Unit Panguitch Lake/zion (Panguitch Lake/Zion)
Utah Hunting Guide — Black Bear
Unit Panguitch Lake/zion lies in Garfield, Iron, Kane and Washington counties. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. 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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Black Bear Hunting in Unit Panguitch Lake/zion
Unit Panguitch Lake/zion lies in Garfield, Iron, Kane and Washington counties. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. 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 Black Bear in Unit Panguitch Lake/zion
UDWR's material on unit Panguitch Lake/zion stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its black bear live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Garfield, Iron, Kane and Washington counties.
What bounds unit Panguitch Lake/zion
UDWR has unit Panguitch Lake/zion Boundary begins at I-15 and the Utah-Arizona state line; north on I-15 to SR-20; east on SR-20 to US-89; south on US-89 to US-89A; south on US-89A to the Utah-Arizona state line; west on this state line to I-15. EXCLUDES ALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST LANDS WITHIN THIS BOUNDARY. EXCLUDES ALL NATIONAL PARKS. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Brian Head, Sidney Peaks and Blowhard Mountain
Named high points inside the unit include Brian Head at 11,304 feet, Sidney Peaks at 10,856 feet, Blowhard Mountain at 10,689 feet, Hancock Peak at 10,598 feet and Horse Valley Peak at 10,565 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears follow food, which in early autumn means oakbrush, chokecherry and serviceberry on south slopes.
Holding ground: Deer Hollow, Midway Valley and Forks Valley
Below them sit Deer Hollow at 9,588 feet, Midway Valley at 9,584 feet, Forks Valley at 9,548 feet, Lava Desert at 9,542 feet and Sage Valley at 9,540 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: Sand Spring, Birch Spring and Navajo Spring
Named sources include Sand Spring, Birch Spring, Navajo Spring, West Spring, Bowers Spring and Anderson 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.
Unit Panguitch Lake/zion terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up · figures are for GMU Panguitch Lake
The lay of it
- 5,805–10,379 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 8,187 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
- 881.8 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
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
- 180 tanks
- 84 springs
- 396 stream segments
- 10 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: Brian Head (11,304 ft), Sidney Peaks (10,856 ft), Blowhard Mountain (10,689 ft), Hancock Peak (10,598 ft)
Holding ground: Mammoth Summit (10,442 ft), Long Flat (10,147 ft), Red Desert (9,670 ft), Sand Spring, Birch 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 Black Bear in Unit Panguitch Lake/zion
Black Bear Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit Panguitch Lake/zion 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.
Black Bear Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident) | 4 | 50 | 8.0% | 18 |
Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2024 draw recap for black bear in unit Panguitch Lake/zion, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 65 applicants for 9 licences, 13.8% drawn, 10 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.
- 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