Unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West (Oquirrh-Stansbury, West)
Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep
Unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West lies in Salt Lake, Tooele and Utah counties and covers about 750 square miles. Ground runs from 4,231 to 7,626 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success here as high as 72%. 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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Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West
Unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West lies in Salt Lake, Tooele and Utah counties and covers about 750 square miles. Ground runs from 4,231 to 7,626 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success here as high as 72%. 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 Bighorn Sheep in Unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West
What UDWR publishes for unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West is a boundary, not a bighorn sheep map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Salt Lake, Tooele and Utah counties. It runs to about 750 square miles.
What bounds unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West
UDWR has unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West Boundary begins at I-80 and SR-36; south on SR-36 to Pony Express Road; west on this road to the Skull Valley road; north on this road to I-80 at Rowley Junction; east on I-80 to SR-36. EXCLUDES ALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST LANDS WITHIN THIS BOUNDARY. Excludes all CWMUs. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Deseret Peak, Vickory Mountain and Bald Mountain
Named high points inside the unit include Deseret Peak at 10,997 feet, Vickory Mountain at 10,282 feet, Bald Mountain at 9,183 feet, Onaqui Mountains at 9,012 feet and Slate Rock Peak at 8,334 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Sheep on lower country still need rock, and on a desert unit the rock is the whole hunt.
Holding ground: Morgan Canyon, Bear Fork and Johnson Pass
Below them sit Morgan Canyon at 6,751 feet, Bear Fork at 6,517 feet, Johnson Pass at 6,422 feet, Abbots Fork at 6,389 feet and Dry Fork at 6,354 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: Scribner Spring, Slater Spring and Clay Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 241 mapped stream reaches, 23 lakes, 72 stock tanks and 108 springs. Named sources include Scribner Spring, Slater Spring, Clay Spring, Sand Spring, Cold 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 National Forest 60%, Private / Other 17%, BLM 15% 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 4,231 feet to 7,626 feet, averaging 5,513 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,231–7,626 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,513 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 750.3 sq mi inside the boundary.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest — 60%
- BLM — 15%
- State Trust — 8%
- Private / Other — 17%
Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 72 tanks
- 108 springs
- 241 stream segments
- 23 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: Deseret Peak (10,997 ft), Vickory Mountain (10,282 ft), Bald Mountain (9,183 ft), Onaqui Mountains (9,012 ft)
Holding ground: Box Elder Pass (8,384 ft), Hickman Pass (7,832 ft), Mill Fork (7,680 ft), Scribner Spring, Slater 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 Bighorn Sheep in Unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West
Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit Oquirrh-stansbury, 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.
Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (resident) | 4 | 473 | 0.8% | 13 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 3 | 383 | 0.8% | 22 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 22 |
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 bighorn sheep in unit Oquirrh-stansbury, West, 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: 383 applicants for 3 licences, 0.8% drawn, 22 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