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Unit Mt Dutton

Utah Hunting Guide — Elk, Mountain Goat, Mule Deer, Black Bear

Unit Mt Dutton lies in Garfield and Piute counties and covers about 659 square miles. Ground runs from 6,256 to 9,904 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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6,256–9,904 ft

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Elk Hunting in Unit Mt Dutton

Where to Find Elk in Unit Mt Dutton

UDWR's material on unit Mt Dutton stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Garfield and Piute counties. It runs to about 659 square miles.

What bounds unit Mt Dutton

UDWR has unit Mt Dutton Boundary begins at US-89 and SR-62; south on US-89 to SR-12; east on SR-12 to the Widtsoe-Antimony Road; north on this road to SR-22; north on SR-22 to SR-62; west on SR-62 to US-89. Excludes all CWMUs. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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 Dutton, Mount Pierson and Adams Head

Named high points inside the unit include Mount Dutton at 11,015 feet, Mount Pierson at 10,635 feet, Adams Head at 10,418 feet, Cottonwood Peak at 10,322 feet and Hancock Peak at 9,944 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: Judd Pasture, Sevier Plateau and Sand Flat

Below them sit Judd Pasture at 9,159 feet, Sevier Plateau at 8,875 feet, Sand Flat at 8,778 feet, Jones Corral Draw at 8,418 feet and Hancock Flat at 8,168 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water: Dipping Vat Spring, Burnt Spring and Hancock Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 50 mapped stream reaches, 4 lakes and 99 stock tanks. Named sources include Dipping Vat Spring, Burnt Spring, Hancock Spring, Bill Pinney Spring, Cougar Spring and Pine 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 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 6,256 feet to 9,904 feet, averaging 7,938 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit Mt Dutton terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

6,256–9,904 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,938 ft ; peaks can run higher.
658.8 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

99 tanks
50 stream segments
4 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: Mount Dutton (11,015 ft), Mount Pierson (10,635 ft), Adams Head (10,418 ft), Cottonwood Peak (10,322 ft)

Holding ground: Winnemucca Flat (9,684 ft), Mule Flat (9,613 ft), Bear Flat (9,556 ft), Dipping Vat Spring, Hancock 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 Mt Dutton

UDWR's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit Mt Dutton at archery 18%, rifle 28% and muzzleloader 22%. 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 Flat Top, Bull Rush Peak and Snowbank

Take a position on one of Flat Top (9,374 ft), Bull Rush Peak (9,368 ft), Snowbank (9,142 ft) and Casto Bluff (9,123 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, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 50 mapped stream reaches and 99 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 76/39°F, Oct 64/28°F and Nov 51/18°F. By Nov the lows are around 18°F, and the first hard storm after that moves animals off the high ground — a late tag is a bet on that storm arriving. Precipitation runs about 1.3 in. in Sep, 1.2 in. in Oct and 0.7 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: US 89 and John's Valley Road

US 89, SR 12 and SR 22 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. FR 294 needs clearance, and that is usually where the boot tracks thin out. 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 Mount Dutton, Mount Pierson, Adams Head and Cottonwood Peak as places to see from, and Winnemucca Flat, Mule Flat, Bear Flat and Dipping Vat 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

659 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 Antimony, about 16 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 3,648 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

Getting in and staying out: unit Mt Dutton

Named routes and what they need

US 89 — 18.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
John's Valley Road — 16.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
SR 12 — 6.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 22 — 4.2 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 62 — 3.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
FR 294 — 1.8 mi · High-clearance

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

Antimony — 15.7 mi · no services listed
Panguitch — 15.8 mi · groceries, lodging
Circleville — 16 mi · fuel, groceries
Kingston — 18 mi · no services listed
Junction — 20 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Riverside Campground
Under Canvas
Otter Creek RV Park
Red Canyon RV Park
Henrie's Hitch N Post RV Resort

Season weather and signal

Jan40° / 10° · 0.6" precip
Aug83° / 47° · 1.5" precip
Sep76° / 39° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 28° · 1.2" precip
Nov51° / 18° · 0.7" precip
Dec39° / 10° · 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

Archery18%

Rifle28%

Muzzleloader22%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Mt Dutton 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
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	9	20	45.0%	8
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	15	6.7%	8
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	18	288	6.3%	15
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	84	2.4%	15
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	11	120	9.2%	24
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	118	0.8%	24
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	21	287	7.3%	22
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	108	1.9%	22
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (resident)	2	107	1.9%	27
Any Legal Weapon — Multi-season bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	27

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 elk in unit Mt Dutton, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 566 applicants for 7 licences, 1.2% drawn, 28 bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 207 applicants for 1 licences, 0.5% drawn, 28 bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 179 applicants for 17 licences, 9.5% drawn, 14 bonus points needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 120 applicants for 11 licences, 9.2% drawn, 24 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 3 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.

