Unit West Willow Creek Ranch
Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Elk
Unit West Willow Creek Ranch is a hunt unit. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 25%. 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 West Willow Creek Ranch
Unit West Willow Creek Ranch is a hunt unit. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 25%. 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 West Willow Creek Ranch
UDWR publishes no per-unit account of mule deer in unit West Willow Creek Ranch, so what follows is a read of the ground inside the unit line. It runs to about 41 square miles.
West Willow Creek Ranch is private land, not public ground
West Willow Creek Ranch is a Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit — private land enrolled with UDWR under rule R657-37, not public country you can walk onto. UDWR requires a CWMU to hold at least 10,000 contiguous acres to manage elk or moose, so the unit is one block of ground under one operator rather than a patchwork. This one covers about 41 square miles by UDWR's own polygon. Your permit is valid on this CWMU and nowhere else — UDWR states you may hunt only on the CWMU printed on the permit. So the question is not which drainage to start in. It is whether you can get a permit at all, and then what the operator lets you hunt.
High ground inside the line: Big Pack Mountain and Little Pack Mountain
Named high points inside the unit include Big Pack Mountain at 6,582 feet and Little Pack Mountain at 6,572 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.
Holding ground: Green Canyon
Below them sit Green Canyon at 5,772 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.
What is published about unit West Willow Creek Ranch, and what is not
The public datasets name only 3 terrain features inside this unit, and no agency access property at all. That is the finding. Ground this size held privately is farmed and grazed rather than mapped, and the hunt starts as a conversation with a landowner rather than a route. What the unit does have is 41 square miles of it, and the mule deer living on it are there whether or not anyone has mapped a name onto the ground.
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 West Willow Creek Ranch terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Little Pack Mountain (6,572 ft), Big Pack Mountain (6,582 ft)
Holding ground: Green Canyon (5,772 ft)
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 West Willow Creek Ranch
Mule Deer Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit West Willow Creek Ranch 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 4 | 94 | 4.3% | 5 |
| Any Legal Weapon — CWMU bull/buck only (resident) | 5 | 80 | 6.3% | 16 |
| Any Legal Weapon — CWMU bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 16 |
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 mule deer in unit West Willow Creek Ranch, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, CWMU, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 80 applicants for 5 licences, 6.3% drawn, 16 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.
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.
- Cooperative Wildlife Management Units — programme rules (administrative rule R657-37) — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: CWMUs are private land enrolled with UDWR under rule R657-37, Minimum 5,000 contiguous acres for deer, pronghorn or turkey; 10,000 for elk or moose, Residents may apply in the public drawing or take an operator voucher; nonresidents may only take a voucher, A CWMU permit is valid only on the CWMU printed on it, Public hunters must get opportunity and acreage comparable to private hunters, Harvest must be reported within 30 days of the hunt, whether or not an animal was taken · accessed 2026-10-24
- UDWR Hunt Boundaries — boundary descriptions from the Hunt Planner boundary layer — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: Mapped extent of the CWMU, UDWR's private-land and trust-land note, 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