Unit North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West (High Uintas West)
Utah Hunting Guide — Mountain Goat
Unit North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West lies in Duchesne and Summit counties and covers about 671 square miles. Ground runs from 8,322 to 11,636 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.
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Mountain Goat Hunting in Unit North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West
Unit North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West lies in Duchesne and Summit counties and covers about 671 square miles. Ground runs from 8,322 to 11,636 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 North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West
What UDWR publishes for unit North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West is a boundary, not a mountain goat 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 Duchesne and Summit counties. It runs to about 671 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Uinta Mountains, Blacks Fork River and Squaw Pass
UDWR draws unit North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West in Duchesne and Summit counties with a boundary that runs on USFS 058 and USFS 037, and on Uinta Mountains, Blacks Fork River, Squaw Pass and Oweep Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.
High ground inside the line: Mount Lovenia, Tokewanna Peak and Kweeyahgut Peak
Named high points inside the unit include Mount Lovenia at 13,212 feet, Tokewanna Peak at 13,111 feet, Kweeyahgut Peak at 12,853 feet, Lamotte Peak at 12,702 feet and Yard Peak at 12,694 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: Lambert Meadow, Naturalist Basin and Ottoson Basin
Below them sit Lambert Meadow at 10,933 feet, Naturalist Basin at 10,893 feet, Ottoson Basin at 10,890 feet, Four Lakes Basin at 10,753 feet and Tworoose Pass at 10,674 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: Cold Spring, Pigeon Water Spring and Pigeon Milk Spring
Named sources include Cold Spring, Pigeon Water Spring, Pigeon Milk Spring and Big 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 8,322 feet to 11,636 feet, averaging 9,841 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Mount Lovenia (13,212 ft), Tokewanna Peak (13,111 ft), Kweeyahgut Peak (12,853 ft), Lamotte Peak (12,702 ft)
Holding ground: Red Knob Pass (11,976 ft), Dead Horse Pass (11,411 ft), Rocky Sea Pass (11,246 ft), Cold Spring, Pigeon Water 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 North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West
Mountain Goat Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mountain goat row for unit North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West 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) | 13 | 611 | 2.1% | 29 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident) | 2 | 666 | 0.3% | 29 |
Data from 2023 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2023 draw recap for mountain goat in unit North Slope/south Slope, High Uintas West, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, nonresident: 666 applicants for 2 licences, 0.3% drawn, 29 bonus points needed
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 611 applicants for 13 licences, 2.1% drawn, 29 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.
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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