Mountain Goat Hunting in Unit Mt Dutton

Unit Mt Dutton lies in Garfield and Piute counties and covers about 659 square miles. Ground runs from 6,256 to 9,904 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mountain goat success here as high as 65%. 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 Mountain Goat in Unit Mt Dutton

UDWR's material on unit Mt Dutton stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mountain goat live. 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 Garfield and Piute counties. It runs to about 659 square miles.

What bounds unit Mt Dutton

UDWR has unit Mt Dutton Boundary begins at US-89 and SR-62; south on US-89 to SR-12; east on SR-12 to the Widtsoe-Antimony Road; north on this road to SR-22; north on SR-22 to SR-62; west on SR-62 to US-89. Excludes all CWMUs. 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: Table Mountain, Crow Peak and Blind Spring Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Table Mountain at 9,870 feet, Crow Peak at 9,769 feet, Blind Spring Mountain at 9,494 feet, Flat Top at 9,374 feet and Bull Rush Peak at 9,368 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Goats live above the trees on cliff and talus and come down only when weather makes them.

Holding ground: Log Hollow, Barney Cove and Lightning Hollow

Below them sit Log Hollow at 8,132 feet, Barney Cove at 8,061 feet, Lightning Hollow at 8,050 feet, Tent Hollow at 7,885 feet and Hancock Canyon at 7,718 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: Tom Best Spring, Winnemucca Spring and Jones Corral Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 50 mapped stream reaches, 4 lakes and 99 stock tanks. Named sources include Tom Best Spring, Winnemucca Spring, Jones Corral Spring, V Spring, Clarence Creek Spring and Beebe 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 Mt Dutton terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

6,256–9,904 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,938 ft ; peaks can run higher.
658.8 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

99 tanks
50 stream segments
4 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: Mount Dutton (11,015 ft), Mount Pierson (10,635 ft), Adams Head (10,418 ft), Cottonwood Peak (10,322 ft)

Holding ground: Winnemucca Flat (9,684 ft), Mule Flat (9,613 ft), Bear Flat (9,556 ft), Dipping Vat Spring, Hancock 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 Mountain Goat in Unit Mt Dutton

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mountain goat success in unit Mt Dutton at rifle 65%. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: glass from across the basin, judge the climb honestly, and decide whether a hit animal could be recovered.

Glassing from Barnhurst Ridge, Window Rock and Mud Spring Ridge

Take a position on one of Barnhurst Ridge (9,007 ft), Window Rock (8,773 ft), Mud Spring Ridge (8,729 ft) and Horse Valley Peak (8,580 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, early hunts find goats higher and later hunts find them pushed down by snow.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: US 89 and John's Valley Road

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Mount Dutton, Mount Pierson, Adams Head and Cottonwood Peak as places to see from, and Winnemucca Flat, Mule Flat, Bear Flat and Dipping Vat 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

659 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 Antimony, about 16 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 3,648 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 Mt Dutton

Named routes and what they need

US 89 — 18.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
John's Valley Road — 16.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
SR 12 — 6.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 22 — 4.2 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 62 — 3.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
FR 294 — 1.8 mi · High-clearance

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

Antimony — 15.7 mi · no services listed
Panguitch — 15.8 mi · groceries, lodging
Circleville — 16 mi · fuel, groceries
Kingston — 18 mi · no services listed
Junction — 20 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Riverside Campground
Under Canvas
Otter Creek RV Park
Red Canyon RV Park
Henrie's Hitch N Post RV Resort

Season weather and signal

Jan40° / 10° · 0.6" precip
Aug83° / 47° · 1.5" precip
Sep76° / 39° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 28° · 1.2" precip
Nov51° / 18° · 0.7" precip
Dec39° / 10° · 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.

Mountain Goat: 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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Mountain Goat Success Rates

Rifle65%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mountain goat row for unit Mt Dutton 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.

