Utah Moose Mule Deer

Unit Kamas

Utah Hunting Guide — Moose, Mule Deer

Unit Kamas lies in Summit and Wasatch counties and covers about 342 square miles. Ground runs from 6,362 to 10,111 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 Kamas

Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit Kamas

UDWR's material on unit Kamas stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its Shiras moose live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Summit and Wasatch counties. It runs to about 342 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Weber Canyon, Weber River and Pass Lake

UDWR draws unit Kamas in Summit and Wasatch counties with a boundary that runs on I-80, and on Weber Canyon, Weber River, Pass Lake and Provo River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. 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: Bald Mountain, Reids Peak and Mount Watson

Named high points inside the unit include Bald Mountain at 11,947 feet, Reids Peak at 11,668 feet, Mount Watson at 11,514 feet, Notch Mountain at 11,257 feet and Haystack Mountain at 10,982 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.

Holding ground: Norway Flat, Lambert Meadow and Mud Lake Flat

Below them sit Norway Flat at 9,596 feet, Lambert Meadow at 9,516 feet, Mud Lake Flat at 9,401 feet, Slader Basin at 9,289 feet and Bear Basin at 8,872 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Water: Mud Springs and Homer Spring

Named sources include Mud Springs and Homer 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 6,362 feet to 10,111 feet, averaging 8,171 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit Kamas terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Bald Mountain (11,947 ft), Mount Watson (11,514 ft), Notch Mountain (11,257 ft), Haystack Mountain (10,982 ft)

Holding ground: The Notch (10,623 ft), Hells Kitchen (10,129 ft), The Deli Dell (9,915 ft), Mud Springs, Homer 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 Kamas

UDWR's own harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit Kamas at rifle 70%. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: walk the willow bottoms slowly at first and last light and look for fresh browse before you look for the animal.

Glassing from Pitt and Page Hill, Slader Ridge and The West Hills

Take a position on one of Pitt and Page Hill (10,202 ft), Slader Ridge (10,186 ft), The West Hills (7,888 ft) and Hogs Back (6,639 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late September bulls answer a cow call near water.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 74/41°F, Oct 59/31°F and Nov 45/23°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 1.5 in. in Sep, 1.7 in. in Oct and 1.4 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Bald Mountain, Mount Watson, Notch Mountain and Haystack Mountain as places to see from, and The Notch, Hells Kitchen, The Deli Dell and Mud Springs 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

342 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 3,749 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Leave the truck earlier than you want to and you will hunt the best half-hour of the day.

What we can't tell you

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. Settle access before the season rather than during it. Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

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.

Moose: where to put the shot

Broadside, behind the shoulder and a third up. Moose look slow to react — the first shot has to count.

Shots to refuse

Where it falls decides your next two days. Avoid shots that drop a moose in water or a bog.
A .30-06 class cartridge minimum, with a bullet built for heavy bone.

Plan the carry: roughly 350– 500 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — four or more large coolers, or a processor. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Moose Success Rates

Rifle70%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no Shiras moose row for unit Kamas 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)	4	956	0.4%	14
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident)	5	1,036	0.5%	28
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	28

Data from 2023 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2025 draw recap for Shiras moose in unit Kamas, 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: 1,036 applicants for 5 licences, 0.5% 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.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit Kamas

Unit Kamas lies in Summit and Wasatch counties and covers about 342 square miles. Ground runs from 6,362 to 10,111 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 20%. 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 Mule Deer in Unit Kamas

UDWR draws an exact line around unit Kamas and says nothing about where the mule deer 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 Summit and Wasatch counties. It runs to about 342 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Weber Canyon, Weber River and Pass Lake

High ground inside the line: Holiday, Hoyt Peak and Castle Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Holiday at 10,396 feet, Hoyt Peak at 10,222 feet, Castle Peak at 10,221 feet, Pitt and Page Hill at 10,202 feet and Slader Ridge at 10,186 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.

Holding ground: Paulsin Basin, Spring Canyon and Box Canyon

Below them sit Paulsin Basin at 8,743 feet, Spring Canyon at 8,099 feet, Box Canyon at 7,960 feet, Silks Basin at 7,893 feet and Broad Canyon at 7,705 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: Mud Springs and Homer Spring

Named sources include Mud Springs and Homer 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 Kamas terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Bald Mountain (11,947 ft), Mount Watson (11,514 ft), Notch Mountain (11,257 ft), Haystack Mountain (10,982 ft)

Holding ground: The Notch (10,623 ft), Hells Kitchen (10,129 ft), The Deli Dell (9,915 ft), Mud Springs, Homer 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 Mule Deer in Unit Kamas

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Kamas at muzzleloader 20%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Bald Mountain, Reids Peak and Mount Watson

Take a position on one of Bald Mountain (11,947 ft), Reids Peak (11,668 ft), Mount Watson (11,514 ft) and Notch Mountain (11,257 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. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

A first plan from the pins on this page

What a day here costs you

342 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 3,749 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.

What we can't tell you

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. Settle access before the season rather than during it. Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

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.

Mule Deer: 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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Mule Deer Success Rates

Muzzleloader20%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Kamas 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.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	161	162	99.4%	—
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	5	5	100.0%	—
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	183	294	62.2%	1
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	11	11	100.0%	1
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	169	387	43.7%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	20	29	69.0%	—

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 mule deer in unit Kamas, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 565 applicants for 312 licences, 55.2% drawn, no bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 294 applicants for 183 licences, 62.2% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 25 applicants for 5 licences, 20% drawn, 5 bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 24 applicants for 23 licences, 95.8% drawn, no 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 2 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.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

6 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Lilly Lake Campground, Ledgefork and Pine Valley North Wasatch Cach.

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Road Conditions

Roughly 0 mi paved, 0 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

6,362–10,111 ft, averaging 8,171. 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 74/41°F, 1.5 in.; Oct 59/31°F, 1.7 in.; Nov 45/23°F, 1.4 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 15%, AT&T 10%, T-Mobile 5% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Kamas?

Unit Kamas lies in Summit and Wasatch counties. UDWR draws unit Kamas with a boundary that runs on I-80, and on Weber Canyon, Weber River, Pass Lake and Provo River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It covers about 342 square miles.

What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit Kamas?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit Kamas at rifle 70% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Can you hunt unit Kamas on public land?

What is the mule deer success rate in unit Kamas?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Kamas at muzzleloader 20% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

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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