Unit Yellowstone
Utah Hunting Guide — Black Bear
Unit Yellowstone lies in Duchesne, Summit, Uintah 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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Black Bear Hunting in Unit Yellowstone
Unit Yellowstone lies in Duchesne, Summit, Uintah 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 Yellowstone
UDWR's material on unit Yellowstone 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 Duchesne, Summit, Uintah and Wasatch counties.
The lines of the unit: Provo River, Uinta Mountains and Hayden Pass
UDWR draws unit Yellowstone in Duchesne, Summit, Uintah and Wasatch counties with a boundary that runs on USFS Trail #025, and on Provo River, Uinta Mountains, Hayden Pass and Dry Fork, 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: South Kings Peak, Kings Peak and Mount Emmons
Named high points inside the unit include South Kings Peak at 13,512 feet, Kings Peak at 13,490 feet, Mount Emmons at 13,435 feet, Mount Lovenia at 13,212 feet and Wilson Peak at 13,065 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: Nahguch Pass, Trail Rider Pass and Bluebell Pass
Below them sit Nahguch Pass at 11,754 feet, Trail Rider Pass at 11,719 feet, Bluebell Pass at 11,620 feet, Gilbert Creek Basin at 11,450 feet and Tungsten Pass at 11,416 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.
Water: Big Spring, Limekiln Spring and Woodard Spring
Named sources include Big Spring, Limekiln Spring, Woodard Spring, Buffalo Spring, Rock Spring and Elk 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.
Unit Yellowstone terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: South Kings Peak (13,512 ft), Mount Emmons (13,435 ft), Mount Lovenia (13,212 ft), Wilson Peak (13,065 ft)
Holding ground: Anderson Pass (12,710 ft), Porcupine Pass (12,226 ft), North Pole Pass (12,163 ft), Big Spring, Limekiln 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 Yellowstone
Black Bear Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit Yellowstone 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.
Black Bear Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident) | 2 | 34 | 5.9% | 11 |
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 Yellowstone, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 89 applicants for 5 licences, 5.6% drawn, 14 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.
- 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