Unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central (Wasatch Mtns)
Utah Hunting Guide — Bear
Unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. 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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Bear Hunting in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central
Unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. 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 Black Bear in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central
UDWR's material on unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its black bear live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties.
The lines of the unit: Salt Lake and Upper Corner Canyon
UDWR draws unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central in Carbon, Duchesne, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties with a boundary that runs on I-15, and on Salt Lake and Upper Corner Canyon, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. 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 Timpanogos, Twin Peaks and White Baldy
Named high points inside the unit include Mount Timpanogos at 11,728 feet, Twin Peaks at 11,461 feet, White Baldy at 11,283 feet, The Pfeifferhorn at 11,283 feet and Twin Peaks at 11,277 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears follow food, which in early autumn means oakbrush, chokecherry and serviceberry on south slopes.
Holding ground: Guardsman Pass, Cascade Cirque and Gad Valley
Below them sit Guardsman Pass at 9,692 feet, Cascade Cirque at 9,584 feet, Gad Valley at 9,556 feet, Big Provo Cirque at 9,526 feet and Smith Basin at 9,482 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.
Water: Beaver Ponds Springs, Number 10 Spring and Montreal Spring
Named sources include Beaver Ponds Springs, Number 10 Spring, Montreal Spring, Neffs Spring, Mount Olympus Spring and Castilla Springs. 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.
Unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up · figures are for GMU Wasatch Mtns, West
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Mount Timpanogos (11,728 ft), Twin Peaks (11,461 ft), White Baldy (11,283 ft)
Holding ground: Timpanogos Basin (10,211 ft), Mineral Flat (10,174 ft), Roundy Basin (9,817 ft), Beaver Ponds Springs, Number 10 Spring, Montreal 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 Black Bear in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central
Bear Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central 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.
Bear Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident) | 13 | 292 | 4.5% | 21 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 8 | 12.5% | 21 |
Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2024 draw recap for black bear in unit Wasatch Mtns, West-central, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 193 applicants for 40 licences, 20.7% drawn, 13 bonus points needed
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, nonresident: 8 applicants for 4 licences, 50% 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