Skip to content
ProHunt
Utah Moose Mule Deer

Unit Morgan-south Rich (Morgan-South Rich)

Utah Hunting Guide — Moose, Mule Deer

Unit Morgan-south Rich lies in Morgan, Rich, Summit and Weber counties and covers about 930 square miles. Ground runs from 5,125 to 8,246 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.

🏔️
8%
Public Land
⛰️
5,125–8,246 ft
Sampled elevation

Build your own PDF hunt guide for Unit Morgan-south Rich

Answer a few questions about your tag, your season and your rig, and the Field Intelligence Report builds a print-ready Utah Unit Morgan-south Rich guide around your hunt: three ranked spots with morning, afternoon and evening plays, a day-by-day plan, topo maps with every pin numbered, a camp and access plan, the legal and retrieval rules for this unit, shot discipline, a meat-care and pack-out plan, and a pre-trip checklist. Every coordinate sits on land recorded as public.

Free accounts get one report a year with the top spot unlocked. ProHunt Pro includes unlimited reports, all three spots, the full camp plan, and GPX/KML downloads for onX and Google Earth. Prefer to see one first? Open the builder and pick any unit.

Moose Hunting in Unit Morgan-south Rich

Unit Morgan-south Rich lies in Morgan, Rich, Summit and Weber counties and covers about 930 square miles. Ground runs from 5,125 to 8,246 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.

Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit Morgan-south Rich

UDWR draws an exact line around unit Morgan-south Rich and says nothing about where the Shiras moose 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 Morgan, Rich, Summit and Weber counties. It runs to about 930 square miles.

What bounds unit Morgan-south Rich

UDWR draws unit Morgan-south Rich in Morgan, Rich, Summit and Weber counties with a boundary that runs on I-80 and I-84, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Durst Mountain, Monte Cristo Range and Monte Cristo Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Durst Mountain at 9,233 feet, Monte Cristo Range at 9,152 feet, Monte Cristo Peak at 9,149 feet, Middle Ridge at 9,017 feet and Little Monte at 8,960 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose need standing water and willow, so on dry country they are tied to the few drainages that hold both.

Holding ground: Sleepy Gulch, Silvia Hollow and Hansen Canyon

Below them sit Sleepy Gulch at 7,918 feet, Silvia Hollow at 7,729 feet, Hansen Canyon at 7,709 feet, Pine Canyon at 7,680 feet and Trigger Gulch at 7,660 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: William Spring, Pipe Spring and Hatch Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 4,047 mapped stream reaches, 26 lakes, 849 stock tanks and 592 springs. Named sources include William Spring, Pipe Spring, Hatch Spring, Sprout Spring, Cave Spring and Sugar Pine Spring. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.

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 5,125 feet to 8,246 feet, averaging 6,903 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit Morgan-south Rich terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

  • 5,125–8,246 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,903 ft ; peaks can run higher.
  • 929.5 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

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

  • 849 tanks
  • 592 springs
  • 4,047 stream segments
  • 26 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: Monte Cristo Range (9,152 ft), Eli Ridge (8,941 ft), Baldy Ridge (8,652 ft), Swan Ridge (8,445 ft)

Holding ground: Freds Hollow (8,181 ft), Bluebell Flat (7,962 ft), Sleepy Gulch (7,918 ft), William Spring, Sprout 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 Morgan-south Rich

Pro Members Only

Upgrade to Pro to unlock this section

Upgrade to Pro — $49/yr

Moose Success Rates

Rifle70%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no Shiras moose row for unit Morgan-south Rich 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

SeasonTagsApplicantsDraw %Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) 43231.2% 17
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) 13990.3% 17
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) 64531.3% 29
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) 000.0% 29
Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (resident) 61,1970.5% 19
Any Legal Weapon — Antlerless antlerless (nonresident) 11560.6% 19
Archery — Antlerless antlerless (resident) 33290.9% 18
Archery — Antlerless antlerless (nonresident) 000.0% 18

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

Open in Draw Odds Engine

UDWR's 2025 draw recap for Shiras moose in unit Morgan-south Rich, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

  • Any Legal Weapon, Antlerless, Antlerless, resident: 1,197 applicants for 6 licences, 0.5% drawn, 19 bonus points needed
  • Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 453 applicants for 6 licences, 1.3% drawn, 29 bonus points needed
  • Archery, Antlerless, Antlerless, resident: 329 applicants for 3 licences, 0.9% drawn, 18 bonus points needed
  • Any Legal Weapon, Antlerless, Antlerless, nonresident: 156 applicants for 1 licences, 0.6% drawn, 19 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

Pro Members Only

Upgrade to Pro to unlock this section

Upgrade to Pro — $49/yr

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Morgan-south Rich?
Unit Morgan-south Rich lies in Morgan, Rich, Summit and Weber counties. UDWR draws unit Morgan-south Rich with a boundary that runs on I-80 and I-84, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It covers about 930 square miles.
What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit Morgan-south Rich?
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit Morgan-south Rich at rifle 70% 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 Morgan-south Rich hunt?
The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit Morgan-south Rich are at Henefer, about 17 miles from the unit's centre, with Huntsville at about 20 miles. There are also 26 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.
Can you hunt unit Morgan-south Rich 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 mule deer success rate in unit Morgan-south Rich?
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Morgan-south Rich at rifle 25% and muzzleloader 20% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Plan Your Hunt with ProHunt Pro

Unlock advanced tactics, the Tag-to-Trail Planner, AI hunt strategy assistant, and personalized camp and trip execution plans.

Upgrade to Pro — $49/yr

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