Montana Deer — Hunting District 170

Montana Hunting District 170 covers 231,785 acres and lies 6 miles east of Kalispell and 17 miles south-east of Whitefish. 10% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (5%) and state land (2%). In 2025, 2,713 people hunted deer here and took 1,772 — 65% of them killed something.

All deer success (2025):65% Public land:10% Size:231,785 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered a deer license in Hunting District 170 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Montana deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Hunting District 170 within Montana

Hunting District 170 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

Private 205,130 ac · 88%
State trust land 12,446 ac · 5%
State land 4,519 ac · 2%
County or city land 4,427 ac · 2%
National Wildlife Refuge 1,298 ac · 1%
National Forest 811 ac · 0%
Other public 23 ac · 0%
BLM 0 ac · 0%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
Tribal 0 ac · 0%
Private or other non-public land 3,129 ac · 1%

Source: Deer Elk Lion 2026-2027 Hunting District Landcover and Land Ownership Calculations

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Montana's figures blend mandatory reporting with a phone and mail survey. FWP does not publish district-level hunter counts for elk or antelope, so success rates are missing for those.