Teton County Hunting Guide

Teton County by hunting unit

IDFG gives units numbers, not names, and the lines follow roads, rivers and ridges.

Seasons here follow unit lines rather than the county line: 4 units cross it, Unit 65 biggest at 50%. Unit 65 is 90% or more inside the county line.

Of the counties sharing units with Teton County, Madison County leads with 3.

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.

CWD and wolf rules for Teton County

Mandatory deer testing reaches Teton County through Unit 64. The testing list shifted for 2026 (64 and 69 added, 24 and 32A removed), and Unit 64 is part of Teton County.

Teton County wolf lines by unit

The county's units belong to 1 wolf zone (Island Park); seasons follow units and whether the land is public or private. Wolf trapping requires the trapping license and wolf trapper education, and transmitting trail cameras are allowed for checks from July 1, 2026.

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.

Teton County hunt numbers by species

Tags are 2026 counts for the whole hunt.

Hunts whose units reach the county in 2026 total 21, made up of 7 deer, 9 elk and 5 moose. The tag total for these hunts is 1,587 in 2026, counted by hunt rather than by county.

A second application period, August 5 to 15, covers tags left after the first draw, and controlled tags must be bought by August 1. The once-in-a-lifetime species use the 2025 and 2026 brochure dates for the 2026 hunt.

Teton County: controlled deer (7)

Controlled elk in Teton County (9)

Teton County moose hunt numbers (5)

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.

Teton County land by owner

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

Open public ground in Teton County totals 94,267 GIS acres once overlapping layers are counted once; that is 33% of the county. National forest accounts for 86,164 of those acres, more than any other owner here. Roughly 82,727 forest acres in the county belong to the Teton Basin Ranger District (Caribou-Targhee National Forest), the largest of 2 districts.

The field office with the largest BLM footprint in Teton County is the Upper Snake Field Office, at 8,103 of 8,104 acres. The 1,121 endowment acres are trust land managed for revenue, so they get their own row.

Teton County WMAs, refuges and access areas

Public places past the Teton County line

• Pine Creek Bench (Access Yes!)19 miles, Access Yes! property
• Pine Creek Bench Area near Hwy 31 (Access Yes!)20 miles, Access Yes! property
• East of Ririe Reservoir/ Meadow Creek Junction (Access Yes!)27 miles, Access Yes! property
• Henry's Fork North of Chester Wetlands (Access Yes!)27 miles, Access Yes! property
• Sand Creek Wildlife Management Area31 miles, IDFG WMA
• Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area32 miles, IDFG WMA

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.

Counties near Teton County

Four county guides picked by the shortest centre-to-centre distance, then three statewide planning pages.