Unit North Slope
Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer
Unit North Slope lies in Daggett and Summit counties and covers about 1,219 square miles. Ground runs from 6,396 to 12,511 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.
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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit North Slope
Unit North Slope lies in Daggett and Summit counties and covers about 1,219 square miles. Ground runs from 6,396 to 12,511 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 North Slope
UDWR's material on unit North Slope stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mule deer 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 Daggett and Summit counties. It runs to about 1,219 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Hayden Pass, Uinta Mountains and Green River
UDWR draws unit North Slope in Daggett and Summit counties with a boundary that runs on Hayden Pass, Uinta Mountains, Green River and Flaming Gorge Reservoir, 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. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.
Holding ground: McCoy Park, Bear Park and Weyman Park
Below them sit McCoy Park at 10,550 feet, Bear Park at 10,526 feet, Weyman Park at 10,521 feet, Bear Flat at 10,520 feet and Amethyst Basin at 10,432 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
Water: East Grindstone Spring, Grindstone Spring and Ross Spring
Named sources include East Grindstone Spring, Grindstone Spring, Ross Spring, Scraper Spring, Leona Spring and Dripping 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 6,396 feet to 12,511 feet, averaging 9,153 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.
Unit North Slope terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
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), East Grindstone Spring, Ross 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 North Slope
Mule Deer Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit North Slope 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) | 392 | 395 | 99.2% | 1 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 16 | 16 | 100.0% | 1 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 443 | 536 | 82.6% | 1 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 28 | 28 | 100.0% | 1 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 415 | 630 | 65.9% | 1 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 26 | 26 | 100.0% | 1 |
Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2025 draw recap for mule deer in unit North Slope, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 1,195 applicants for 756 licences, 63.3% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
- Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 536 applicants for 443 licences, 82.6% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 50 applicants for 50 licences, 100% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 49 applicants for 13 licences, 26.5% drawn, 11 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.
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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