Utah Deer — South Slope, Diamond Mtn
Utah South Slope, Diamond Mtn covers 266,317 acres and lies 114 miles east of Heber. 68% of it is public land, mostly BLM (55%) and state land (6%). In 2023, 163 people hunted deer here and took 148 — 91% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered a deer license in South Slope, Diamond Mtn 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 145,168 ac · 55%
- Private 85,513 ac · 32%
- State land 16,049 ac · 6%
- State trust land 12,882 ac · 5%
- National Forest 6,241 ac · 2%
- National Wildlife Refuge 391 ac · 0%
- National Park Service 1 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 | 163 | 148 | 91% |
| 2022 | 158 | 146 | 92% |
| 2021 | 149 | 141 | 95% |
What people carried (2023 harvest)
- Archery 25 · 17% · 31 hunters, 81% success
- Firearm 94 · 65% · 101 hunters, 93% success
- Muzzleloader 25 · 17% · 27 hunters, 93% success
Boundary: Utah Wildlife Management Units — Mule Deer (DWR biologist WMU/herd-unit layer)