Unit Mineral Mtns (Mineral Mountain)
Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep
Unit Mineral Mtns is a hunt unit and covers about 536 square miles. Ground runs from 4,936 to 8,380 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 Mineral Mtns
Unit Mineral Mtns is a hunt unit and covers about 536 square miles. Ground runs from 4,936 to 8,380 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 Mineral Mtns
What UDWR publishes for unit Mineral Mtns is a boundary, not a bighorn sheep map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. It runs to about 536 square miles.
What bounds unit Mineral Mtns
UDWR has unit Mineral Mtns Beaver and Millard Counties: Boundary begins at Black Rock Road and I-15 near Cove Fort; west on Black Rock Road to SR-257; south on SR-257 to SR-21; south and east SR-21 to I-15; north on I-15 to Black Rock Road near Cove Fort. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Granite Peak, Mineral Mountains and Milford Needle
Named high points inside the unit include Granite Peak at 9,540 feet, Mineral Mountains at 9,515 feet, Milford Needle at 9,278 feet, Bearskin Mountain at 9,069 feet and Wildhorse Mountain at 8,942 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: Patterson Hollow, Wildcat Hollow and Sunnyside Hollow
Below them sit Patterson Hollow at 7,230 feet, Wildcat Hollow at 7,113 feet, Sunnyside Hollow at 7,006 feet, Pinnacle Pass at 6,893 feet and Left Fork Ranch Canyon at 6,841 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.
Water: Rock Corral Spring, Granite Spring and Jackrabbit Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 40 mapped stream reaches, 3 lakes, 55 stock tanks and 1 springs. Named sources include Rock Corral Spring, Granite Spring, Jackrabbit Spring, Wycroft Spring, Old Indian Spring and Alkali 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 4,936 feet to 8,380 feet, averaging 6,114 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Mineral Mtns terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,936–8,380 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,114 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 535.8 sq mi inside the boundary.
Who owns the ground
- Private / Other — 100%
Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 55 tanks
- 1 springs
- 40 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: Granite Peak (9,540 ft), Bearskin Mountain (9,069 ft), Harkley Mountain (8,409 ft), Bailey Mountain (8,278 ft)
Holding ground: Bearskin Flat (8,230 ft), Soldier Pass (7,497 ft), Little Basin (7,493 ft), Rock Corral Spring, Granite 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 Mineral Mtns
Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit Mineral Mtns 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) | 2 | 366 | 0.5% | 11 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 3 | 376 | 0.8% | 27 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 27 |
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 Mineral Mtns, 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: 376 applicants for 3 licences, 0.8% drawn, 27 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