Utah Bighorn Sheep Mule Deer

Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer

Unit Wasatch Mtns, West lies in Salt Lake, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties and covers about 1,220 square miles. Ground runs from 4,547 to 9,518 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success here as high as 72%. 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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Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

Where to Find Bighorn Sheep in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

UDWR's material on unit Wasatch Mtns, West stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its bighorn sheep live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Salt Lake, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties. It runs to about 1,220 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Salt Lake, Strawberry Bay and Indian Creek

UDWR draws unit Wasatch Mtns, West in Salt Lake, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties with a boundary that runs on I-80, I-15, USFS Road 042 and USFS Road 051, and on Salt Lake, Strawberry Bay and Indian Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: 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. Sheep need rock to escape into and will not stand far from it.

Holding ground: Cascade Cirque, Gad Valley and Big Provo Cirque

Below them sit Cascade Cirque at 9,584 feet, Gad Valley at 9,556 feet, Big Provo Cirque at 9,526 feet, Scotts Pass at 9,469 feet and Fourth Hole at 9,411 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: Beaver Ponds Springs, Number 10 Spring and Montreal Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 5,064 mapped stream reaches, 63 lakes, 987 stock tanks and 232 springs. Named sources include Beaver Ponds Springs, Number 10 Spring, Montreal Spring, Neffs Spring, Mount Olympus Spring and Castilla Springs. 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 4,547 feet to 9,518 feet, averaging 7,001 — 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, West terrain and land status

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

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), Big Provo Cirque (9,526 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 Bighorn Sheep in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

UDWR's own harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success in unit Wasatch Mtns, West at rifle 72%. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: pick a glassing position across from the escape terrain and stay on it for hours, not minutes.

Glassing from Box Elder Peak, Dromedary Peak and Mount Baldy

Take a position on one of Box Elder Peak (11,062 ft), Dromedary Peak (11,057 ft), Mount Baldy (11,039 ft) and Sugarloaf Mountain (11,037 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, late hunts put rams with ewe groups on the same rock.

Water against feed

There are 5,064 mapped stream reaches and 987 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 76/41°F, Oct 63/32°F and Nov 48/24°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 1.4 in. in Sep, 2 in. in Oct and 1.8 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

The way in: I-80, I-15 and USFS Road 042

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones UDWR draws the boundary with: I-80, I-15, USFS Road 042 and USFS Road 051. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Park on the boundary and walk; a unit you can only enter from its rim rewards whoever is willing to leave the truck at the rim.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Mount Timpanogos, Twin Peaks and White Baldy as places to see from, and Timpanogos Basin, Mineral Flat, Big Provo Cirque and Beaver Ponds Springs as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

What a day here costs you

1,220 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 4,971 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

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.

Bighorn Sheep: 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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Bighorn Sheep Success Rates

Rifle72%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit Wasatch Mtns, West 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.

Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (resident)	4	819	0.5%	13
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident)	2	778	0.3%	27
Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	27

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2025 draw recap for bighorn sheep in unit Wasatch Mtns, West, 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: 778 applicants for 2 licences, 0.3% drawn, 27 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.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

Unit Wasatch Mtns, West lies in Salt Lake, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties and covers about 1,220 square miles. Ground runs from 4,547 to 9,518 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, West

What UDWR publishes for unit Wasatch Mtns, West 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 Salt Lake, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties. It runs to about 1,220 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Salt Lake, Strawberry Bay and Indian Creek

UDWR draws unit Wasatch Mtns, West in Salt Lake, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties with a boundary that runs on I-80, I-15, USFS Road 042 and USFS Road 051, and on Salt Lake, Strawberry Bay and Indian Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: O'Sullivan Peak, Lone Peak and Superior Peak

Named high points inside the unit include O'Sullivan Peak at 11,243 feet, Lone Peak at 11,192 feet, Superior Peak at 11,089 feet, Box Elder Peak at 11,062 feet and Dromedary Peak at 11,057 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: Mineral Basin, Albion Basin and Third Hole

