Utah Moose Mule Deer

Unit Ogden

Utah Hunting Guide — Moose, Mule Deer

Unit Ogden lies in Box Elder, Cache, Morgan and Weber counties and covers about 633 square miles. Ground runs from 4,306 to 8,903 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 Ogden

Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit Ogden

UDWR draws an exact line around unit Ogden 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 Box Elder, Cache, Morgan and Weber counties. It runs to about 633 square miles.

What bounds unit Ogden

UDWR draws unit Ogden in Box Elder, Cache, Morgan and Weber counties with a boundary that runs on USFS Road 054, I-84 and I-15, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Willard Peak, Ben Lomond and Mount Ogden

Named high points inside the unit include Willard Peak at 9,739 feet, Ben Lomond at 9,702 feet, Mount Ogden at 9,539 feet, Allen Peak at 9,436 feet and Willard Mountain at 9,417 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: Upper Ogden Bowl, Balsam Basin and Wildcat Run

Below them sit Upper Ogden Bowl at 8,262 feet, Balsam Basin at 7,640 feet, Wildcat Run at 7,425 feet, Sawmill Canyon at 7,124 feet and Bear Flat at 7,024 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: Cooper Spring, Pets Spring and Hall Spring

Named sources include Cooper Spring, Pets Spring, Hall Spring, Sardine Spring, Patio Springs and Cold Springs. 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 4,306 feet to 8,903 feet, averaging 6,516 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.

Unit Ogden terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Willard Peak (9,739 ft), Ben Lomond (9,702 ft), Mount Ogden (9,539 ft), Grizzly Peak (8,733 ft)

Holding ground: Willard Basin (8,951 ft), Strawberry Bowl (8,593 ft), Balsam Basin (7,640 ft), Cooper Spring, Pets 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 Ogden

UDWR's own harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit Ogden at rifle 70%. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: walk the willow bottoms slowly at first and last light and look for fresh browse before you look for the animal.

Glassing from Floyd Iverson Ridge, Strawberry Peak and Sharp Mountain

Take a position on one of Floyd Iverson Ridge (9,311 ft), Strawberry Peak (9,213 ft), Sharp Mountain (9,070 ft) and Cobabe Peak (9,007 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. 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, late September bulls answer a cow call near water.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 76/43°F, Oct 62/33°F and Nov 47/25°F. Warm afternoons compress the hunting into the first and last hour, and make meat care the day's real problem rather than the shot. Precipitation runs about 1.7 in. in Sep, 2.8 in. in Oct and 2.4 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

The way in: USFS Road 054, I-84 and I-15

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones UDWR draws the boundary with: USFS Road 054, I-84 and I-15. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Check each of them on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a line on a boundary description is not a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Willard Peak, Ben Lomond, Mount Ogden and Grizzly Peak as places to see from, and Willard Basin, Strawberry Bowl, Balsam Basin and Cooper Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

633 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 4,597 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.

What we can't tell you

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 the season rather than during it. Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

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.

Moose: where to put the shot

Broadside, behind the shoulder and a third up. Moose look slow to react — the first shot has to count.

Shots to refuse

Where it falls decides your next two days. Avoid shots that drop a moose in water or a bog.
A .30-06 class cartridge minimum, with a bullet built for heavy bone.

Plan the carry: roughly 350– 500 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — four or more large coolers, or a processor. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Moose Success Rates

Rifle70%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no Shiras moose row for unit Ogden 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)	7	0	0.0%	3
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	814	0.1%	3
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident)	7	1,502	0.5%	28
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	28

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

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UDWR's 2025 draw recap for Shiras moose in unit Ogden, 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: 1,502 applicants for 7 licences, 0.5% drawn, 28 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 Ogden

Unit Ogden lies in Box Elder, Cache, Morgan and Weber counties and covers about 633 square miles. Ground runs from 4,306 to 8,903 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 Ogden

What UDWR publishes for unit Ogden is a boundary, not a mule deer 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 Box Elder, Cache, Morgan and Weber counties. It runs to about 633 square miles.

What bounds unit Ogden

UDWR draws unit Ogden in Box Elder, Cache, Morgan and Weber counties with a boundary that runs on USFS Road 054, I-84 and I-15, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: James Peak, Inspiration Point and De Moisy Peak

Named high points inside the unit include James Peak at 9,386 feet, Inspiration Point at 9,367 feet, De Moisy Peak at 9,329 feet, Floyd Iverson Ridge at 9,311 feet and Strawberry Peak at 9,213 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.

Holding ground: Bear Wallow, Malans Basin and Browns Hole

Below them sit Bear Wallow at 6,994 feet, Malans Basin at 6,904 feet, Browns Hole at 6,688 feet, Bear Hollow at 6,679 feet and Sink Hole at 6,584 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: Bear Spring, Rock Spring and Maple Springs

Named sources include Bear Spring, Rock Spring, Maple Springs, Olsens Spring, Big Spring and Cooper 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 Ogden terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Willard Peak (9,739 ft), Ben Lomond (9,702 ft), Mount Ogden (9,539 ft), Grizzly Peak (8,733 ft)

Holding ground: Willard Basin (8,951 ft), Strawberry Bowl (8,593 ft), Balsam Basin (7,640 ft), Cooper Spring, Pets 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 Ogden

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Ogden 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 John Paul Ridge, Grizzly Peak and The Needles

Take a position on one of John Paul Ridge (8,901 ft), Grizzly Peak (8,733 ft), The Needles (8,710 ft) and Chilly Peak (8,605 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. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

The way in: USFS Road 054, I-84 and I-15

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones UDWR draws the boundary with: USFS Road 054, I-84 and I-15. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Park on the boundary and walk; a unit you can only enter from its rim rewards whoever is willing to leave the truck at the rim.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Willard Peak, Ben Lomond, Mount Ogden and Grizzly Peak as places to see from, and Willard Basin, Strawberry Bowl, Balsam Basin and Cooper 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

633 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 4,597 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.

What we can't tell you

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 the season rather than during it. Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

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

Muzzleloader20%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Ogden 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)	235	239	98.3%	—
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	3	66.7%	—
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	364	473	77.0%	1
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	7	7	100.0%	1
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	932	1,487	62.7%	1
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	36	40	90.0%	1

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

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 1,487 applicants for 932 licences, 62.7% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 473 applicants for 364 licences, 77% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 41 applicants for 11 licences, 26.8% drawn, 11 bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 40 applicants for 36 licences, 90% drawn, 1 bonus point 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.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

4 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Port Ramp Marina, Anderson Cove (Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, UT) and Middle Inlet Group Day Use.

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Road Conditions

Roughly 0 mi paved, 0 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

4,306–8,903 ft, averaging 6,516. More than 4,000 feet of relief, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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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 76/43°F, 1.7 in.; Oct 62/33°F, 2.8 in.; Nov 47/25°F, 2.4 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 21%, AT&T 14%, T-Mobile 7% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Ogden?

Unit Ogden lies in Box Elder, Cache, Morgan and Weber counties. UDWR draws unit Ogden with a boundary that runs on USFS Road 054, I-84 and I-15, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It covers about 633 square miles.

What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit Ogden?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit Ogden at rifle 70% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Can you hunt unit Ogden on public land?

What is the mule deer success rate in unit Ogden?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Ogden at muzzleloader 20% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

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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