Utah Deer — Plateau, Thousand Lakes
Utah Plateau, Thousand Lakes covers 324,756 acres and lies 108 miles south of Santaquin. 95% of it is public land, mostly national forest (32%) and national park (32%). In 2023, 195 people hunted deer here and took 50 — 26% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
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.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns 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 · 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 | 195 | 50 | 26% |
| 2022 | 183 | 60 | 33% |
| 2021 | 214 | 54 | 25% |
What people carried (2023 harvest)
- Archery 6 · 13% · 47 hunters, 13% success
- Muzzleloader 16 · 36% · 57 hunters, 28% success
- Firearm 23 · 51% · 71 hunters, 32% success
Boundary: Utah Wildlife Management Units — Mule Deer (DWR biologist WMU/herd-unit layer)