Utah Elk Black Bear

Unit Fillmore, Pahvant

Utah Hunting Guide — Elk, Black Bear

Unit Fillmore, Pahvant lies in Millard and Sevier counties and covers about 848 square miles. Ground runs from 5,051 to 9,042 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 Fillmore, Pahvant

Where to Find Elk in Unit Fillmore, Pahvant

What UDWR publishes for unit Fillmore, Pahvant is a boundary, not a elk map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Millard and Sevier counties. It runs to about 848 square miles.

What bounds unit Fillmore, Pahvant

UDWR has unit Fillmore, Pahvant Boundary begins at I-70 and I-15; north on I-15 to US-50 at Scipio; southeast on US-50 to Salina and US-89; south on US-89 to I-70; southwest on I-70 to I-15. EXCLUDES ALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST LANDS WITHIN THIS BOUNDARY. Excludes all CWMUs. 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: White Pine Peak, Mine Camp Peak and Pioneer Peak

Named high points inside the unit include White Pine Peak at 10,209 feet, Mine Camp Peak at 10,201 feet, Pioneer Peak at 10,102 feet, Sunset Peak at 10,080 feet and Jacks Peak at 10,055 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: Pauls Canyon, Rock Canyon and Al Gay Flat

Below them sit Pauls Canyon at 8,590 feet, Rock Canyon at 8,558 feet, Al Gay Flat at 8,403 feet, Little Flat at 8,290 feet and Paradise Canyon at 8,247 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water: Mud Spring, Leavitts Spring and Bear Hollow Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 71 mapped stream reaches, 2 lakes, 17 stock tanks and 2 springs. Named sources include Mud Spring, Leavitts Spring, Bear Hollow Spring, Big Spring, Staples Spring and Cottonwood 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 5,051 feet to 9,042 feet, averaging 6,982 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit Fillmore, Pahvant terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: White Pine Peak (10,209 ft), Pioneer Peak (10,102 ft), Sunset Peak (10,080 ft), Jacks Peak (10,055 ft)

Holding ground: Death Canyon (9,205 ft), Eagle Hollow (9,035 ft), The Devils Armchair (8,712 ft), Mud Spring, Leavitts 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 Fillmore, Pahvant

UDWR's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit Fillmore, Pahvant at archery 18%, rifle 28% and muzzleloader 22%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

Glassing from Teeples Ridge, Willow Creek Peak and Sand Rock Ridge

Take a position on one of Teeples Ridge (9,797 ft), Willow Creek Peak (9,764 ft), Sand Rock Ridge (9,508 ft) and Joseph Peak (9,322 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, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 71 mapped stream reaches and 17 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 80/50°F, Oct 66/38°F and Nov 51/28°F. Warm afternoons compress the hunting into the first and last hour, and make meat care the day's real problem rather than the shot. Precipitation runs about 0.9 in. in Sep, 1.3 in. in Oct and 1.2 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: I 70 / US 89 and I 15

I 70 / US 89, I 15 and I 70 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. FR 0102 needs clearance, and that is usually where the boot tracks thin out. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks White Pine Peak, Pioneer Peak, Sunset Peak and Jacks Peak as places to see from, and Death Canyon, Eagle Hollow, The Devils Armchair and Mud 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 a day here costs you

848 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Meadow, about 9 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 3,991 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

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.

Elk: 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. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

Archery18%

Rifle28%

Muzzleloader22%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Fillmore, Pahvant 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)	13	16	81.3%	6
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	9	22.2%	6
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	20	330	6.1%	13
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	90	2.2%	13
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	12	105	11.4%	21
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	81	1.2%	21
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	22	298	7.4%	27
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	3	78	3.8%	27
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (resident)	3	143	2.1%	28
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	28
Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (resident)	36	357	10.1%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (nonresident)	4	27	14.8%	—

Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2025 draw recap for elk in unit Fillmore, Pahvant, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 724 applicants for 8 licences, 1.1% drawn, 28 bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 338 applicants for 1 licences, 0.3% drawn, 28 bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Antlerless, Antlerless, resident: 240 applicants for 36 licences, 15% drawn, no bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 166 applicants for 2 licences, 1.2% drawn, 17 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 5 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.

Black Bear Hunting in Unit Fillmore, Pahvant

Unit Fillmore, Pahvant lies in Millard and Sevier counties and covers about 848 square miles. Ground runs from 5,051 to 9,042 feet. 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 Fillmore, Pahvant

UDWR's material on unit Fillmore, Pahvant stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its black bear 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 Millard and Sevier counties. It runs to about 848 square miles.

