Utah Elk — Plateau, Barney Top/kaiparowits
Utah Plateau, Barney Top/kaiparowits covers 2,170,628 acres and lies 93 miles east of Cedar City. 98% of it is public land, mostly BLM (63%) and national park (28%). In 2023, 19 people hunted elk here and took 9 — 47% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered an elk license in Plateau, Barney Top/kaiparowits 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 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 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 19 | 9 | 47% |
| 2022 | 16 | 9 | 56% |
| 2021 | 13 | 5 | 38% |
Boundary: Utah Big Game Hunt Boundaries 2025 (DWR hunt-unit / sub-unit boundaries, all species)