Unit East Canyon, Morgan-summit (East Canyon, Morgan-Summit)
Utah Hunting Guide — Moose
Unit East Canyon, Morgan-summit lies in Morgan and Summit counties and covers about 378 square miles. Ground runs from 5,478 to 8,283 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 East Canyon, Morgan-summit
Unit East Canyon, Morgan-summit lies in Morgan and Summit counties and covers about 378 square miles. Ground runs from 5,478 to 8,283 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 East Canyon, Morgan-summit
UDWR draws an exact line around unit East Canyon, Morgan-summit 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 Morgan and Summit counties. It runs to about 378 square miles.
What bounds unit East Canyon, Morgan-summit
UDWR draws unit East Canyon, Morgan-summit in Morgan and Summit counties with a boundary that runs on I-80 and I-84, and on Salt Lake, 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, Lewis Peak at 9,286 feet and Swallow Rocks at 8,373 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose need standing water and willow, so on dry country they are tied to the few drainages that hold both.
Holding ground: Basin Canyon, Cataract Canyon and The Narrows
Below them sit Basin Canyon at 6,834 feet, Cataract Canyon at 6,661 feet, The Narrows at 6,646 feet, Kimball Canyon at 6,569 feet and Road Canyon at 6,567 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.
Water: Dixie Hollow Springs, Tom Porter Springs and Jack Beard Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 328 mapped stream reaches, 22 lakes, 143 stock tanks and 1 springs. Named sources include Dixie Hollow Springs, Tom Porter Springs and Jack Beard 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 5,478 feet to 8,283 feet, averaging 6,668 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit East Canyon, Morgan-summit terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 5,478–8,283 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,668 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 377.6 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
- 143 tanks
- 1 springs
- 328 stream segments
- 22 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: Thurston Peak (9,695 ft), Francis Peak (9,518 ft), Gold Ridge (8,361 ft), The Hogsback (7,924 ft)
Holding ground: Little Emigration Canyon (6,027 ft), Dead Ox Canyon (5,747 ft), Deer Fly Hollow (5,719 ft), Dixie Hollow Springs, Jack Beard 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 Shiras Moose in Unit East Canyon, Morgan-summit
Moose Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no Shiras moose row for unit East Canyon, Morgan-summit 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 | 277 | 1.1% | 10 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 4 | 246 | 1.6% | 27 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 27 |
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 East Canyon, Morgan-summit, 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: 246 applicants for 4 licences, 1.6% drawn, 27 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.
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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