Idaho Antelope (Pronghorn) — Unit 68

Idaho Unit 68 covers 1,163,239 acres and lies 24 miles north of American Falls and 33 miles north-west of Pocatello. 70% of it is public land, mostly BLM (55%) and national park (7%). In 2025, 94 people hunted pronghorn here and took 31 — 33% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 75 tags here for 6 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):120 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:102 Hunter success (2025):33% Public land:70% Size:1,163,239 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in Unit 68, 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 · 120 tags · 102 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
  • 4023 Antlerless or Antlered pronghorn, any weapon, Hunt Area 68 25 tags · 87 applicants
    1% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • 4041 Bucks Only pronghorn, archery, Hunt Area 68 20 tags · 9 applicants
    22% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • 4042 Bucks Only pronghorn, archery, Hunt Area 68 75 tags · 6 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed 35% 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 $545.75

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

The country

American Falls Shelley St. Anthony Mountain Home Salmon
Unit 68 within Idaho
36-1 36A-1 43-1X 44-1 44-2 44-3 45-1X 46-1X 47 49 49-1 50 51 51-2 52-1 52A-1 54 54-1X 55-1 63-1 63-1X 63-2 63-3 76-1 American Falls Blackfoot Shelley Rupert Rigby
Unit 68 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

  • BLM 634,785 ac · 55%
  • Private 346,809 ac · 30%
  • National Park Service 78,162 ac · 7%
  • Other public 74,199 ac · 6%
  • State land 24,826 ac · 2%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 4,087 ac · 0%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 369 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 94 31 33%
2024 92 42 46%
2023 87 22 25%
2022 78 20 26%
2021 89 24 27%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Firearm 19 · 61% · 25 hunters, 76% success
  • Archery 12 · 39% · 69 hunters, 17% success

What the agency says about the area

All of Unit 68. (Caution: Craters of the Moon National Park is CLOSED)

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

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

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

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

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

How we compute draw odds · All Idaho pronghorn hunts