Utah Elk EB3179 — Unit Nebo/San Pitch Mtns

Limited-entry Bull Elk - Nebo/San Pitch Mtns

What you may take
Limited-entry Bull Elk - Nebo/San Pitch Mtns (antlered)
Weapon
Muzzleloader
Where
Nebo/San Pitch Mtns
50% public of 617,894 acres
Season (2026)
Sep 21 – Oct 2, 2026
Nonresident tags (2026)
2
for 23 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2025)
62%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 1 tags, 23 first-choice applicants, drew out at 21 points. Source: Utah Draw System DrawOddsData · HuntID=1671.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 <1% (<1%–<1%) 2 0
1 1% (1%–2%) 1 0
2 2% (1%–2%) 2 0
3 2% (2%–3%) 1 0
4 3% (2%–3%) 1 0
5 3%
6 4% (4%–4%) 3 0
7 4% (4%–5%) 1 0
8 5% (4%–5%) 3 1
9 6% (5%–6%) 3 0
10 7% (6%–7%) 1 0
11 7% 0 0
12 7% (6%–8%) 1 0
13 8% 0 0
14 8% (7%–9%) 1 0
15 9%
16 8% 0 0
17 9% (8%–10%) 1 0
18 9%
19 11% (10%–12%) 1 0
20 12% 0 0
21 100% (100%–100%) 1 1
22–24 100% same chance at every one of these levels

Monte Carlo over published bonus-point pools. A dash means Utah Division of Wildlife Resources did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$165
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$165
Total if drawn
$2,115
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $2,115 (enough points to draw) to $34,145.12 (lowest published odds).

Nonresident big game application fee, per species or point applied for (plus 2.2% card processing fee) · paid at application $21 source
Nonresident 365-day hunting license, age 18+ (required to apply; a drawn nonresident big game permit also acts as a 1-year fishing license) · paid at application $144 or $190 source
Bonus or preference point only (same as the application fee; no permit fee) · only for a point bought without applying — an unsuccessful applicant gets the point free $21 source
Nonresident limited-entry bull elk permit (charged only if drawn) · paid if drawn $1,950 or $2,655 source

Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $21 (Mar 19 – Jun 23, expected) and keeps you moving toward the 21-point cut.

Next application window: opens Mar 19, closes Apr 23, 2027 (expected) · results ~May 31. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (1 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Sep 21 – Oct 2, 2026 p. HuntID=1671

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Nebo/San Pitch Mtns, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources counted 103 hunters and 64 elk taken in 2025 — 62% of them killed something. Full Nebo/San Pitch Mtns profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Type Limited Entry 25 6 24%
Type Limited Entry 8 5 63%
Type Limited Entry 9 6 67%
Type Limited Entry 18 13 72%
Type Limited Entry 27 22 82%
Type Limited Entry 4 3 75%
Type Limited Entry 12 9 75%

Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2025 Utah Big Game Harvest (preliminary) — single combined report, all species and hunt types 2024 Utah Big Game Harvest — General Season Buck Deer + Limited Entry/Once-in-a-Lifetime (all species)

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. Utah runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2026 2 23 11.5 21 1 tag Utah Draw System DrawOddsData · HuntID=1671

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Utah reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years EB3179 stood for another unit or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.

Year · what it was Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2025 · Unit Nebo/san Pitch Mtns 31 2025 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 357
2024 · Unit Nebo/san Pitch Mtns 35 2024 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 343
2023 · Unit Central Mtns, Nebo/san Pitch Mtns 43 2023 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 345

Other licenses valid in Nebo/San Pitch Mtns

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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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