Utah Elk — La Sal, La Sal Mtns
Utah La Sal, La Sal Mtns covers 1,585,846 acres and lies 150 miles south-east of Mapleton. 93% of it is public land, mostly BLM (59%) and national park (13%). In 2024, 162 people hunted elk here and took 88 — 54% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered an elk license in La Sal, La Sal Mtns 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
- BLM 940,506 ac · 59%
- National Park Service 208,530 ac · 13%
- State trust land 165,026 ac · 10%
- National Forest 140,575 ac · 9%
- Private 110,809 ac · 7%
- State land 17,637 ac · 1%
- Department of Defense 1,873 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 162 | 88 | 54% |
| 2023 | 153 | 82 | 54% |
| 2022 | 137 | 84 | 61% |
| 2021 | 134 | 80 | 60% |
What people carried (2024 harvest)
- Archery 11 · 13% · 38 hunters, 29% success
- Firearm 56 · 67% · 92 hunters, 61% success
- Muzzleloader 17 · 20% · 24 hunters, 71% success
Boundary: Utah Big Game Hunt Boundaries 2025 (DWR hunt-unit / sub-unit boundaries, all species)