Unit research · Idaho Unit 37A

Unit 37A — Idaho

94% public across 223,451 ac. Real backcountry here — 39% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Bighorn sheep draw odds (1)Elk draw odds (2)Moose draw odds (1)Mountain goat draw odds (1)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 37AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

4,390–11,230 ft

elevation range

94%

public land

39%

of public >1 mi from a road

1 ac

landlocked public

0.76

road miles per mi²

93 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

5 limited-entry bighorn sheep, elk, moose and mountain goat hunts are drawn on Unit 37A: apply in the Idaho draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Bighorn sheep tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$216.50 resident · $2,672.50 nonresident

Elk tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$43.00 resident · $669.75 nonresident

Moose tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$216.50 resident · $2,672.50 nonresident

Mountain goat tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$216.50 resident · $2,672.50 nonresident

Plus: Idaho hunting licence$15.75 resident · $185.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Idaho Department of Fish and Game's regulations

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗

Idaho bighorn sheep, elk, moose and mountain goat draw calendar

Apr 1, 2027 — applications open
Apr 1, 2027 — applications open
Apr 1, 2027 — applications open

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗Draw odds for Idaho bighorn sheep →Draw odds for Idaho elk →Draw odds for Idaho moose →Draw odds for Idaho mountain goat →How the Idaho draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Idaho Department of Fish and Game, 2026, verified 2026-08-13. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a unit that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents · IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, nonresidents · IDFG — Controlled hunt application information.

Land & access

■ USFS 64%■ BLM 26%■ SDOL 3%□ Private 6%

Unit area223,451 ac

Public land210,051 ac (94%)

Landlocked public1 ac (0.0%)

Bighorn sheep draw pressure0.006 tags/mi² public (0.006 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.44 tags/mi² public (0.42 of total area)

Mountain goat draw pressure0.003 tags/mi² public (0.003 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)264 mi

Maintained trails93 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road82,504 ac (39% of public)

Road density0.76 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 144k ac · BLM 59k ac · SDOL 7k ac

Elevation4,390–11,230 ft

Median elevation7,630 ft

Median slope22°

Where the ground sits

4,390 ft11,230 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 18%

E 14%

S 29%

W 39%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

Unit intelligence report

14,758 ac of this unit has burned — 7% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at STANLEY RANGER STATION, 104 km from the unit’s center and ~1,100 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · by unit

24% success

58 taken by 239 hunters · 1,129 days afield

58 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 29% → 24%

IDFG harvest by Game Management Unit, one row per unit per season per take method. Success rates and hunter days are published by IDFG and carried verbatim wherever a row comes straight from the department; nothing here is derived except where several hunts share one area, and there the rate is recomputed from the summed hunters and harvest because a per-hunt percentage does not survive being added up. Where a cell is blank IDFG suppressed a small sample, and it stays blank rather than being back-computed. Take method ("Any Weapon", "Archery", "Muzzleloader") is the variant for general seasons and the rows are NOT summable — each is its own season, not a component of a total. IDFG's own "All Weapons Combined" row is carried as the `all` variant, so the total is the department's arithmetic rather than ours. Idaho's draw-only animals have no general season at all. Moose, mountain goat and both bighorn herds appear under a `controlled` variant covering the limited-entry hunts, and the two sheep herds stay separate — a Rocky Mountain and a California bighorn are different animals in different mountains, with their own once-in-a-lifetime rules. Source: IDFG Hunt Planner — general hunt harvest statistics by unit (deer) · IDFG Hunt Planner map service — HarvestStats_mainTbl (all other species).

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

Nearby units

Unit 2980% public · 16% remote Unit 3790% public · 21% remote Unit 3079% public · 9% remote Unit 2897% public · 24% remote Unit 36A97% public · 38% remote Unit 5192% public · 30% remote

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What happens nextApr 1 — Bighorn sheep applications open · details →Apr 1 — Moose applications open · details →Apr 1 — Mountain goat applications open · details →