Unit San Rafael, Dirty Devil
Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep
Unit San Rafael, Dirty Devil lies in Emery, Garfield and Wayne counties and covers about 2,048 square miles. Ground runs from 4,064 to 6,624 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 San Rafael, Dirty Devil
Unit San Rafael, Dirty Devil lies in Emery, Garfield and Wayne counties and covers about 2,048 square miles. Ground runs from 4,064 to 6,624 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 San Rafael, Dirty Devil
UDWR draws an exact line around unit San Rafael, Dirty Devil and says nothing about where the bighorn sheep stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Emery, Garfield and Wayne counties. It runs to about 2,048 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Green River and Colorado River
UDWR has unit San Rafael, Dirty Devil Boundary begins at the junction of I-70 and the Green River; south along the Green River to the Colorado River; south along the Colorado River and the west shore of Lake Powell to SR-95; north on SR-95 to SR-24 in Hanksville; north on SR-24 to I-70; east on I-70 to the Green River. EXCLUDES ALL NATIONAL PARKS. 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: Lands End, North Block and The Block
Named high points inside the unit include Lands End at 7,142 feet, North Block at 7,058 feet, The Block at 7,058 feet, The Big Ridge at 7,021 feet and Red Point at 6,982 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: Coyote Flat, China Neck and Flint Cove
Below them sit Coyote Flat at 6,097 feet, China Neck at 5,982 feet, Flint Cove at 5,958 feet, Sunset Pass at 5,921 feet and Burr Pass at 5,838 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.
Water: Johns Spring, Bluejohn Spring and French Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 1,006 mapped stream reaches, 14 lakes, 87 stock tanks and 86 springs. Named sources include Johns Spring, Bluejohn Spring, French Spring, Crows Nest Spring, Twin Springs and Upper Dugout 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 85% and BLM 15%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 4,064 feet to 6,624 feet, averaging 5,118 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit San Rafael, Dirty Devil terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,064–6,624 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 5,118 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 2,048.3 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
Who owns the ground
- BLM — 15%
- Private / Other — 85%
Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 87 tanks
- 86 springs
- 1,006 stream segments
- 14 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: North Block (7,058 ft), Red Point (6,982 ft), South Block (6,750 ft), The Sewing Machine (6,590 ft)
Holding ground: Hans Flats (6,406 ft), Twin Corral Flats (6,210 ft), Lost Park (6,122 ft), Johns Spring, Bluejohn 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 San Rafael, Dirty Devil
Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit San Rafael, Dirty Devil 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) | 6 | 499 | 1.2% | 10 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (nonresident) | 1 | 1,801 | 0.1% | 10 |
| Archery — Limited Entry ram only (resident) | 2 | 197 | 1.0% | 10 |
| Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 2 | 224 | 0.9% | 23 |
| Archery — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 23 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 5 | 490 | 1.0% | 26 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 2 | 2,091 | 0.1% | 26 |
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 San Rafael, Dirty Devil, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 2,091 applicants for 2 licences, 0.1% drawn, 26 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 490 applicants for 5 licences, 1% drawn, 26 bonus points needed
- Archery, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 224 applicants for 2 licences, 0.9% drawn, 23 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