Unit Chalk Creek
Utah Hunting Guide — Moose, Mule Deer
Unit Chalk Creek lies in Duchesne County and covers about 616 square miles. Ground runs from 6,270 to 9,678 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 70%. 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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Moose Hunting in Unit Chalk Creek
Unit Chalk Creek lies in Duchesne County and covers about 616 square miles. Ground runs from 6,270 to 9,678 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 70%. 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 Shiras Moose in Unit Chalk Creek
UDWR draws an exact line around unit Chalk Creek and says nothing about where the Shiras moose stand inside it. 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 Duchesne County. It runs to about 616 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Pass Lake, Weber River and Weber Canyon
UDWR draws unit Chalk Creek in Duchesne County with a boundary that runs on I-84, I-80 and CR 2596, 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. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.
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. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.
Holding ground: Carrot Hollow, Coyote Hollow and Seven Tree Flat
Below them sit Carrot Hollow at 9,087 feet, Coyote Hollow at 9,079 feet, Seven Tree Flat at 7,586 feet, Whites Basin at 7,579 feet and Red Hole at 7,356 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
Water in this unit
The water inside the unit line comes to 1,916 mapped stream reaches, 28 lakes, 217 stock tanks and 27 springs. 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 6,270 feet to 9,678 feet, averaging 7,612 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Chalk Creek terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
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)
Holding ground: Reids Meadow (9,977 ft), Moffit Pass (9,970 ft), Gold Hill Pass (9,908 ft)
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 Shiras Moose in Unit Chalk Creek
Moose Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no Shiras moose row for unit Chalk Creek 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.
Moose Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 3 | 776 | 0.4% | 14 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 3 | 854 | 0.4% | 29 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 29 |
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 Shiras moose in unit Chalk Creek, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 854 applicants for 3 licences, 0.4% drawn, 29 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.
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