Unit La Sal
Utah Hunting Guide — Black Bear
Unit La Sal lies in Grand and San Juan counties. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. 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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Black Bear Hunting in Unit La Sal
Unit La Sal lies in Grand and San Juan counties. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. 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 Black Bear in Unit La Sal
UDWR draws an exact line around unit La Sal and says nothing about where the black bear 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 Grand and San Juan counties.
The lines of the unit: Green River, Colorado River and Kane Springs Creek
UDWR draws unit La Sal in Grand and San Juan counties with a boundary that runs on I-70, and on Green River, Colorado River and Kane Springs Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.
High ground inside the line: Mount Peale, Mount Mellenthin and Mount Tukuhnikivatz
Named high points inside the unit include Mount Peale at 12,689 feet, Mount Mellenthin at 12,630 feet, Mount Tukuhnikivatz at 12,456 feet, Mount Waas at 12,292 feet and Manns Peak at 12,250 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears follow food, which in early autumn means oakbrush, chokecherry and serviceberry on south slopes.
Holding ground: Gold Basin, Miners Basin and Wilcox Flat
Below them sit Gold Basin at 10,066 feet, Miners Basin at 9,946 feet, Wilcox Flat at 9,341 feet, Dark Canyon at 9,009 feet and Carpenter Basin at 8,707 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.
Water: Cabin Spring, Cold Spring and Freshwater Spring
Named sources include Cabin Spring, Cold Spring, Freshwater Spring, Coyote Spring, King Bottom Spring and Salt 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.
Unit La Sal terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Mount Peale (12,689 ft), Mount Mellenthin (12,630 ft), Mount Tukuhnikivatz (12,456 ft), Mount Waas (12,292 ft)
Holding ground: Burro Pass (11,139 ft), Beaver Basin (10,258 ft), La Sal Pass (10,135 ft), Cabin Spring, Cold 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 Black Bear in Unit La Sal
Black Bear Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit La Sal 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.
Black Bear Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pursuit — Limited Entry either sex (resident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 3 |
| Pursuit — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident) | 2 | 15 | 13.3% | 3 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident) | 9 | 313 | 2.9% | 20 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 37 | 2.7% | 20 |
Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2024 draw recap for black bear in unit La Sal, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 387 applicants for 40 licences, 10.3% drawn, 16 bonus points needed
- Pursuit, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 144 applicants for 14 licences, 9.7% drawn, 6 bonus points needed
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, nonresident: 59 applicants for 3 licences, 5.1% drawn, 16 bonus points needed
- Pursuit, Limited Entry, Either Sex, nonresident: 6 applicants for 1 licences, 16.7% drawn, 6 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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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