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Unit Monroe

Utah Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer, Black Bear

Unit Monroe lies in Piute and Sevier counties and covers about 690 square miles. Ground runs from 5,256 to 10,309 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 28%. 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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Elk Hunting in Unit Monroe

Where to Find Elk in Unit Monroe

What UDWR publishes for unit Monroe is a boundary, not a elk map. 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 Piute and Sevier counties. It runs to about 690 square miles.

What bounds unit Monroe

UDWR has unit Monroe Boundary begins at US-89 and I-70 near Sevier; south on US-89 to SR-62; east and north on SR-62 to SR-24; north on SR-24 to I-70; south on I-70 to US-89 near Sevier. EXCLUDES ALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST LANDS WITHIN THIS BOUNDARY. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Monroe Peak, Signal Peak and Glenwood Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Monroe Peak at 11,222 feet, Signal Peak at 11,220 feet, Glenwood Mountain at 11,220 feet, Monument Peak at 11,032 feet and Marysvale Peak at 10,746 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.

Holding ground: Monroe Meadows, Sage Flat and Clover Flat

Below them sit Monroe Meadows at 10,068 feet, Sage Flat at 9,973 feet, Clover Flat at 9,937 feet, Brindley Flat at 9,760 feet and Manning Meadows at 9,752 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: Koosharem Pasture Spring, Brindley Spring and Christiersen Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 61 mapped stream reaches, 14 lakes, 24 stock tanks and 2 springs. Named sources include Koosharem Pasture Spring, Brindley Spring, Christiersen Spring, Kinney Spring, Hodge Ranch Spring and Burr 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 National Forest 60%, Private / Other 32% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 5,256 feet to 10,309 feet, averaging 7,479 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.

Unit Monroe terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,256–10,309 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,479 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
689.7 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

24 tanks
2 springs
61 stream segments
14 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: Monroe Peak (11,222 ft), Signal Peak (11,220 ft), Monument Peak (11,032 ft), Marysvale Peak (10,746 ft)

Holding ground: Doe Flat (10,600 ft), Fitzgeral Park (10,200 ft), Brindley Flat (9,760 ft), Koosharem Pasture Spring, Brindley 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 Elk in Unit Monroe

UDWR's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit Monroe at rifle 28%, muzzleloader 22% and archery 18%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

Glassing from Devils Dutch Oven, Langdon Mountain and Miners Ridge

Take a position on one of Devils Dutch Oven (10,442 ft), Langdon Mountain (10,306 ft), Miners Ridge (10,103 ft) and Big Table (10,081 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. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 61 mapped stream reaches and 24 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 78/40°F, Oct 65/30°F and Nov 52/21°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 in. in Sep, 1 in. in Oct and 0.6 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: SR 62 and US 89

SR 62, US 89 and SR 24 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Monroe Peak, Signal Peak, Monument Peak and Marysvale Peak as places to see from, and Doe Flat, Fitzgeral Park, Brindley Flat and Koosharem Pasture Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

What a day here costs you

690 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Monroe, about 9 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,053 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.

Getting in and staying out: unit Monroe

Named routes and what they need

SR 62 — 21.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 89 — 12.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 24 — 11.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 70;US 89 — 7.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Old US Highway 89 — 7.3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Old Highway 62 — 5.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Monroe — 9.2 mi · groceries
Koosharem — 9.6 mi · fuel, groceries
Marysvale — 10.1 mi · groceries, lodging
Joseph — 11.8 mi · no services listed
Elsinore — 13 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Big Lake CUA Dispersed
Koosharem Canyon/Paiute ATV
Lower Box Creek Trailhead
Manning Meadow CUA Dispersed
Milo's Kitchen Trailhead

Season weather and signal

Jan41° / 14° · 0.7" precip
Aug85° / 49° · 1.2" precip
Sep78° / 40° · 1" precip
Oct65° / 30° · 1" precip
Nov52° / 21° · 0.6" precip
Dec41° / 13° · 0.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

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.

Elk: 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. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

Rifle28%

Muzzleloader22%

Archery18%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Monroe 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.

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	20	461	4.3%	11
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	150	1.3%	11
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	11	160	6.9%	27
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	144	0.7%	27
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	7	19	36.8%	10
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	12	8.3%	10
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	22	473	4.7%	26
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	3	184	1.6%	26
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (resident)	2	248	0.8%	30
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	30
Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (resident)	22	422	5.2%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (nonresident)	3	35	8.6%	—

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2025 draw recap for elk in unit Monroe, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 1,307 applicants for 8 licences, 0.6% drawn, 29 bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 663 applicants for 1 licences, 0.2% drawn, 29 bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Antlerless, Antlerless, resident: 422 applicants for 22 licences, 5.2% drawn, no bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 273 applicants for 19 licences, 7% drawn, 22 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 5 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.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit Monroe

Unit Monroe lies in Piute and Sevier counties and covers about 690 square miles. Ground runs from 5,256 to 10,309 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 Monroe

What UDWR publishes for unit Monroe is a boundary, not a mule deer map. 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 Piute and Sevier counties. It runs to about 690 square miles.

