Unit High Uintas East
Utah Hunting Guide — Mountain Goat
Unit High Uintas East lies in Duchesne, Summit and Uintah counties and covers about 501 square miles. Ground runs from 7,619 to 11,771 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mountain goat success here as high as 65%. 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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Mountain Goat Hunting in Unit High Uintas East
Unit High Uintas East lies in Duchesne, Summit and Uintah counties and covers about 501 square miles. Ground runs from 7,619 to 11,771 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mountain goat success here as high as 65%. 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 Mountain Goat in Unit High Uintas East
UDWR draws an exact line around unit High Uintas East and says nothing about where the mountain goat 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, Summit and Uintah counties. It runs to about 501 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Uinta River, Painter Basin and Gunsight Pass
UDWR draws unit High Uintas East in Duchesne, Summit and Uintah counties with a boundary that runs on USFS Trail 044, USFS Trail 068, USFS Trail 117 and USFS Trail 019, and on Uinta River, Painter Basin, Gunsight Pass and Henrys Fork River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Gilbert Peak, South Burro Peak and North Burro Peak
Named high points inside the unit include Gilbert Peak at 13,452 feet, South Burro Peak at 12,719 feet, North Burro Peak at 12,627 feet, Kabell Ridge at 11,895 feet and Thompson Peak at 11,778 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Goats live above the trees on cliff and talus and come down only when weather makes them.
Holding ground: Thompson Pass, Deadhorse Park and McCoy Park
Below them sit Thompson Pass at 11,139 feet, Deadhorse Park at 10,840 feet, McCoy Park at 10,550 feet, Bear Park at 10,526 feet and Weyman Park at 10,521 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: Woodard Spring, Buffalo Spring and Rock Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 139 mapped stream reaches, 68 lakes, 188 stock tanks and 55 springs. Named sources include Woodard Spring, Buffalo Spring, Rock Spring, Elk Spring, Blank Spring and Russell Spring Number 3. 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 7,619 feet to 11,771 feet, averaging 9,809 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.
Unit High Uintas East terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 7,619–11,771 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 9,809 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
- 500.6 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
- 188 tanks
- 55 springs
- 139 stream segments
- 68 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: Gilbert Peak (13,452 ft), South Burro Peak (12,719 ft), Kabell Ridge (11,895 ft), Thompson Peak (11,778 ft)
Holding ground: North Pole Pass (12,163 ft), Gunsight Pass (11,887 ft), Gilbert Creek Basin (11,450 ft), Woodard Spring, Buffalo 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 Mountain Goat in Unit High Uintas East
Mountain Goat Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mountain goat row for unit High Uintas East 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.
Mountain Goat Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident) | 1 | 130 | 0.8% | 12 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 934 | 0.1% | 12 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 2 | 122 | 1.6% | 20 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 20 |
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 mountain goat in unit High Uintas East, 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: 122 applicants for 2 licences, 1.6% drawn, 20 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