Sheep unit 18 · Washington

Bighorn sheep hunt area — its own geography, not the GMU with the same number. Public land, access, and bighorn sheep harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Sheep unit 18Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

41%

24,576 ac of 60,270 ac

Landlocked public

2,954 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

of public · 30 ac

Bighorn sheep · 2025 · general season

100% success

8 taken by 8 hunters · 15 days afield

Bighorn sheep hunter success · 2017–2025 · 100% → 100%

Plan it

See it on the map →

Washington bighorn sheep draw odds →

OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →

Terrain — this boundary, not the GMU’s

Elevation710–3,780 ft

Median elevation2,040 ft

Median slope16°

Where the ground sits

710 ft3,780 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 19%

E 29%

S 28%

W 23%

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 bighorn sheep sheep units

Sheep unit 14 · 66% public Sheep unit 13 · 70% public Sheep unit 20 · 3% public Sheep unit 4 · 35% public

Boundaries from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife bighorn sheep hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.