Idaho Deer — Unit 60-1

Idaho Unit 60-1 covers 1,497,271 acres and lies 21 miles north of St. Anthony and 31 miles north of Rexburg. 72% of it is public land, mostly national forest (40%) and BLM (17%). In 2025, 521 people hunted deer here and took 368 — 71% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 300 tags here for 6 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):590 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:216 Hunter success (2025):71% Public land:72% Size:1,497,271 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Unit 60-1, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

No points in this draw — every nonresident applicant has the same chance.

3 licenses on offer · 590 tags · 216 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 1049 Antlered deer (mule or white-tailed), any weapon, Hunt Area 60-1 40 tags · 203 applicants
    <1% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • 1063 Antlerless deer (mule or white-tailed), any weapon, Hunt Area 60-1 300 tags · 6 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • 1109 Antlerless or Antlered deer (mule or white-tailed), any weapon, Hunt Area 60-1 (youth only) 250 tags · 7 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed 8% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
Idaho lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $203 $203 $554.75

Application window: opens May 1, closes Jun 5, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

St. Anthony Shelley Soda Springs Salmon Jerome
Unit 60-1 within Idaho
29-1 30 30A 51-1 58-1 60-1X 60-2 60A-1X 61 62 63A 63A-1X 63AX 67 St. Anthony Rigby Iona Victor Shelley
Unit 60-1 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • National Forest 597,584 ac · 40%
  • Private 415,058 ac · 28%
  • BLM 260,872 ac · 17%
  • State land 184,846 ac · 12%
  • Other public 33,837 ac · 2%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 4,409 ac · 0%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 67 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 0 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Idaho Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)

How the hunting has gone

What Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. Idaho's figures are counts from mandatory hunter reports and check stations rather than survey estimates, so they behave differently from the survey states.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 521 368 71%
2024 40 37 93%
2023 40 37 93%
2022 138 121 88%
2021 132 97 73%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Firearm 368 · 100% · 521 hunters, 71% success

What the agency says about the area

All of Units 60, 61, 62A and that portion of Unit 60A beyond one mile north and west of the North (Henrys) Fork of the Snake River.

Source: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer 2025 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Boundary: Controlled Hunts - All Species, BigGame='Deer' AND Year=2025 (hunt-area boundaries)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer 2025 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer 2024 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer 2023 (general + controlled hunt tables)

How we compute draw odds · All Idaho deer hunts