Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal (Diamond Mtn/Vernal)
Utah Hunting Guide — Moose
Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal lies in Daggett and Uintah counties and covers about 1,663 square miles. Ground runs from 4,749 to 9,764 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 70%. 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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Moose Hunting in Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal
Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal lies in Daggett and Uintah counties and covers about 1,663 square miles. Ground runs from 4,749 to 9,764 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 70%. 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 Shiras Moose in Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal
What UDWR publishes for unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal is a boundary, not a Shiras moose map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Daggett and Uintah counties. It runs to about 1,663 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Green River, Flaming Gorge Reservoir and Cart Creek
UDWR draws unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal in Daggett and Uintah counties with a boundary that runs on USFS Trail #025, and on Green River, Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Cart Creek and Uinta Mountains, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Marsh Peak, Leidy Peak and Mesa
Named high points inside the unit include Marsh Peak at 12,238 feet, Leidy Peak at 12,029 feet, Mesa at 11,002 feet, Paradise Peak at 10,814 feet and Trout Creek Peak at 10,496 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.
Holding ground: Summit Park, Lonesome Park and Hells Kitchen Park
Below them sit Summit Park at 10,414 feet, Lonesome Park at 10,403 feet, Hells Kitchen Park at 10,236 feet, Big Park at 10,233 feet and Corral Park at 10,138 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: Bear Seep, East End Spring and June Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 307 mapped stream reaches, 96 lakes, 166 stock tanks and 80 springs. Named sources include Bear Seep, East End Spring, June Spring, Ashley Spring, Barker Spring and Paradise Spring. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.
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 4,749 feet to 9,764 feet, averaging 6,897 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.
Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,749–9,764 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,897 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
- 1,662.8 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
- 166 tanks
- 80 springs
- 307 stream segments
- 96 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: Marsh Peak (12,238 ft), Leidy Peak (12,029 ft), Mesa (11,002 ft), Trout Creek Peak (10,496 ft)
Holding ground: Gabbro Pass (11,683 ft), Johnson Park (10,747 ft), Lightning Park (10,595 ft), Bear Seep, East End 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 Shiras Moose in Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal
Moose Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no Shiras moose row for unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal 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.
Moose Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 2 | 396 | 0.5% | 13 |
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 Shiras moose in unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn/vernal, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 396 applicants for 2 licences, 0.5% drawn, 13 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