Unit Old Woman Plateau
Utah Hunting Guide — Elk
Unit Old Woman Plateau is a hunt unit. 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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Elk Hunting in Unit Old Woman Plateau
Unit Old Woman Plateau is a hunt unit. 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.
Where to Find Elk in Unit Old Woman Plateau
UDWR publishes no per-unit account of elk in unit Old Woman Plateau, so what follows is a read of the ground inside the unit line. It runs to about 12 square miles.
Old Woman Plateau is private land, not public ground
Old Woman Plateau is a Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit — private land enrolled with UDWR under rule R657-37, not public country you can walk onto. UDWR requires a CWMU to hold at least 10,000 contiguous acres to manage elk or moose, so the unit is one block of ground under one operator rather than a patchwork. This one covers about 12 square miles by UDWR's own polygon. Your permit is valid on this CWMU and nowhere else — UDWR states you may hunt only on the CWMU printed on the permit. So the question is not which drainage to start in. It is whether you can get a permit at all, and then what the operator lets you hunt.
Holding ground: Balsam Hollow
Below them sit Balsam Hollow at 7,865 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
What is published about unit Old Woman Plateau, and what is not
The public datasets name one terrain feature inside this unit, and no agency access property at all. That is the finding. Ground this size held privately is farmed and grazed rather than mapped, and the hunt starts as a conversation with a landowner rather than a route. What the unit does have is 12 square miles of it, and the elk living on it are there whether or not anyone has mapped a name onto the ground. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.
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.
Unit Old Woman Plateau terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Holding ground: Balsam Hollow (7,865 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 Elk in Unit Old Woman Plateau
Elk Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit Old Woman Plateau 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 2 | 67 | 3.0% | 1 |
| Any Legal Weapon — CWMU bull/buck only (resident) | 2 | 53 | 3.8% | 24 |
| Any Legal Weapon — CWMU bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 24 |
| Any Legal Weapon — CWMU antlerless (resident) | 4 | 38 | 10.5% | — |
| Any Legal Weapon — CWMU antlerless (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | — |
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 elk in unit Old Woman Plateau, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, CWMU, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 53 applicants for 2 licences, 3.8% drawn, 24 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, CWMU, Antlerless, resident: 38 applicants for 4 licences, 10.5% drawn, no 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
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- Cooperative Wildlife Management Units — programme rules (administrative rule R657-37) — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: CWMUs are private land enrolled with UDWR under rule R657-37, Minimum 5,000 contiguous acres for deer, pronghorn or turkey; 10,000 for elk or moose, Residents may apply in the public drawing or take an operator voucher; nonresidents may only take a voucher, A CWMU permit is valid only on the CWMU printed on it, Public hunters must get opportunity and acreage comparable to private hunters, Harvest must be reported within 30 days of the hunt, whether or not an animal was taken · accessed 2026-10-24
- UDWR Hunt Boundaries — boundary descriptions from the Hunt Planner boundary layer — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: Mapped extent of the CWMU, UDWR's private-land and trust-land note, 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