Utah Deer · San Juan, Elk Ridge
Utah San Juan, Elk Ridge spans 1,973,470 acres, centered 63 miles south-east of Hanksville. 99% of it is public land, mostly BLM (60%) and national park (21%). In 2025, 81 people hunted deer here and took 73, a 90% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, DB1022, put up 4 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 441 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 25 points.
3 licenses
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
60% BLM
1,973,470 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in San Juan, Elk Ridge
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DB1014 | Limited-entry Buck Deer - San Juan, Elk Ridge | <1% (small sample) | 25 ▲3 | |
| DB1022 | Limited-entry Buck Deer - San Juan, Elk Ridge | <1% (small sample) | 25 ▲3 | |
| DB1037 | Limited-entry Buck Deer - San Juan, Elk Ridge | <1% (small sample) | 24 ▼3 |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: DB1046.
Draw results: Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $764 ($165 to apply). Open Mar 18 – Apr 22, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 81 | 73 | 90% |
| 2024 (summed) | 76 | 57 | 75% |
| 2023 (summed) | 73 | 60 | 82% |
| 2022 (summed) | 72 | 57 | 79% |
| 2021 (summed) | 62 | 58 | 94% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limited entry · archery | 17 | 17 | 100% |
| Limited entry · firearm | 45 | 40 | 89% |
| Limited entry · muzzleloader | 16 | 14 | 88% |
| Limited entry | 3 | 2 | 67% |
2025 split: archery 17 (24%) from 17 hunters, 100%, firearm 40 (56%) from 45 hunters, 89%, muzzleloader 14 (20%) from 16 hunters, 88%
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 2025; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Harvest; Utah DWR 2024 Big Game Harvest; Utah DWR 2023 Big Game Harvest.
The Ground
| BLM | 1,191,077 ac | 60% |
| National Park Service | 417,880 ac | 21% |
| National Forest | 234,436 ac | 12% |
| State trust land | 114,496 ac | 6% |
| Private | 11,382 ac | <1% |
| State land | 3,230 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 369 ac | <1% |
Source: Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre.
▸ Sources 9
- Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Utah DWR 2026 Big Game Application Guidebook fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Utah DWR 2024 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- 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 2025 Big Game Hunt Boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Utah Division of Wildlife Resources' published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. 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. How we compute these.
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