What bounds unit Monroe

UDWR has unit Monroe Boundary begins at US-89 and I-70 near Sevier; south on US-89 to SR-62; east and north on SR-62 to SR-24; north on SR-24 to I-70; south on I-70 to US-89 near Sevier. EXCLUDES ALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST LANDS WITHIN THIS BOUNDARY. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Cove Mountain, Monkey Flat Ridge and Devils Castle

Named high points inside the unit include Cove Mountain at 10,706 feet, Monkey Flat Ridge at 10,597 feet, Devils Castle at 10,581 feet, Devils Dutch Oven at 10,442 feet and Langdon Mountain at 10,306 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: Long Flat, Jackass Flat and Central Pasture

Below them sit Long Flat at 9,722 feet, Jackass Flat at 9,658 feet, Central Pasture at 9,647 feet, East Hunter Flat at 9,605 feet and Eagle Flat at 9,591 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: Hunters Spring, Chimney Spring and Cold Springs

The water inside the unit line comes to 61 mapped stream reaches, 14 lakes, 24 stock tanks and 2 springs. Named sources include Hunters Spring, Chimney Spring, Cold Springs, Jensen Spring, Christensen Spring and Whooton 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 Monroe terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,256–10,309 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,479 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
689.7 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

24 tanks
2 springs
61 stream segments
14 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: Monroe Peak (11,222 ft), Signal Peak (11,220 ft), Monument Peak (11,032 ft), Marysvale Peak (10,746 ft)

Holding ground: Doe Flat (10,600 ft), Fitzgeral Park (10,200 ft), Brindley Flat (9,760 ft), Koosharem Pasture Spring, Brindley 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 Monroe

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Monroe 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 Bean Hill, Red Pine Ridge and Indian Peak

Take a position on one of Bean Hill (10,038 ft), Red Pine Ridge (9,981 ft), Indian Peak (9,830 ft) and Doe Ridge (9,802 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. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 61 mapped stream reaches and 24 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: SR 62 and US 89

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Monroe Peak, Signal Peak, Monument Peak and Marysvale Peak as places to see from, and Doe Flat, Fitzgeral Park, Brindley Flat and Koosharem Pasture Spring 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

690 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Monroe, about 9 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 5,053 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.

Getting in and staying out: unit Monroe

Named routes and what they need

SR 62 — 21.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 89 — 12.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 24 — 11.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 70;US 89 — 7.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Old US Highway 89 — 7.3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Old Highway 62 — 5.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Monroe — 9.2 mi · groceries
Koosharem — 9.6 mi · fuel, groceries
Marysvale — 10.1 mi · groceries, lodging
Joseph — 11.8 mi · no services listed
Elsinore — 13 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Big Lake CUA Dispersed
Koosharem Canyon/Paiute ATV
Lower Box Creek Trailhead
Manning Meadow CUA Dispersed
Milo's Kitchen Trailhead

Season weather and signal

Jan41° / 14° · 0.7" precip
Aug85° / 49° · 1.2" precip
Sep78° / 40° · 1" precip
Oct65° / 30° · 1" precip
Nov52° / 21° · 0.6" precip
Dec41° / 13° · 0.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

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 Monroe 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)	119	376	31.6%	—
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	14	34	41.2%	—
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	134	392	34.2%	—
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	16	38	42.1%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	366	1,865	19.6%	16
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	41	138	29.7%	16

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 Monroe, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 1,865 applicants for 366 licences, 19.6% drawn, 16 bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 392 applicants for 134 licences, 34.2% drawn, no bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 138 applicants for 41 licences, 29.7% drawn, 16 bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 38 applicants for 16 licences, 42.1% 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.

Black Bear Hunting in Unit Monroe

Unit Monroe lies in Piute and Sevier counties and covers about 690 square miles. Ground runs from 5,256 to 10,309 feet. 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 Monroe

What UDWR publishes for unit Monroe is a boundary, not a black bear map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Piute and Sevier counties. It runs to about 690 square miles.

