Utah Antelope (Pronghorn) — South Slope, Vernal
Utah South Slope, Vernal covers 801,589 acres and lies 93 miles east of Heber. 71% of it is public land, mostly national forest (36%) and BLM (24%). In 2023, 90 people hunted pronghorn here and took 79 — 88% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered a pronghorn license in South Slope, Vernal in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Utah pronghorn 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 285,851 ac · 36%
- BLM 190,293 ac · 24%
- Private 182,793 ac · 23%
- State trust land 55,414 ac · 7%
- Tribal 46,307 ac · 6%
- National Park Service 30,942 ac · 4%
- National Wildlife Refuge 5,203 ac · 1%
- State land 4,382 ac · 1%
- Bureau of Reclamation 76 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 | 90 | 79 | 88% |
| 2022 | 71 | 66 | 93% |
| 2021 | 57 | 54 | 95% |
What people carried (2023 harvest)
- Archery 13 · 16% · 16 hunters, 81% success
- Firearm 49 · 62% · 56 hunters, 88% success
- Muzzleloader 17 · 22% · 18 hunters, 94% success
Boundary: Utah Wildlife Management Units — Pronghorn (DWR biologist WMU/herd-unit layer)