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Unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle (Dolores Triangle)

Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Elk

Unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle lies in Grand County and covers about 183 square miles. Ground runs from 4,249 to 6,210 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 25%. 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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91%
Public Land
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4,249–6,210 ft
Sampled elevation

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle

Unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle lies in Grand County and covers about 183 square miles. Ground runs from 4,249 to 6,210 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 25%. 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 La Sal, Dolores Triangle

UDWR draws an exact line around unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Grand County. It runs to about 183 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colorado River and Dolores River

UDWR has unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle Boundary begins at the Colorado River and the Utah-Colorado state line; south on this state line to the Dolores River; northwest along this river to the Colorado River; northeast along this river to the Utah-Colorado state line. Excludes all CWMUs. 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: Flatiron Hill, Steamboat Mesa and Snyder Mesa

Named high points inside the unit include Flatiron Hill at 6,710 feet, Steamboat Mesa at 6,681 feet, Snyder Mesa at 5,845 feet, Buckhorn Mesa at 5,507 feet and Scharf Mesa at 5,315 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.

Holding ground: Jones Canyon, Star Canyon and Marble Canyon

Below them sit Jones Canyon at 4,319 feet, Star Canyon at 4,294 feet, Marble Canyon at 4,282 feet, Buckhorn Draw at 4,159 feet and Hotel Bottom at 4,149 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 340 mapped stream reaches, 3 lakes, 28 stock tanks and 6 springs. 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 4,249 feet to 6,210 feet, averaging 5,152 — not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.

Unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

  • 4,249–6,210 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,152 ft ; peaks can run higher.
  • 182.7 sq mi inside the boundary.

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

  • 28 tanks
  • 6 springs
  • 340 stream segments
  • 3 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: Flatiron Hill (6,710 ft), Steamboat Mesa (6,681 ft), Snyder Mesa (5,845 ft), Buckhorn Mesa (5,507 ft)

Holding ground: Red Gap (5,893 ft), Spring Canyon (5,849 ft), The Slide (4,993 ft)

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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Mule Deer Success Rates

Archery16%
Rifle25%
Muzzleloader20%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle 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

SeasonTagsApplicantsDraw %Pts Req
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) 4864.7% 15
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) 000.0% 15
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) 116241.8% 25
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) 15330.2% 25
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) 41023.9% 20
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) 000.0% 20
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) 115072.2% 21
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) 14440.2% 21

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 La Sal, Dolores Triangle, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

  • Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 507 applicants for 11 licences, 2.2% drawn, 21 bonus points needed
  • Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 444 applicants for 1 licences, 0.2% drawn, 21 bonus points needed
  • Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 102 applicants for 4 licences, 3.9% drawn, 20 bonus points needed
  • Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 86 applicants for 4 licences, 4.7% drawn, 15 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

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle?
Unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle lies in Grand County. UDWR has unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle Boundary begins at the Colorado River and the Utah-Colorado state line; south on this state line to the Dolores River; northwest along this river to the Colorado River; northeast along this river to the Utah-Colorado state line. Excludes all CWMUs. It covers about 183 square miles.
What is the mule deer success rate in unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle?
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle at archery 16%, rifle 25% and muzzleloader 20% 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 La Sal, Dolores Triangle hunt?
The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle are at Castle Valley, about 24 miles from the unit's centre, with Mack at about 26 miles. There are also 2 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.
Can you hunt unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle on public land?
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 you apply rather than after you draw.
What is the elk success rate in unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle?
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit La Sal, Dolores Triangle at rifle 28% 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.

  1. 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
  2. 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