Utah Elk — Skull Crack

Utah Skull Crack covers 27,712 acres and lies 19 miles east of Ogden. 1% of it is public land, mostly national forest (1%). In 2025, 7 people hunted elk here and took 7 — 100% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):100% Public land:1% Size:27,712 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in Skull Crack, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level

EB3552 CWMU Bull Elk - Skull Crack — · 0 applicants

— No draw held

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	Points needed	Tags / applicants	Season
EB3552 ↗ CWMU Bull Elk - Skull Crack	No draw held	—	— / 0	Sep 1 – Oct 31, 2026

What these columns mean

Your odds: the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge: plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Points needed: the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2025 nonresident fees)

License	Up front	Gone if you miss	If you draw
Per application	$136	$136	$1,186

Application window: opens Mar 19, closes Apr 23, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Skull Crack within Utah

Skull Crack and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

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

Who owns the ground

Private 27,539 ac · 99%
National Forest 167 ac · 1%
BLM 1 ac · 0%

Source: SGID Cadastre — Land Ownership (opensgid.cadastre.land_ownership), statewide surface-ownership parcels

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.