Adams County for Idaho Hunters

Adams County by hunting unit

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

5 IDFG hunting units reach into Adams County, and Unit 22 covers the largest piece, 46% of the county. Units 32 and 18 touch Adams County only at its edge.

The neighbour with the most shared units is Washington County: 3 of them.

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.

Adams County CWD rules and wolf zones

Chronic wasting disease rules bite here, because Unit 18 is inside the 2026 CWD Management Zone. Plan the trip home: deer, elk and moose carcasses cannot be transported out of the zone except as meat or allowed parts, and deer testing is mandatory. Unit 23 is a mandatory testing unit for 2026, so every deer from it goes in for a CWD test. The 2026 testing list changed: Units 64 and 69 in, Units 24 and 32A out. Unit 32A touches Adams County.

Adams County wolf zones, units and dates

IDFG maps Adams County into 2 wolf zones, McCall – Weiser and Palouse – Hells Canyon, 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 Adams County

Rows come from the 2026 draw.

The 2026 draw lists 43 hunt numbers whose units cross into the county (14 deer, 20 elk, 2 pronghorn, 2 mountain goat and 5 black bear). Together they carry 2,668 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. Dates for moose, sheep and goat use the month and day in the two-year brochure, set to 2026.

Adams County deer hunt numbers (14)

Elk hunts with units in Adams County (20)

Pronghorn hunts with units in Adams County (2)

Mountain goat hunts with units in Adams County (2)

Adams County black bear 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.

Adams 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 Adams County, about 63 are public hunting ground, 553,203 acres on the merged layers. The largest contributor is national forest, at 500,227 acres of Adams County. Roughly 300,642 forest acres in the county belong to the Council Ranger District (Payette National Forest), the largest of 5 districts.

Call the Four Rivers Field Office about BLM roads and closures here; its share is roughly 48,252 of 52,815 BLM acres. Idaho Department of Lands endowment land adds about 40,365 acres, kept out of the public total because recreation there is a secondary use.

Adams County places, card by card

• Four Rivers Field OfficeBLM field office
• Cottonwood Field OfficeBLM field office

Adams County neighbours with open land

• A L Cattle – Shirts Creek (Access Yes!)32 miles, Access Yes! property
• Midvale Hill (Access Yes!)35 miles, Access Yes! property
• 7 Devils (Access Yes!)36 miles, Access Yes! property
• A L Cattle – Dodson Pass (Access Yes!)38 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.

Adams County neighbours worth a look

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