Unit Kaiparowits, West
Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep
Unit Kaiparowits, West lies in Garfield and Kane counties and covers about 1,609 square miles. Ground runs from 4,247 to 7,651 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, West
Unit Kaiparowits, West lies in Garfield and Kane counties and covers about 1,609 square miles. Ground runs from 4,247 to 7,651 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, West
UDWR draws an exact line around unit Kaiparowits, West and says nothing about where the bighorn sheep stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Garfield and Kane counties. It runs to about 1,609 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Johnson Canyon, Cottonwood Canyon and Smoky Mountain
UDWR draws unit Kaiparowits, West in Garfield and Kane counties with a boundary that runs on Johnson Canyon, Cottonwood Canyon and Smoky Mountain, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Canaan Peak, Death Ridge and Deer Range
Named high points inside the unit include Canaan Peak at 9,302 feet, Death Ridge at 7,956 feet, Deer Range at 7,444 feet, Deer Range Point at 7,426 feet and Timber Mountain at 7,426 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: Camp Flat, Liston Flat and Cherry Flat
Below them sit Camp Flat at 7,085 feet, Liston Flat at 7,046 feet, Cherry Flat at 6,758 feet, Mud Spring Canyon at 6,614 feet and Bullrush Hollow at 6,523 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: First Point Spring, Mossy Dell Spring and Horse Spring
Named sources include First Point Spring, Mossy Dell Spring, Horse Spring, Adams Springs, Sand Spring and White House 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 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 4,247 feet to 7,651 feet, averaging 5,815 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Kaiparowits, West terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Canaan Peak (9,302 ft), Death Ridge (7,956 ft), Deer Range (7,444 ft), Timber Mountain (7,426 ft)
Holding ground: Canaan Bottom (7,861 ft), Bull Flat (7,667 ft), Lonesome Pine Flat (7,551 ft), First Point Spring, Mossy Dell 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 Bighorn Sheep in Unit Kaiparowits, West
Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit Kaiparowits, West 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) | 5 | 851 | 0.6% | 27 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (nonresident) | 1 | 3,785 | 0.0% | 27 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 4 | 647 | 0.6% | 28 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 2,635 | 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, West, 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: 2,635 applicants for 1 licences, 0% drawn, 28 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 647 applicants for 4 licences, 0.6% 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