What bounds unit Fillmore, Pahvant

UDWR has unit Fillmore, Pahvant Boundary begins at I-70 and I-15; north on I-15 to US-50 at Scipio; southeast on US-50 to Salina and US-89; south on US-89 to I-70; southwest on I-70 to I-15. EXCLUDES ALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST LANDS WITHIN THIS BOUNDARY. Excludes all CWMUs. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Mount Catherine, Blue Ridge and Coffee Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Mount Catherine at 10,017 feet, Blue Ridge at 9,995 feet, Coffee Peak at 9,971 feet, Teeples Ridge at 9,797 feet and Willow Creek Peak at 9,764 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: Gardner Hollow, Indian Flat and Wills Hole

Below them sit Gardner Hollow at 8,223 feet, Indian Flat at 8,180 feet, Wills Hole at 8,172 feet, Lone Pine Canyon at 8,152 feet and Bear Hollow at 8,069 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: Lone Pine Spring, Indian Springs and Libbs Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 71 mapped stream reaches, 2 lakes, 17 stock tanks and 2 springs. Named sources include Lone Pine Spring, Indian Springs, Libbs Spring, First Creek Spring, Watercrest Spring and Teeples 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

Unit Fillmore, Pahvant terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: White Pine Peak (10,209 ft), Pioneer Peak (10,102 ft), Sunset Peak (10,080 ft), Jacks Peak (10,055 ft)

Holding ground: Death Canyon (9,205 ft), Eagle Hollow (9,035 ft), The Devils Armchair (8,712 ft), Mud Spring, Leavitts Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

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How to Hunt Black Bear in Unit Fillmore, Pahvant

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure for unit Fillmore, Pahvant 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 Willow Creek Ridge, Pharo Ridge and Indian Peak

Take a position on one of Willow Creek Ridge (9,251 ft), Pharo Ridge (9,225 ft), Indian Peak (9,189 ft) and South Ridge (9,130 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

Water against feed

There are 71 mapped stream reaches and 17 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Sitting water works where you can see fresh tracks going in, and nowhere else.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: I 70 / US 89 and I 15

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks White Pine Peak, Pioneer Peak, Sunset Peak and Jacks Peak as places to see from, and Death Canyon, Eagle Hollow, The Devils Armchair and Mud 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 a day here costs you

848 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Meadow, about 9 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 3,991 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

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 Fillmore, Pahvant 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)	1	16	6.3%	3

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

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UDWR's 2024 draw recap for black bear in unit Fillmore, Pahvant, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 16 applicants for 1 licences, 6.3% drawn, 6 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

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

15 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Maple Hollow Rec Site, Max Reid (Paiute) Trailhead and Copley's Cove Campground.

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Road Conditions

I 70 / US 89, I 15 and I 70 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 67 mi paved, 10 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

5,051–9,042 ft, averaging 6,982. Enough relief to separate summer from winter range.

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Hunting Pressure

Our land-status read for this unit is approximate, so treat any pressure estimate from it with suspicion and check a current ownership layer.

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Weather

Season normals: Sep 80/50°F, 0.9 in.; Oct 66/38°F, 1.3 in.; Nov 51/28°F, 1.2 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 21%, AT&T 14%, T-Mobile 7% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Meadow (9 mi), Fillmore (9 mi), Kanosh (11 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Fillmore, Pahvant?

Unit Fillmore, Pahvant lies in Millard and Sevier counties. UDWR has unit Fillmore, Pahvant Boundary begins at I-70 and I-15; north on I-15 to US-50 at Scipio; southeast on US-50 to Salina and US-89; south on US-89 to I-70; southwest on I-70 to I-15. EXCLUDES ALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST LANDS WITHIN THIS BOUNDARY. Excludes all CWMUs. It covers about 848 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit Fillmore, Pahvant?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit Fillmore, Pahvant at archery 18%, rifle 28% and muzzleloader 22% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit Fillmore, Pahvant hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit Fillmore, Pahvant are at Meadow, about 9 miles from the unit's centre, with Fillmore at about 9 miles. There are also 15 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

Can you hunt unit Fillmore, Pahvant on public land?

What is the black bear success rate in unit Fillmore, Pahvant?

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit Fillmore, Pahvant 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