Canyon County for Idaho Hunters

Canyon County by hunting unit

Percentages come from overlaying the IDFG unit polygons on county lines.

1 IDFG hunting unit reach into Canyon County, and Unit 38 covers the largest piece, 100% of the county. The neighbour with the most shared units is Ada County: 1 of them.

The general black bear tables leave out Unit 38; read the brochure before planning a bear hunt there.

Unit shares from the IDFG Game Units layer overlaid on Census county polygons (GIS shares of land area, both ways); elk zone of each unit from the IDFG Elk Zones layer; wolf zones from the IDFG Wolf Zones layer; CWD units from the 2026 brochure; bear tables from the 2026 brochure. Checked November 12, 2026.

Canyon County CWD rules and wolf zones

CWD rules for 2026 do not reach Canyon County: the zone is Units 14, 18 and part of Unit 1, and testing adds Units 23, 63A, 64 and 69.

Canyon County wolf zones, units and dates

IDFG maps Canyon County into 1 wolf zone, Southern Idaho, and sets wolf dates separately for public and private land. Wolf trapping takes a trapping license plus wolf trapper education; from July 1, 2026 trap checks may use transmitting cameras.

CWD zone, transport and testing rules from the Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules p. 9; 2026 changes from IDFG, What hunters need to know about CWD requirements for 2026; county units from the IDFG CWD zone rules; wolf rules from the 2026 brochure; wolf zones from the IDFG Wolf Zones layer. Checked November 12, 2026.

Hunt numbers crossing into Canyon County

Rows come from the 2026 draw.

The 2026 draw lists 7 hunt numbers whose units cross into the county (6 deer and 1 pronghorn). Together they carry 75 tags for 2026, but the counts are whole-hunt figures and many hunt areas are smaller than their units or spill into other counties.

The first application period for deer, elk, pronghorn and fall bear runs May 1 to June 5 and results post in early July; the draw is random.

Canyon County deer hunt numbers (6)

Pronghorn hunts with units in Canyon County (1)

Hunt numbers, types, units, dates, bags and 2026 tags from the IDFG Hunt Planner hunt pages (each hunt number links its page) matched to the Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules and the Moose, Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Goat 2025 and 2026 brochure; counties are whole units, so a hunt area can be smaller. Application periods from the 2026 brochure, the moose, sheep and goat brochure and the spring bear page. Checked November 12, 2026.

Canyon County forests, BLM and WMAs

Solid points on the map are places in the county; hollow ones lie just outside it.

Of every hundred acres in Canyon County, about 3 are public hunting ground, 11,544 acres on the merged layers. No owner outweighs BLM land here: 8,978 acres. Call the Four Rivers Field Office about BLM roads and closures here; its share is roughly 8,978 of 8,978 BLM acres.

Idaho Department of Lands endowment land adds about 592 acres, kept out of the public total because recreation there is a secondary use.

Canyon County places, card by card

Canyon County neighbours with open land

• Letha – Payette River Access (Access Yes!)19 miles, Access Yes! property
• Payette River Wildlife Management Area26 miles, IDFG WMA
• Montour Wildlife Management Area28 miles, IDFG WMA
• Boise River Wildlife Management Area33 miles, IDFG WMA
• Highland Land and Livestock Boise River WMA (Access Yes!)34 miles, Access Yes! property
• Willow-Oxarango (Access Yes!)35 miles, Access Yes! property

Acres are GIS measures of polygons with water over 2 square km removed, not official acreage: IDFG WMA layer, PAD-US 4.1 (forest, grassland, BLM, refuge, park, endowment, Reclamation, military, DOE and tribal land), IDFG Access Yes! 2026 layer, IDFG Large Tracts layer; refuges counted only when listed in 50 CFR 32.31; tribal rule from 18 U.S.C. 1165; closures from the 2026 brochure; Craters of the Moon from the NPS laws and policies page. Checked November 12, 2026.

Canyon County hunting calendar

On November 11, 2026 the county showed 8 dates ahead, covering DU conservation dinner, DU sportsman’s bingo, RMEF chapter banquet, hunter and bowhunter, pre-study, hunter certification and wolf trapper certification. Full when read: 1.

A chapter night near here we left out? Add it

Canyon County and its nearest counties

Shortest gazetteer distance decides these four county cards; the buttons lead to statewide references.