Utah Mule Deer Antelope

Unit Pine Valley

Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Antelope

Unit Pine Valley lies in Iron and Washington counties and covers about 2,603 square miles. Ground runs from 3,184 to 7,989 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 Pine Valley

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit Pine Valley

What UDWR publishes for unit Pine Valley is a boundary, not a mule deer map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Iron and Washington counties. It runs to about 2,603 square miles.

What bounds unit Pine Valley

UDWR draws unit Pine Valley in Iron and Washington counties with a boundary that runs on I-15, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Signal Peak, Burger Peak and Big Point

Named high points inside the unit include Signal Peak at 10,358 feet, Burger Peak at 10,294 feet, Big Point at 10,000 feet, Pine Valley Mountains at 9,941 feet and Pine Ridge at 9,720 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: Teds Pasture, Mill Flat and Bare Valley

Below them sit Teds Pasture at 8,885 feet, Mill Flat at 8,607 feet, Bare Valley at 8,552 feet, Anderson Valley at 8,477 feet and Sheep Pens at 8,380 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Water: Calf Springs, Eightmile Springs and Crystal Springs

Named sources include Calf Springs, Eightmile Springs, Crystal Springs, Antelope Springs, Willow Spring and Rock 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 3,184 feet to 7,989 feet, averaging 5,590 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.

Unit Pine Valley terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Signal Peak (10,358 ft), Big Point (10,000 ft), Pine Ridge (9,720 ft), Gardner Peak (9,472 ft)

Holding ground: Deer Flat (9,826 ft), North Valley (9,176 ft), Teds Pasture (8,885 ft), Calf Springs, Eightmile Springs

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 Pine Valley

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Pine Valley 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 Mount Baldy, Rencher Peak and Flat Top Mountain

Take a position on one of Mount Baldy (8,868 ft), Rencher Peak (8,777 ft), Flat Top Mountain (8,733 ft) and The Bench (8,575 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. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 82/48°F, Oct 68/37°F and Nov 55/27°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 1.1 in. in Sep, 1.4 in. in Oct and 1.1 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Signal Peak, Big Point, Pine Ridge and Gardner Peak as places to see from, and Deer Flat, North Valley, Teds Pasture and Calf Springs 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

2,603 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 4,805 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

What we can't tell you

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

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UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Pine Valley 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)	353	494	71.5%	—
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	40	128	31.3%	—
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	372	612	60.8%	—
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	42	149	28.2%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	330	1,071	30.8%	—
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	37	213	17.4%	—

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

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 3,434 applicants for 557 licences, 16.2% drawn, no bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 612 applicants for 372 licences, 60.8% drawn, no bonus points needed
Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 519 applicants for 63 licences, 12.1% drawn, no bonus points needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 163 applicants for 12 licences, 7.4% drawn, 16 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.

Antelope Hunting in Unit Pine Valley

Unit Pine Valley lies in Iron and Washington counties and covers about 2,603 square miles. Ground runs from 3,184 to 7,989 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit pronghorn 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 Pronghorn in Unit Pine Valley

UDWR's material on unit Pine Valley stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its pronghorn live. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Iron and Washington counties. It runs to about 2,603 square miles.

What bounds unit Pine Valley

UDWR draws unit Pine Valley in Iron and Washington counties with a boundary that runs on 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. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Gardner Peak, Saddle Mountain and Timber Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Gardner Peak at 9,472 feet, Saddle Mountain at 9,050 feet, Timber Mountain at 8,969 feet, Mount Baldy at 8,868 feet and Rencher Peak at 8,777 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem.

Holding ground: Jodes Flat, Jodes Flat and Mahogany Point

Below them sit Jodes Flat at 8,343 feet, Jodes Flat at 8,197 feet, Mahogany Point at 8,029 feet, Long Flat at 7,967 feet and Bens Pasture at 7,929 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: Cottonwood Spring, Terry Spring and Pendleton Spring

Named sources include Cottonwood Spring, Terry Spring, Pendleton Spring, Dads Spring, Pinto Spring and Oak 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 Pine Valley terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Signal Peak (10,358 ft), Big Point (10,000 ft), Pine Ridge (9,720 ft), Gardner Peak (9,472 ft)

Holding ground: Deer Flat (9,826 ft), North Valley (9,176 ft), Teds Pasture (8,885 ft), Calf Springs, Eightmile Springs

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 Pronghorn in Unit Pine Valley

UDWR publishes no pronghorn success figure for unit Pine Valley that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: spot from a vehicle or a rise at distance, then plan a stalk that uses the only cover there is — the curve of the ground.

Glassing from Stoddard Mountain, Trail Peak and Harmony Mountains

Take a position on one of Stoddard Mountain (8,367 ft), Trail Peak (8,293 ft), Harmony Mountains (8,179 ft) and Atchinson Mountain (7,853 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. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Signal Peak, Big Point, Pine Ridge and Gardner Peak as places to see from, and Deer Flat, North Valley, Teds Pasture and Calf Springs 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

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. We have no pronghorn success figure for this unit that survives checking against UDWR's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

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.

Antelope: where to put the shot

Broadside, straight up the front leg, a third of the way into the body. Pronghorn are shallow-chested and the lungs sit forward.

Shots to refuse

Range it, then range it again. Open country makes 400 yards look like 250.
Wait for the buck to stop. Nobody kills a running pronghorn cleanly on purpose.
Mind the backdrop. A miss carries a long way across a flat.

Plan the carry: roughly 30– 45 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — one large cooler with ice already in it. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Antelope Success Rates

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no pronghorn row for unit Pine Valley 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.

Antelope Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	19	131	14.5%	11
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	116	1.7%	11
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	7	9	77.8%	3
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	14	7.1%	3
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	7	15	46.7%	2
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	21	4.8%	2
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	20	120	16.7%	6
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	83	2.4%	6

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

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UDWR's draw recap has no pronghorn record we can tie to unit Pine Valley. That usually means the licence is sold over the counter, is issued under a hunt code covering several units, or was not offered in the years we hold. Rather than estimate a point requirement, we leave it blank — check UDWR's own draw recap for the hunt code you mean to apply for.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

6 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Quail Creek Trail, White Reef Trail and High Grade Trail.

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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

3,184–7,989 ft, averaging 5,590. 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 82/48°F, 1.1 in.; Oct 68/37°F, 1.4 in.; Nov 55/27°F, 1.1 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 Pine Valley?

Unit Pine Valley lies in Iron and Washington counties. UDWR draws unit Pine Valley with a boundary that runs on I-15, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It covers about 2,603 square miles.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit Pine Valley?

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

Can you hunt unit Pine Valley on public land?

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit Pine Valley?

UDWR publishes no pronghorn success figure we can tie to unit Pine Valley on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check UDWR's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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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