Utah Deer · Plateau, Thousand Lakes
Utah Plateau, Thousand Lakes covers 324,756 acres and lies 34 miles west of Hanksville and 46 miles south-east of Richfield. 95% of it is public land, mostly national forest (32%) and national park (32%). In 2023, 195 people hunted deer here and took 50, a 26% success rate (sum of published hunt rows).
0 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2023, all licenses
32% Forest Service
324,756 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Licenses
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered a deer license in Plateau, Thousand Lakes 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.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 (summed) | 195 | 50 | 26% |
| 2022 (summed) | 80 | 41 | 51% |
| 2021 (summed) | 214 | 54 | 25% |
| 2023 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| General season · archery | 47 | 6 | 12% |
| General season · muzzleloader | 53 | 15 | 28% |
| General season · firearm | 61 | 16 | 27% |
| General season youth** | 10 | 7 | 67% |
| Dedicated hunter | 20 | 5 | 27% |
| Limited entry on general season | 4 | 1 | 25% |
2023 split: archery 6 (13%) from 47 hunters, 13%, muzzleloader 16 (36%) from 57 hunters, 28%, firearm 23 (51%) from 71 hunters, 32%
What Utah Division of Wildlife Resources publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources publishes no whole-unit line for 2023; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: Utah DWR 2023 Big Game Harvest; Utah DWR 2022 Big Game Harvest; Utah DWR 2021 Big Game Harvest.
The Ground
| National Forest | 104,707 ac | 32% |
| National Park Service | 104,460 ac | 32% |
| BLM | 88,987 ac | 27% |
| Private | 15,581 ac | 5% |
| State trust land | 10,971 ac | 3% |
| State land | 19 ac | <1% |
Source: Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre.
▸ Sources 5
- Utah DWR 2023 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Utah DWR 2022 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Utah DWR 2021 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Utah DWR 2026 Wildlife Management Units boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward.
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