Unit Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits (Boulder/Kaiparowits)
Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer
Unit Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits lies in Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties. 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 Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits
Unit Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits lies in Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties. 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 Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits
What UDWR publishes for unit Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits 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 Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties.
What bounds unit Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits
UDWR draws unit Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits in Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties with a boundary that runs on Paria River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. 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: Bluebell Knoll, Boulder Mountain and Pinto Knoll
Named high points inside the unit include Bluebell Knoll at 11,324 feet, Boulder Mountain at 11,324 feet, Pinto Knoll at 11,123 feet, Lookout Peak at 11,119 feet and Bowns Point at 10,942 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.
Holding ground: West Boulder Draw, Broken Draw and Stink Draw
Below them sit West Boulder Draw at 10,874 feet, Broken Draw at 10,863 feet, Stink Draw at 10,821 feet, Oak Draw at 10,759 feet and Pleasant Creek Meadow at 10,721 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: Billy Spring, Dipping Vat Spring and Lost Spring
Named sources include Billy Spring, Dipping Vat Spring, Lost Spring, Parker Springs, Cougar Spring and Jackass 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 Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up · figures are for GMU Plateau, Boulder
The lay of it
- 5,892–11,138 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 8,426 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
- 1,849.2 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
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
- 561 tanks
- 142 springs
- 577 stream segments
- 54 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: Bluebell Knoll (11,324 ft), Pinto Knoll (11,123 ft), Lookout Peak (11,119 ft), Bowns Point (10,942 ft)
Holding ground: Donkey Meadows (11,224 ft), Riddle Flat (11,125 ft), Beef Meadows (11,074 ft), Billy Spring, Dipping Vat 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 Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits
Mule Deer Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits 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) | 6 | 50 | 12.0% | 7 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 32 | 3.1% | 7 |
Data from 2023 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2023 draw recap for mule deer in unit Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 50 applicants for 6 licences, 12% drawn, 7 bonus points needed
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 32 applicants for 1 licences, 3.1% drawn, 7 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