions Mountains (9,165 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

The way in: I-15, I-84 and I-80

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Mount Marsell, Moffit Peak, Gold Hill and Thurston Peak as places to see from, and Reids Meadow, Moffit Pass, Gold Hill Pass and William Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What we can't tell you

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. Settle access before the season rather than during it. Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it. We have no black bear success figure for this unit that survives checking against UDWR's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

Getting in and staying out: unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich

Figures are for GMU Chalk Creek

Named routes and what they need

I 80 — 18.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 150 — 11.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Weber Canyon Road — 8.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
SR 32 — 5.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Yellow Creek Road — 5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Wahsatch Road — 4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Coalville — 13.8 mi · groceries, gear
Wanship — 16.2 mi · no services listed
Oakley — 16.9 mi · fuel, groceries
Henefer — 19.9 mi · fuel, groceries
Kamas — 20.9 mi · fuel, groceries

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site
Riverside Campground
Cedar Point Boat-in Campground
Old Church Campground
Cedar Point Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan37° / 13° · 1.3" precip
Aug87° / 48° · 0.9" precip
Sep78° / 39° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 30° · 1.5" precip
Nov49° / 22° · 1.4" precip
Dec37° / 14° · 1.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Utah rules that decide your day

Summarised from UDWR regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before official sunrise to half an hour after official sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Utah requires travel on existing roads and trails; there is no general off-road retrieval allowance. Plan a pack-out from anything you can't reach from an open route.

Tagging

Notch and attach the tag to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting protected wildlife is a crime.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a house, dwelling or other building without permission, and no shooting from a vehicle or across a road.

Black Bear: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Black Bear Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich 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.

Black Bear Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident)	6	88	6.8%	15

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

UDWR's 2024 draw recap for black bear in unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 37 applicants for 5 licences, 13.5% drawn, 18 bonus points needed

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

USFS developed and dispersed camping on Uinta-Wasatch-Cache.

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Water

Moderate — streams and springs, especially in Chalk Creek.

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Road Conditions

Paved I-80, I-84, and US-89 corridors; interior is USFS and ranch-maintained.

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Terrain Difficulty

Moderate — foothill mountain terrain with some steep canyons.

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Hunting Pressure

Moderate — proximity to the Wasatch Front draws hunters.

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Weather

Classic Wasatch fall — cold mornings, possible snow by late rifle.

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Cell Service

Workable along highway corridors; thin in drainages.

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Nearest Town

Morgan, Coalville, and Randolph.

Note: Access planning is critical — checkerboard ownership rewards hunters who map land status before the season.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich?

Unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich lies in Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich and Salt Lake counties. UDWR draws unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich with a boundary that runs on I-15, I-84 and I-80, and on Pass Lake, Weber River and Weber Canyon, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich at muzzleloader 20% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Can you hunt unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich on public land?

What is the black bear success rate in unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich?

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit Chalk Creek/east Canyon/morgan-south Rich on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

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