Mountain Goat Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident)	2	169	1.2%	10
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident)	2	190	1.1%	22
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	22

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 mountain goat in unit Mt Dutton, 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: 190 applicants for 2 licences, 1.1% 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. 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 Mt Dutton

Unit Mt Dutton lies in Garfield and Piute counties and covers about 659 square miles. Ground runs from 6,256 to 9,904 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 Mt Dutton

UDWR draws an exact line around unit Mt Dutton 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 Garfield and Piute counties. It runs to about 659 square miles.

What bounds unit Mt Dutton

UDWR has unit Mt Dutton Boundary begins at US-89 and SR-62; south on US-89 to SR-12; east on SR-12 to the Widtsoe-Antimony Road; north on this road to SR-22; north on SR-22 to SR-62; west on SR-62 to US-89. 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: Snowbank, Casto Bluff and Barnhurst Ridge

Named high points inside the unit include Snowbank at 9,142 feet, Casto Bluff at 9,123 feet, Barnhurst Ridge at 9,007 feet, Window Rock at 8,773 feet and Mud Spring Ridge at 8,729 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: Cabin Hollow, Emery Valley and Corral Hollow

Below them sit Cabin Hollow at 7,627 feet, Emery Valley at 7,620 feet, Corral Hollow at 7,616 feet, Gussie Draw at 7,556 feet and Pat Willis Draw at 7,532 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Water: Bullberry Spring, Mountain Spring and Berry Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 50 mapped stream reaches, 4 lakes and 99 stock tanks. Named sources include Bullberry Spring, Mountain Spring, Berry Spring, Dipping Vat Spring, Burnt Spring and Hancock 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 Mt Dutton terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

6,256–9,904 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,938 ft ; peaks can run higher.
658.8 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

99 tanks
50 stream segments
4 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: Mount Dutton (11,015 ft), Mount Pierson (10,635 ft), Adams Head (10,418 ft), Cottonwood Peak (10,322 ft)

Holding ground: Winnemucca Flat (9,684 ft), Mule Flat (9,613 ft), Bear Flat (9,556 ft), Dipping Vat Spring, Hancock 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 Mt Dutton

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Mt Dutton 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 Flake Mountain, Clark Bench and Horse Bench

Take a position on one of Flake Mountain (8,298 ft), Clark Bench (8,268 ft), Horse Bench (8,165 ft) and Mud Spring Bench (8,128 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: US 89 and John's Valley Road

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Mount Dutton, Mount Pierson, Adams Head and Cottonwood Peak as places to see from, and Winnemucca Flat, Mule Flat, Bear Flat and Dipping Vat 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

659 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 Antimony, about 16 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 3,648 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 Mt Dutton

Named routes and what they need

US 89 — 18.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
John's Valley Road — 16.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
SR 12 — 6.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 22 — 4.2 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 62 — 3.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
FR 294 — 1.8 mi · High-clearance

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

Antimony — 15.7 mi · no services listed
Panguitch — 15.8 mi · groceries, lodging
Circleville — 16 mi · fuel, groceries
Kingston — 18 mi · no services listed
Junction — 20 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Riverside Campground
Under Canvas
Otter Creek RV Park
Red Canyon RV Park
Henrie's Hitch N Post RV Resort

Season weather and signal

Jan40° / 10° · 0.6" precip
Aug83° / 47° · 1.5" precip
Sep76° / 39° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 28° · 1.2" precip
Nov51° / 18° · 0.7" precip
Dec39° / 10° · 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

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UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Mt Dutton 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)	48	91	52.7%	—
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	6	19	31.6%	—
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	52	123	42.3%	—
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	7	9	77.8%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	127	666	19.1%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	15	114	13.2%	—

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

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 666 applicants for 127 licences, 19.1% drawn, no bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 123 applicants for 52 licences, 42.3% drawn, no bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 114 applicants for 15 licences, 13.2% drawn, no bonus points needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 20 applicants for 4 licences, 20% drawn, 14 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 Mt Dutton

Unit Mt Dutton lies in Garfield and Piute counties and covers about 659 square miles. Ground runs from 6,256 to 9,904 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 Mt Dutton

UDWR draws an exact line around unit Mt Dutton 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 Garfield and Piute counties. It runs to about 659 square miles.

