Utah Deer · Wasatch Mtns, East

Utah Wasatch Mtns, East spans 1,044,582 acres, centered 34 miles south-east of Heber. 53% of it is public land, mostly national forest (38%) and state land (10%). In 2025, 5,351 people hunted deer here and took 1,921, a 36% success rate (sum of published hunt rows).

NR Tags, 2026
3

5 licenses

Applicants
405

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
36%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
53%

38% Forest Service

Size
1,632 mi²

1,044,582 acres

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Every License in Wasatch Mtns, East

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DB1041 Standard 2% (small sample) 14
DB1525 Standard 100% 0
DB1555 Standard 100% 0
Youth 100% 0
DB1585 Standard 100% 0

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData; Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $764 ($165 to apply) · Youth $764 ($165 to apply). Open Mar 18 – Apr 22, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 (summed) 5,351 1,921 36%
2024 (summed) 4,442 1,288 29%
2023 (summed) 3,749 1,095 29%
2022 (summed) 2,430 1,331 55%
2021 (summed) 2,446 1,066 44%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Limited entry on general season 30 19 63%
General season · archery 789 160 20%
General season · firearm 2,995 1,281 43%
General season · muzzleloader 789 217 28%
General season 748 244 33%

2025 split: muzzleloader 236 (14%) from 819 hunters, 29%, archery 160 (10%) from 789 hunters, 20%, firearm 1,281 (76%) from 2,995 hunters, 43%

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

Private 411,826 ac 39%
National Forest 400,164 ac 38%
State land 105,678 ac 10%
Tribal 77,306 ac 7%
State trust land 31,973 ac 3%
BLM 17,455 ac 2%

Source: Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre.

▸ Sources 10
  1. Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. Utah DWR 2026 Big Game Application Guidebook fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. Utah DWR 2024 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. Utah DWR 2023 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. Utah DWR 2022 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. Utah DWR 2021 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Hunt Boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. 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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