Utah Deer — Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits
Utah Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits covers 3,432,407 acres and lies 89 miles east of Cedar City. 97% of it is public land, mostly BLM (50%) and national park (21%). In 2023, 1,109 people hunted deer here and took 557 — 50% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered a deer license in Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Utah deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- BLM 1,711,004 ac · 50%
- National Park Service 725,622 ac · 21%
- National Forest 683,676 ac · 20%
- State trust land 193,592 ac · 6%
- Private 108,356 ac · 3%
- State land 9,330 ac · 0%
How the hunting has gone
What Utah Division of Wildlife Resources publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources 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.
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,109 | 557 | 50% |
| 2022 | 1,117 | 570 | 51% |
| 2021 | 767 | 358 | 47% |
What people carried (2023 harvest)
- Archery 72 · 14% · 207 hunters, 35% success
- Muzzleloader 99 · 20% · 195 hunters, 51% success
- Firearm 331 · 66% · 577 hunters, 57% success
Boundary: Utah Wildlife Management Units — Mule Deer (DWR biologist WMU/herd-unit layer)