What bounds unit Mt Dutton

UDWR has unit Mt Dutton Boundary begins at US-89 and SR-62; south on US-89 to SR-12; east on SR-12 to the Widtsoe-Antimony Road; north on this road to SR-22; north on SR-22 to SR-62; west on SR-62 to US-89. Excludes all CWMUs. 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: Horse Valley Peak, Flake Mountain and Clark Bench

Named high points inside the unit include Horse Valley Peak at 8,580 feet, Flake Mountain at 8,298 feet, Clark Bench at 8,268 feet, Horse Bench at 8,165 feet and Mud Spring Bench at 8,128 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: Washboard Flat, Flake Swale and Butch Cassidy Draw

Below them sit Washboard Flat at 7,490 feet, Flake Swale at 7,455 feet, Butch Cassidy Draw at 7,405 feet, Horse Valley at 7,281 feet and Losee Canyon at 7,121 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water: Bill Pinney Spring, Cougar Spring and Pine Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 50 mapped stream reaches, 4 lakes and 99 stock tanks. Named sources include Bill Pinney Spring, Cougar Spring, Pine Spring, Tom Best Spring, Winnemucca Spring and Jones Corral 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 Mt Dutton terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

6,256–9,904 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,938 ft ; peaks can run higher.
658.8 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

99 tanks
50 stream segments
4 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: Mount Dutton (11,015 ft), Mount Pierson (10,635 ft), Adams Head (10,418 ft), Cottonwood Peak (10,322 ft)

Holding ground: Winnemucca Flat (9,684 ft), Mule Flat (9,613 ft), Bear Flat (9,556 ft), Dipping Vat Spring, Hancock 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 Mt Dutton

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure for unit Mt Dutton 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 Showalter Bench, Sand Wash Bench and Black Mountain

Take a position on one of Showalter Bench (8,108 ft), Sand Wash Bench (8,020 ft), Black Mountain (7,882 ft) and Roller Mill Hill (6,696 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, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

Water against feed

There are 50 mapped stream reaches and 99 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: US 89 and John's Valley Road

A first plan from the pins on this page

What a day here costs you

659 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 Antimony, about 16 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. With 3,648 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 Mt Dutton

Named routes and what they need

US 89 — 18.4 mi · Paved (all rigs)
John's Valley Road — 16.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
SR 12 — 6.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 22 — 4.2 mi · Paved (all rigs)
SR 62 — 3.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
FR 294 — 1.8 mi · High-clearance

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

Antimony — 15.7 mi · no services listed
Panguitch — 15.8 mi · groceries, lodging
Circleville — 16 mi · fuel, groceries
Kingston — 18 mi · no services listed
Junction — 20 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Riverside Campground
Under Canvas
Otter Creek RV Park
Red Canyon RV Park
Henrie's Hitch N Post RV Resort

Season weather and signal

Jan40° / 10° · 0.6" precip
Aug83° / 47° · 1.5" precip
Sep76° / 39° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 28° · 1.2" precip
Nov51° / 18° · 0.7" precip
Dec39° / 10° · 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 Mt Dutton 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	10	10.0%	11

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

Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 11 applicants for 3 licences, 27.3% 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

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

6 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Riverside Campground, Under Canvas and Otter Creek RV Park.

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Road Conditions

US 89, John's Valley Road and SR 12 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 49 mi paved, 9 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

6,256–9,904 ft, averaging 7,938. Enough relief to separate summer from winter range.

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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 76/39°F, 1.3 in.; Oct 64/28°F, 1.2 in.; Nov 51/18°F, 0.7 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

Antimony (16 mi), Panguitch (16 mi), Circleville (16 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Mt Dutton?

Unit Mt Dutton lies in Garfield and Piute counties. UDWR has unit Mt Dutton Boundary begins at US-89 and SR-62; south on US-89 to SR-12; east on SR-12 to the Widtsoe-Antimony Road; north on this road to SR-22; north on SR-22 to SR-62; west on SR-62 to US-89. Excludes all CWMUs. It covers about 659 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit Mt Dutton?

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

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit Mt Dutton are at Antimony, about 16 miles from the unit's centre, with Panguitch at about 16 miles. There are also 6 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

Can you hunt unit Mt Dutton on public land?

What is the mountain goat success rate in unit Mt Dutton?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mountain goat success in unit Mt Dutton at rifle 65% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit Mt Dutton?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Mt Dutton 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 Mt Dutton?

UDWR publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit Mt Dutton 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