Utah Elk — Plateau, Boulder
Utah Plateau, Boulder covers 1,184,307 acres and lies 87 miles east of Cedar City. 94% of it is public land, mostly national forest (48%) and BLM (28%). In 2023, 120 people hunted elk here and took 80 — 67% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered an elk license in Plateau, Boulder 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 563,996 ac · 48%
- BLM 329,062 ac · 28%
- State trust land 133,159 ac · 11%
- National Park Service 87,676 ac · 7%
- Private 67,517 ac · 6%
- State land 2,630 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 | 120 | 80 | 67% |
| 2022 | 85 | 68 | 80% |
| 2021 | 84 | 77 | 92% |
What people carried (2023 harvest)
- Archery 13 · 17% · 29 hunters, 45% success
- Firearm 47 · 63% · 65 hunters, 72% success
- Muzzleloader 15 · 20% · 17 hunters, 88% success
Boundary: Utah Big Game Hunt Boundaries 2025 (DWR hunt-unit / sub-unit boundaries, all species)