Unit West Desert, Snake Valley
Utah Hunting Guide — Pronghorn
Unit West Desert, Snake Valley lies in Juab, Millard and Tooele counties and covers about 5,547 square miles. Ground runs from 4,229 to 7,925 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit pronghorn 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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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit West Desert, Snake Valley
Unit West Desert, Snake Valley lies in Juab, Millard and Tooele counties and covers about 5,547 square miles. Ground runs from 4,229 to 7,925 feet. UDWR publishes no per-unit pronghorn 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 Pronghorn in Unit West Desert, Snake Valley
What UDWR publishes for unit West Desert, Snake Valley is a boundary, not a pronghorn map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Juab, Millard and Tooele counties. It runs to about 5,547 square miles.
What bounds unit West Desert, Snake Valley
UDWR draws unit West Desert, Snake Valley in Juab, Millard and Tooele counties with a boundary that runs on I-80, and on Dugway Mountains, 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: Deep Creek Range, Ibapah Peak and Haystack Peak
Named high points inside the unit include Deep Creek Range at 12,026 feet, Ibapah Peak at 12,026 feet, Haystack Peak at 11,996 feet, Red Mountain at 11,529 feet and Rocky Peak at 10,725 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem.
Holding ground: North Pass, Queen of Sheba Canyon and North Canyon
Below them sit North Pass at 7,616 feet, Queen of Sheba Canyon at 7,599 feet, North Canyon at 7,583 feet, Dry Fork Johnson Canyon at 7,546 feet and Dry Fork Johnson Canyon at 7,513 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.
Water: Willow Spring, Cane Spring and Chicken Springs
Named sources include Willow Spring, Cane Spring, Chicken Springs, Wild Goose Spring, Skinner Spring and Rock 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. 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 4,229 feet to 7,925 feet, averaging 4,934 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit West Desert, Snake Valley terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Deep Creek Range (12,026 ft), Haystack Peak (11,996 ft), Red Mountain (11,529 ft), Rocky Peak (10,725 ft)
Holding ground: The Meadows (9,261 ft), Open A (7,954 ft), Amasa Valley (7,719 ft), Willow Spring, Cane 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 Pronghorn in Unit West Desert, Snake Valley
Pronghorn Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no pronghorn row for unit West Desert, Snake Valley 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.
Pronghorn Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 22 | 27 | 81.5% | 10 |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 2 | 13 | 15.4% | 10 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 73 | 251 | 29.1% | 16 |
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 8 | 195 | 4.1% | 16 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 86 | 293 | 29.4% | 24 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 10 | 233 | 4.3% | 24 |
Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's draw recap has no pronghorn record we can tie to unit West Desert, Snake Valley. That usually means the licence is sold over the counter, is issued under a hunt code covering several units, or was not offered in the years we hold. Rather than estimate a point requirement, we leave it blank — check UDWR's own draw recap for the hunt code you mean to apply for.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
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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