Below them sit Mineral Basin at 9,398 feet, Albion Basin at 9,372 feet, Third Hole at 9,253 feet, Vina Flat at 9,051 feet and Mill A Basin at 9,031 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: Clyde Spring, Boardman Spring and Mill Canyon Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 5,064 mapped stream reaches, 63 lakes, 987 stock tanks and 232 springs. Named sources include Clyde Spring, Boardman Spring, Mill Canyon Spring, Big Spring, Cascade Springs and Cabin 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

Unit Wasatch Mtns, West terrain and land status

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

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), Big Provo Cirque (9,526 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 Mule Deer in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

UDWR's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Wasatch Mtns, West at 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 Roberts Horn, Hidden Peak and Provo Peak

Take a position on one of Roberts Horn (10,968 ft), Hidden Peak (10,944 ft), Provo Peak (10,922 ft) and Cascade Mountain (10,835 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 5,064 mapped stream reaches and 987 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. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

The way in: I-80, I-15 and USFS Road 042

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones UDWR draws the boundary with: I-80, I-15, USFS Road 042 and USFS Road 051. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Check each of them on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a line on a boundary description is not a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

What a day here costs you

1,220 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 4,971 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

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

Muzzleloader20%

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Wasatch Mtns, West 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)	477	485	98.4%	—
Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	9	9	100.0%	—
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	1020	1,124	90.7%	1
Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	65	65	100.0%	1
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident)	2593	3,063	84.7%	1
Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident)	85	89	95.5%	1

Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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UDWR's 2025 draw recap for mule deer in unit Wasatch Mtns, West, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 3,063 applicants for 2,593 licences, 84.7% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 1,124 applicants for 1,020 licences, 90.7% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 89 applicants for 85 licences, 95.5% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 69 applicants for 29 licences, 42% drawn, 9 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.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

18 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Redman Campground, Whiting and Balsam (Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, UT).

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Road Conditions

Roughly 0 mi paved, 0 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

4,547–9,518 ft, averaging 7,001. More than 4,000 feet of relief, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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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 76/41°F, 1.4 in.; Oct 63/32°F, 2 in.; Nov 48/24°F, 1.8 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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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit Wasatch Mtns, West?

Unit Wasatch Mtns, West lies in Salt Lake, Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties. UDWR draws unit Wasatch Mtns, West with a boundary that runs on I-80, I-15, USFS Road 042 and USFS Road 051, and on Salt Lake, Strawberry Bay and Indian Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It covers about 1,220 square miles.

What is the bighorn sheep success rate in unit Wasatch Mtns, West?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success in unit Wasatch Mtns, West at rifle 72% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Can you hunt unit Wasatch Mtns, West on public land?

What is the mule deer success rate in unit Wasatch Mtns, West?

UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit Wasatch Mtns, West at 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

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Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

Where to Find Bighorn Sheep in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

The lines of the unit: Salt Lake, Strawberry Bay and Indian Creek

High ground inside the line: Mount Timpanogos, Twin Peaks and White Baldy

Holding ground: Cascade Cirque, Gad Valley and Big Provo Cirque

Water: Beaver Ponds Springs, Number 10 Spring and Montreal Spring

Before you apply: who owns this unit

Unit Wasatch Mtns, West terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Bighorn Sheep in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

Bighorn Sheep Success Rates

Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

The lines of the unit: Salt Lake, Strawberry Bay and Indian Creek

High ground inside the line: O'Sullivan Peak, Lone Peak and Superior Peak

Holding ground: Mineral Basin, Albion Basin and Third Hole

Water: Clyde Spring, Boardman Spring and Mill Canyon Spring

Before you apply: who owns this unit

Unit Wasatch Mtns, West terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit Wasatch Mtns, West

Mule Deer Success Rates

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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