Units / Montana / Goat district 517
Mountain goat hunt area — its own geography, not the district with the same number. Public land, access, and mountain goat harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public land
81%
192,149 ac of 236,031 ac
Landlocked public
104 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
74%
of public · 141,512 ac
Walk-in access
776 ac
private land opened to hunting
Mountain goat · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters
100% success
4 taken by 4 hunters · 31 days afield
3 bucks · 1 does · 0 fawns
Res 100% success
Mountain goat hunter success · 2005–2025 · 88% → 100%
Plan it
Montana mountain goat draw odds — 1 hunt here →
4 tags drawn on this goat district last season.
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the district’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
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 →
Nearby mountain goat goat districts
Boundaries from the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks mountain goat hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.