Unit Wasatch Mtns, East
Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer
Unit Wasatch Mtns, East lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Utah and Wasatch counties and covers about 1,630 square miles. Ground runs from 6,208 to 9,638 feet. 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 Wasatch Mtns, East
Unit Wasatch Mtns, East lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Utah and Wasatch counties and covers about 1,630 square miles. Ground runs from 6,208 to 9,638 feet. 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 Wasatch Mtns, East
UDWR draws an exact line around unit Wasatch Mtns, East and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. 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, Utah and Wasatch counties. It runs to about 1,630 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Strawberry Bay and Indian Creek
UDWR draws unit Wasatch Mtns, East in Carbon, Duchesne, Utah and Wasatch counties with a boundary that runs on USFS Road 042 and USFS Road 051, and on Strawberry Bay and Indian Creek, 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: Red Creek Mountain, Currant Creek Peak and Strawberry Peak
Named high points inside the unit include Red Creek Mountain at 10,582 feet, Currant Creek Peak at 10,541 feet, Strawberry Peak at 10,314 feet, Strawberry North Summit at 10,263 feet and Twelve Hundred Dollar Ridge at 10,206 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: Jones Basin, Harvey Meadow and Low Pass
Below them sit Jones Basin at 9,369 feet, Harvey Meadow at 9,359 feet, Low Pass at 9,345 feet, Scotty Basin at 9,328 feet and Buck Basin at 9,326 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: Split Spring, Red Cedar Spring and Little Mud Spring
Named sources include Split Spring, Red Cedar Spring, Little Mud Spring, Trail Ridge Spring, Mud Spring and Rock 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 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 6,208 feet to 9,638 feet, averaging 8,098 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Wasatch Mtns, East terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Red Creek Mountain (10,582 ft), Currant Creek Peak (10,541 ft), Strawberry Peak (10,314 ft), Duchesne Ridge (10,203 ft)
Holding ground: Roundy Basin (9,817 ft), Coleman Basin (9,807 ft), Wolf Creek Summit (9,478 ft), Split Spring, Red Cedar 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 Wasatch Mtns, East
Mule Deer Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Wasatch Mtns, East 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) | 760 | 996 | 76.3% | 1 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 39 | 40 | 97.5% | 1 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 725 | 1,479 | 49.0% | 1 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 67 | 70 | 95.7% | 1 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 2131 | 5,376 | 39.6% | — |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 237 | 304 | 78.0% | — |
Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2025 draw recap for mule deer in unit Wasatch Mtns, East, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 5,376 applicants for 2,131 licences, 39.6% drawn, no bonus points needed
- Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 1,479 applicants for 725 licences, 49% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 304 applicants for 237 licences, 78% drawn, no bonus points needed
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 221 applicants for 26 licences, 11.8% 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.
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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