Unit Kaiparowits, East
Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep
Unit Kaiparowits, East lies in Garfield and Kane counties and covers about 1,000 square miles. Ground runs from 4,118 to 7,337 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success here as high as 72%. 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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Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit Kaiparowits, East
Unit Kaiparowits, East lies in Garfield and Kane counties and covers about 1,000 square miles. Ground runs from 4,118 to 7,337 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success here as high as 72%. 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 Bighorn Sheep in Unit Kaiparowits, East
What UDWR publishes for unit Kaiparowits, East is a boundary, not a bighorn sheep map. 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 Garfield and Kane counties. It runs to about 1,000 square miles.
What bounds unit Kaiparowits, East
UDWR draws unit Kaiparowits, East in Garfield and Kane counties with a boundary that runs on Smoky Mountain, 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: Fiftymile Mountain, Bull Ridge and Cougar Knoll
Named high points inside the unit include Fiftymile Mountain at 7,638 feet, Bull Ridge at 7,609 feet, Cougar Knoll at 7,606 feet, Corral Ridge at 7,579 feet and Steer Point at 7,545 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Sheep on lower country still need rock, and on a desert unit the rock is the whole hunt.
Holding ground: Georgie Hollow, Harry Colwes Draw and Pool Hollow
Below them sit Georgie Hollow at 7,277 feet, Harry Colwes Draw at 7,241 feet, Pool Hollow at 7,183 feet, Indian Gardens at 7,171 feet and Gates Draw at 7,105 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
Water: Cave Spring, Relishen Seep and Cottonwood Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 1,255 mapped stream reaches, 4 lakes, 21 stock tanks and 61 springs. Named sources include Cave Spring, Relishen Seep, Cottonwood Spring, Rock Spring, Harry Colwes Spring and Wiregrass 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 Private / Other 85% and BLM 15%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 4,118 feet to 7,337 feet, averaging 5,455 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Kaiparowits, East terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,118–7,337 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,455 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 1,000 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
Who owns the ground
- BLM — 15%
- Private / Other — 85%
Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 21 tanks
- 61 springs
- 1,255 stream segments
- 4 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: Fiftymile Mountain (7,638 ft), Steer Point (7,545 ft), Blondie Knoll (7,533 ft), Buck Ridge (7,436 ft)
Holding ground: Lake Draw (7,435 ft), Spencer Flat (7,299 ft), Pool Hollow (7,183 ft), Cave Spring, Relishen Seep
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 Bighorn Sheep in Unit Kaiparowits, East
Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit Kaiparowits, 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.
Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (resident) | 7 | 844 | 0.8% | 20 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (nonresident) | 1 | 2,998 | 0.0% | 20 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 9 | 1,130 | 0.8% | 28 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 2 | 4,537 | 0.0% | 28 |
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 bighorn sheep in unit Kaiparowits, 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, nonresident: 4,537 applicants for 2 licences, 0% drawn, 28 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 1,130 applicants for 9 licences, 0.8% drawn, 28 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