Utah Elk Mule Deer

Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn (Diamond Mtn)

Utah Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer

Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn lies in Daggett and Uintah counties and covers about 415 square miles. Ground runs from 5,772 to 8,323 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 28%. 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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Elk Hunting in Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn

Where to Find Elk in Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn

What UDWR publishes for unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn is a boundary, not a elk 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 Daggett and Uintah counties. It runs to about 415 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Green River, Gorge Creek and Diamond Mountain

UDWR draws unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn in Daggett and Uintah counties with a boundary that runs on Green River, Gorge Creek, Diamond Mountain and Brush Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Hoy Mountain, Red Knoll and Diamond Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Hoy Mountain at 8,834 feet, Red Knoll at 7,826 feet, Diamond Mountain at 7,787 feet, Boone Ridge at 6,678 feet and Uinta Mountains at 6,380 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.

Holding ground: Betts Cove, Dry Hollow and Diamond Mountain Plateau

Below them sit Betts Cove at 7,656 feet, Dry Hollow at 7,636 feet, Diamond Mountain Plateau at 7,494 feet, Warren Draw at 7,364 feet and Bear Hollow at 7,313 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: Sears Spring, Spitzenberg Spring and Limestone Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 21 mapped stream reaches, 13 lakes and 14 stock tanks. Named sources include Sears Spring, Spitzenberg Spring, Limestone Spring, Boone Spring, Jones Hole Springs and Coal Bed 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 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 5,772 feet to 8,323 feet, averaging 7,147 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,772–8,323 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,147 ft ; peaks can run higher.
415.3 sq mi inside the boundary.

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

14 tanks
21 stream segments
13 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: Hoy Mountain (8,834 ft), Boone Ridge (6,678 ft), Uinta Mountains (6,380 ft), Jensen Ridge (5,859 ft)

Holding ground: Felix Pass (8,003 ft), Dead Horse Pass (7,739 ft), Mail Draw (7,175 ft), Sears Spring, Spitzenberg 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 Elk in Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn

UDWR's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn at rifle 28%, muzzleloader 22% and archery 18%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

Glassing from Hoy Mountain, Red Knoll and Diamond Mountain

Take a position on one of Hoy Mountain (8,834 ft), Red Knoll (7,826 ft), Diamond Mountain (7,787 ft) and Boone Ridge (6,678 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 21 mapped stream reaches and 14 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 79/44°F, Oct 64/33°F and Nov 48/23°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 1.3 in. in Sep, 1.3 in. in Oct and 0.5 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: CR 1430 and CR 1410

There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Hoy Mountain, Boone Ridge, Uinta Mountains and Jensen Ridge as places to see from, and Felix Pass, Dead Horse Pass, Mail Draw and Sears Spring 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

415 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Browns Park, about 13 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

Getting in and staying out: unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn

Named routes and what they need

CR 1430 — 8.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CR 1410 — 8.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Crouse Canyon Road — 7.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Blair Spring Road — 7.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CR 1130 — 4.3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Marshal Drive — 3.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Browns Park — 12.7 mi · no services listed
Dutch John — 18 mi · no services listed
Vernal — 23.5 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Naples — 24 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Maeser — 24.6 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear

Developed camps

Bridge Hollow Campground (BLM) · reservable
River Overlook Primitive Camp
Red Creek Camp 1, 2
Indian Crossing Campground
Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery

Season weather and signal

Jan36° / 12° · 0.6" precip
Aug88° / 52° · 1" precip
Sep79° / 44° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 33° · 1.3" precip
Nov48° / 23° · 0.5" precip
Dec37° / 13° · 0.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

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.

Elk: 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. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

Rifle28%

Muzzleloader22%

Archery18%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn 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.

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	13	111	11.7%	11
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	29	6.9%	11
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	12	119	10.1%	10
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	41	2.4%	10
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	4	0	0.0%	1
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	5	20.0%	1

Data from 2023 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2023 draw recap for elk in unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Rifle, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 410 applicants for 7 licences, 1.7% drawn, 15 bonus points needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 119 applicants for 12 licences, 10.1% drawn, 10 bonus points needed
Rifle, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 113 applicants for 1 licences, 0.9% drawn, 15 bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 103 applicants for 20 licences, 19.4% drawn, 12 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.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn

Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn lies in Daggett and Uintah counties and covers about 415 square miles. Ground runs from 5,772 to 8,323 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 25%. 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 South Slope, Diamond Mtn

What UDWR publishes for unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn is a boundary, not a mule deer 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 415 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Green River, Gorge Creek and Diamond Mountain

