Unit Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns (Wasatch Mtns/Central Mtns)
Utah Hunting Guide — Moose
Unit Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Emery, Juab and Millard counties and covers about 6,882 square miles. Ground runs from 4,800 to 9,071 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 Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns
Unit Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Emery, Juab and Millard counties and covers about 6,882 square miles. Ground runs from 4,800 to 9,071 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 Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns
UDWR's material on unit Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its Shiras moose live. 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 Carbon, Duchesne, Emery, Juab and Millard counties. It runs to about 6,882 square miles.
What bounds unit Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns
UDWR draws unit Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns in Carbon, Duchesne, Emery, Juab and Millard counties with a boundary that runs on I-15, I-80 and I-70, and on Salt Lake, 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: Mount Nebo, Mount Timpanogos and Wasatch Range
Named high points inside the unit include Mount Nebo at 11,804 feet, Mount Timpanogos at 11,728 feet, Wasatch Range at 11,722 feet, Twin Peaks at 11,461 feet and White Baldy at 11,283 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: Soren Peterson Meadow, Cherry Flat and Timpanogos Basin
Below them sit Soren Peterson Meadow at 10,379 feet, Cherry Flat at 10,233 feet, Timpanogos Basin at 10,211 feet, Red Pine Cove at 10,207 feet and Mineral Flat at 10,174 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.
Water: Goat Ranch Spring, Rock Spring and Coyote Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 7,082 mapped stream reaches, 159 lakes, 1,564 stock tanks and 478 springs. Named sources include Goat Ranch Spring, Rock Spring, Coyote Spring, Beaver Ponds Springs, Number 10 Spring and Montreal 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 32% 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 4,800 feet to 9,071 feet, averaging 7,394 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.
Unit Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,800–9,071 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,394 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
- 6,882 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest — 60%
- State Trust — 8%
- Private / Other — 32%
Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 1,564 tanks
- 478 springs
- 7,082 stream segments
- 159 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: Mount Nebo (11,804 ft), Mount Timpanogos (11,728 ft), Twin Peaks (11,461 ft), White Baldy (11,283 ft)
Holding ground: North Basin (11,265 ft), Baseball Flat (10,563 ft), Horseshoe Flat (10,494 ft), Goat Ranch Spring, Rock 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 Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns
Moose Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no Shiras moose row for unit Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns 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) | 19 | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 2,941 | 0.0% | — |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 18 | 7,814 | 0.2% | 28 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 2 | 2,893 | 0.1% | 28 |
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 Shiras moose in unit Wasatch Mtns/central Mtns, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 7,814 applicants for 18 licences, 0.2% drawn, 28 bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 2,893 applicants for 2 licences, 0.1% drawn, 28 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