Utah Elk · Barney Top/Kaiparowits

Utah Barney Top/Kaiparowits spans 2,170,628 acres, centered 74 miles south-west of Hanksville. 98% of it is public land, mostly BLM (63%) and national park (28%). In 2025, 18 people hunted elk here and took 7, a 39% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, EB3135, put up 1 nonresident tag in the 2026 draw for 52 first-choice applicants.

NR Tags, 2026
2

2 licenses

Applicants
79

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
39%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
98%

63% BLM

Size
3,392 mi²

2,170,628 acres

Cedar City Barney Top/Kaiparowits
39%hunter success 2025 · 18 hunters, 7 elk

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

Every License in Barney Top/Kaiparowits

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
EB3135 <1% (small sample) —
EB3142 <1% (small sample) —

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, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $2,115 ($165 to apply). Open Mar 18 – Apr 22, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Elk Success
2025 (summed) 18 7 39%
2024 (summed) 19 7 37%
2025 by LicenseHuntersElkSuccess
Limited entry (hunt 1 of 2) 9 2 22%
Limited entry (hunt 2 of 2) 9 5 56%

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.

The Ground

BLM 1,371,528 ac 63%
National Park Service 617,935 ac 28%
National Forest 119,701 ac 6%
Private 36,709 ac 2%
State trust land 17,491 ac <1%
State land 6,768 ac <1%

Source: Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre.

▸ Sources 6
  1. Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. Utah DWR 2026 Big Game Application Guidebook fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. Utah DWR 2024 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Hunt Boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. 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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We don't take applications: check Utah Division of Wildlife Resources's site and apply there.

Prior-draw odds from Utah Division of Wildlife Resources' results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Utah elk hunts