Unit North Slope, Summit
Utah Hunting Guide — Moose, Antelope
Unit North Slope, Summit lies in Summit County and covers about 602 square miles. Ground runs from 8,538 to 11,936 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.
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Moose Hunting in Unit North Slope, Summit
Unit North Slope, Summit lies in Summit County and covers about 602 square miles. Ground runs from 8,538 to 11,936 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 North Slope, Summit
What UDWR publishes for unit North Slope, Summit is a boundary, not a Shiras moose map. 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 Summit County. It runs to about 602 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Hayden Pass, Burnt Fork and Divide Pass
UDWR draws unit North Slope, Summit in Summit County with a boundary that runs on Hayden Pass, Burnt Fork, Divide Pass and Island Lake, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. 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: Gilbert Peak, Mount Powell and Tokewanna Peak
Named high points inside the unit include Gilbert Peak at 13,452 feet, Mount Powell at 13,125 feet, Tokewanna Peak at 13,111 feet, South Burro Peak at 12,719 feet and Lamotte Peak at 12,702 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.
Holding ground: Bear Park, Bear Flat and Amethyst Basin
Below them sit Bear Park at 10,526 feet, Bear Flat at 10,520 feet, Amethyst Basin at 10,432 feet, Deadman Pass at 10,419 feet and Corral Meadows at 10,388 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 in this unit
The water inside the unit line comes to 934 mapped stream reaches, 46 lakes, 304 stock tanks and 10 springs. 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 8,538 feet to 11,936 feet, averaging 10,182 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit North Slope, Summit terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 8,538–11,936 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 10,182 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 602.2 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
- 304 tanks
- 10 springs
- 934 stream segments
- 46 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: Gilbert Peak (13,452 ft), Mount Powell (13,125 ft), Tokewanna Peak (13,111 ft), South Burro Peak (12,719 ft)
Holding ground: Smiths Fork Pass (11,758 ft), Thompson Pass (11,139 ft), Deadhorse Park (10,840 ft)
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 North Slope, Summit
Moose Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no Shiras moose row for unit North Slope, Summit 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
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 22 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 3 | 2,742 | 0.1% | 1 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 19 | 3,339 | 0.6% | 30 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 3 | 2,917 | 0.1% | 30 |
Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2025 draw recap for Shiras moose in unit North Slope, Summit, 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: 3,339 applicants for 19 licences, 0.6% drawn, 30 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 2,917 applicants for 3 licences, 0.1% drawn, 30 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