Utah Antelope (Pronghorn) · Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek

Utah Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek spans 1,406,903 acres, centered 33 miles south-west of Bonanza. 59% of it is public land, mostly BLM (44%) and state trust land (14%). A further 37% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2025, 70 people hunted pronghorn here and took 60, a 86% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, PB5026, put up 6 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 184 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 16 points.

NR Tags, 2026
7

2 licenses

Applicants
196

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
86%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
59%

44% BLM

Size
2,198 mi²

1,406,903 acres

86%hunter success 2025 · 70 hunters, 60 pronghorn

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

Every License in Book Cliffs, Bitter Creek

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
PB5001 3% (small sample) —
PB5026 <1% (small sample) 16 ▲4

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $736 ($165 to apply). Open Mar 18 – Apr 22, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Pronghorn Success
2025 (summed) 70 60 86%
2024 (summed) 62 56 90%
2023 (summed) 59 52 88%
2022 (summed) 47 42 89%
2021 (summed) 36 36 100%
2025 by LicenseHuntersPronghornSuccess
Limited entry · archery 14 12 86%
Limited entry · firearm 56 48 86%

2025 split: archery 12 (20%) from 14 hunters, 86%, firearm 48 (80%) from 56 hunters, 86%

What Utah Division of Wildlife Resources publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Harvest; Utah DWR 2024 Big Game Harvest; Utah DWR 2023 Big Game Harvest.

The Ground

BLM 612,331 ac 44%
Tribal 518,800 ac 37%
State trust land 193,460 ac 14%
Private 63,885 ac 5%
State land 18,063 ac 1%

Source: Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre.

▸ Sources 9
  1. Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. Utah DWR 2026 Big Game Application Guidebook fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. Utah DWR 2024 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. Utah DWR 2023 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. Utah DWR 2022 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. Utah DWR 2021 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. Utah DWR 2026 Wildlife Management Units boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Utah Division of Wildlife Resources' published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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Prior-draw odds from Utah Division of Wildlife Resources' results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Utah pronghorn hunts