Utah Elk — South Slope, Diamond Mtn
Utah South Slope, Diamond Mtn covers 266,317 acres and lies 114 miles east of Heber. 68% of it is public land, mostly BLM (55%) and state land (6%). In 2023, 128 people hunted elk here and took 96 — 75% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered an elk license in South Slope, Diamond Mtn 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 145,168 ac · 55%
- Private 85,513 ac · 32%
- State land 16,049 ac · 6%
- State trust land 12,882 ac · 5%
- National Forest 6,241 ac · 2%
- National Wildlife Refuge 391 ac · 0%
- National Park Service 1 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 | 128 | 96 | 75% |
| 2022 | 101 | 88 | 87% |
| 2021 | 96 | 73 | 76% |
What people carried (2023 harvest)
- Archery 10 · 11% · 24 hunters, 42% success
- Firearm 64 · 70% · 74 hunters, 86% success
- Muzzleloader 18 · 20% · 21 hunters, 86% success
Boundary: Utah Wildlife Management Units — Elk (DWR biologist WMU/herd-unit layer)