UDWR draws unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn in Daggett and Uintah counties with a boundary that runs on Green River, Gorge Creek, Diamond Mountain and Brush Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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: Jensen Ridge, The Reef and McKee Bench

Named high points inside the unit include Jensen Ridge at 5,859 feet, The Reef at 5,843 feet, McKee Bench at 5,593 feet, Hoy Mountain at 8,834 feet and Red Knoll at 7,826 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: Head of Rye Grass, Willow Spring Draw and Wagon Hollow

Below them sit Head of Rye Grass at 7,309 feet, Willow Spring Draw at 7,281 feet, Wagon Hollow at 7,260 feet, Jackson Draw at 7,211 feet and Diamond Valley at 7,203 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: Sears Spring, Spitzenberg Spring and Limestone Spring

Before you apply: who owns this unit

Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,772–8,323 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,147 ft ; peaks can run higher.
415.3 sq mi inside the boundary.

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

14 tanks
21 stream segments
13 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: Hoy Mountain (8,834 ft), Boone Ridge (6,678 ft), Uinta Mountains (6,380 ft), Jensen Ridge (5,859 ft)

Holding ground: Felix Pass (8,003 ft), Dead Horse Pass (7,739 ft), Mail Draw (7,175 ft), Sears Spring, Spitzenberg 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 South Slope, Diamond Mtn

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn at archery 16%, rifle 25% and 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 Uinta Mountains, Jensen Ridge and The Reef

Take a position on one of Uinta Mountains (6,380 ft), Jensen Ridge (5,859 ft), The Reef (5,843 ft) and McKee Bench (5,593 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: CR 1430 and CR 1410

There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Hoy Mountain, Boone Ridge, Uinta Mountains and Jensen Ridge as places to see from, and Felix Pass, Dead Horse Pass, Mail Draw and Sears Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What a day here costs you

415 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Browns Park, about 13 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. Leave the truck earlier than you want to and you will hunt the best half-hour of the day.

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.

Getting in and staying out: unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn

Named routes and what they need

CR 1430 — 8.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CR 1410 — 8.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Crouse Canyon Road — 7.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Blair Spring Road — 7.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CR 1130 — 4.3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Marshal Drive — 3.4 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Browns Park — 12.7 mi · no services listed
Dutch John — 18 mi · no services listed
Vernal — 23.5 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Naples — 24 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Maeser — 24.6 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear

Developed camps

Bridge Hollow Campground (BLM) · reservable
River Overlook Primitive Camp
Red Creek Camp 1, 2
Indian Crossing Campground
Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery

Season weather and signal

Jan36° / 12° · 0.6" precip
Aug88° / 52° · 1" precip
Sep79° / 44° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 33° · 1.3" precip
Nov48° / 23° · 0.5" precip
Dec37° / 13° · 0.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

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

Archery16%

Rifle25%

Muzzleloader20%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn 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
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	18	260	6.9%	11
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	109	1.8%	11
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	3	88	3.4%	4
Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	5	259	1.9%	14
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	18	216	8.3%	15
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	2	49	4.1%	15

Data from 2023 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2023 draw recap for mule deer in unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 260 applicants for 18 licences, 6.9% drawn, 11 bonus points needed
Rifle, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 259 applicants for 5 licences, 1.9% drawn, 14 bonus points needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 216 applicants for 18 licences, 8.3% drawn, 15 bonus points needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 109 applicants for 2 licences, 1.8% drawn, 11 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 1 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.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

6 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Bridge Hollow Campground (BLM), River Overlook Primitive Camp and Red Creek Camp 1, 2.

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Road Conditions

CR 1430, CR 1410 and Crouse Canyon Road are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 8 mi paved, 36 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

5,772–8,323 ft, averaging 7,147. Enough relief to separate summer from winter range.

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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 79/44°F, 1.3 in.; Oct 64/33°F, 1.3 in.; Nov 48/23°F, 0.5 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 15%, AT&T 10%, T-Mobile 5% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Browns Park (13 mi), Dutch John (18 mi), Vernal (24 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn?

Unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn lies in Daggett and Uintah counties. UDWR draws unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn with a boundary that runs on Green River, Gorge Creek, Diamond Mountain and Brush Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It covers about 415 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn at rifle 28%, muzzleloader 22% and archery 18% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn are at Browns Park, about 13 miles from the unit's centre, with Dutch John at about 18 miles. There are also 6 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

Can you hunt unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn on public land?

What is the mule deer success rate in unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit South Slope, Diamond Mtn at archery 16%, rifle 25% and muzzleloader 20% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

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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