Utah Elk — Central Mtns, Manti
Utah Central Mtns, Manti covers 1,640,519 acres and lies 48 miles south-east of Santaquin. 74% of it is public land, mostly national forest (53%) and BLM (10%). In 2023, 664 people hunted elk here and took 366 — 55% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered an elk license in Central Mtns, Manti in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Utah elk 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
- National Forest 865,609 ac · 53%
- Private 432,910 ac · 26%
- BLM 156,169 ac · 10%
- State trust land 109,843 ac · 7%
- State land 75,280 ac · 5%
- Department of Defense 78 ac · 0%
Nearby areas
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 | 664 | 366 | 55% |
| 2022 | 576 | 385 | 67% |
| 2021 | 537 | 369 | 69% |
What people carried (2023 harvest)
- Archery 58 · 17% · 163 hunters, 36% success
- Firearm 226 · 65% · 373 hunters, 61% success
- Muzzleloader 62 · 18% · 99 hunters, 63% success
Boundary: Utah Wildlife Management Units — Elk (DWR biologist WMU/herd-unit layer)