What bounds unit Monroe

UDWR has unit Monroe Boundary begins at US-89 and I-70 near Sevier; south on US-89 to SR-62; east and north on SR-62 to SR-24; north on SR-24 to I-70; south on I-70 to US-89 near Sevier. EXCLUDES ALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST LANDS WITHIN THIS BOUNDARY. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Miners Ridge, Big Table and Bean Hill

Named high points inside the unit include Miners Ridge at 10,103 feet, Big Table at 10,081 feet, Bean Hill at 10,038 feet, Red Pine Ridge at 9,981 feet and Indian Peak at 9,830 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: Bagley Meadows, Water Flat and Doe Hole

Below them sit Bagley Meadows at 9,517 feet, Water Flat at 9,478 feet, Doe Hole at 9,450 feet, Big Flat at 9,405 feet and Circle Flat at 9,257 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: Hot Springs, White Ledge Spring and Willow Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 61 mapped stream reaches, 14 lakes, 24 stock tanks and 2 springs. Named sources include Hot Springs, White Ledge Spring, Willow Spring, Sevy Spring, Swift Spring and Koosharem Pasture 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 Monroe terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,256–10,309 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,479 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
689.7 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

24 tanks
2 springs
61 stream segments
14 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: Monroe Peak (11,222 ft), Signal Peak (11,220 ft), Monument Peak (11,032 ft), Marysvale Peak (10,746 ft)

Holding ground: Doe Flat (10,600 ft), Fitzgeral Park (10,200 ft), Brindley Flat (9,760 ft), Koosharem Pasture Spring, Brindley Spring

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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How to Hunt Black Bear in Unit Monroe

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure for unit Monroe that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: find the berry crop first, then glass it morning and evening until something is in it.

Glassing from Malmsten Peak, Forshea Mountain and Reservoir Hill

Take a position on one of Malmsten Peak (9,795 ft), Forshea Mountain (9,795 ft), Reservoir Hill (9,755 ft) and Tabernacle Ridge (9,653 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

Water against feed

There are 61 mapped stream reaches and 24 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: SR 62 and US 89

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Monroe Peak, Signal Peak, Monument Peak and Marysvale Peak as places to see from, and Doe Flat, Fitzgeral Park, Brindley Flat and Koosharem Pasture Spring 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

Getting in and staying out: unit Monroe

Named routes and what they need

SR 62 — 21.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 89 — 12.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 24 — 11.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 70;US 89 — 7.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Old US Highway 89 — 7.3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Old Highway 62 — 5.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Monroe — 9.2 mi · groceries
Koosharem — 9.6 mi · fuel, groceries
Marysvale — 10.1 mi · groceries, lodging
Joseph — 11.8 mi · no services listed
Elsinore — 13 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Big Lake CUA Dispersed
Koosharem Canyon/Paiute ATV
Lower Box Creek Trailhead
Manning Meadow CUA Dispersed
Milo's Kitchen Trailhead

Season weather and signal

Jan41° / 14° · 0.7" precip
Aug85° / 49° · 1.2" precip
Sep78° / 40° · 1" precip
Oct65° / 30° · 1" precip
Nov52° / 21° · 0.6" precip
Dec41° / 13° · 0.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

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.

Black Bear: 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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Black Bear Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit Monroe 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
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident)	1	30	3.3%	5

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2024 draw recap for black bear in unit Monroe, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 14 applicants for 1 licences, 7.1% drawn, 2 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

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

13 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Big Lake CUA Dispersed, Koosharem Canyon/Paiute ATV and Lower Box Creek Trailhead.

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Road Conditions

SR 62, US 89 and SR 24 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 61 mi paved, 16 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

5,256–10,309 ft, averaging 7,479. More than 4,000 feet of relief, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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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 78/40°F, 1 in.; Oct 65/30°F, 1 in.; Nov 52/21°F, 0.6 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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Nearest Town

Monroe (9 mi), Koosharem (10 mi), Marysvale (10 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Monroe?

Unit Monroe lies in Piute and Sevier counties. UDWR has unit Monroe Boundary begins at US-89 and I-70 near Sevier; south on US-89 to SR-62; east and north on SR-62 to SR-24; north on SR-24 to I-70; south on I-70 to US-89 near Sevier. EXCLUDES ALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST LANDS WITHIN THIS BOUNDARY. It covers about 690 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit Monroe?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit Monroe at rifle 28%, muzzleloader 22% and archery 18% 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 Monroe hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit Monroe are at Monroe, about 9 miles from the unit's centre, with Koosharem at about 10 miles. There are also 13 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

Can you hunt unit Monroe on public land?

What is the mule deer success rate in unit Monroe?

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

What is the black bear success rate in unit Monroe?

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit Monroe on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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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