Blaine County Hunting, Units and Land

Blaine County unit shares, both ways

Of county: how much of the county lies in the unit. Of unit: how much of the unit lies in the county.

Hunting rules in Blaine County come unit by unit; 9 units are involved, and Unit 49 alone holds 30% of the county. The county holds at least nine tenths of Units 49 and 48.

Along the margins, Units 44, 50 and 53 reach in by a few percent. Units spill across the line most often into Lincoln County, which shares 3 units with the county.

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.

Blaine County CWD units and wolf lines

Blaine County has no CWD zone unit and no mandatory testing unit this season.

Blaine County wolf season lines

Wolf zones here: Southern Mountains, Southern Idaho and Sawtooth. They are data analysis units; the dates come from unit and land type. A trapping license and wolf trapper education are needed to trap wolves, and transmitting cameras may be used to check wolf traps 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.

Blaine County draw hunts and tags

Units here lists only the units of each hunt that lie in the county.

91 controlled hunts have units that reach Blaine County: 23 deer, 34 elk, 17 pronghorn, 3 moose, 5 bighorn sheep and 9 mountain goat. Those hunt numbers hold 3,976 tags between them, whole-hunt numbers rather than county shares.

Deer, elk, pronghorn and fall bear applications ran May 1 to June 5, with a second period August 5 to 15 for leftover hunts; tags are drawn at random. The moose, bighorn and goat rows are 2026 hunts printed in the 2025 and 2026 brochure.

Controlled deer in Blaine County (23)

Elk draws reaching Blaine County (34)

Pronghorn draws reaching Blaine County (17)

Moose hunts with units in Blaine County (3)

Controlled bighorn sheep in Blaine County (5)

Mountain goat draws reaching Blaine County (9)

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.

Blaine County public land, owner by owner

Tribal, park and monument land is shown so you can plan around it, not on it.

1,241,293 acres, or 74% of the county, is the merged figure for public land where an Idaho tag works without asking a landowner. The largest contributor is BLM land, at 564,580 acres of Blaine County. National forest ground splits among 4 districts, the biggest being the Ketchum Ranger District at near 311,875 acres.

BLM ground adds 564,580 acres to the map of Blaine County, and the Shoshone Field Office holds the biggest slice (418,318). State endowment land, about 56,811 GIS acres, is measured separately: Land Board policy allows public recreation there if it does not harm the trust. Plan routes around Craters of the Moon National Monument and Craters of the Moon National Preserve, which IDFG lists as closed. The NPS side of Craters of the Moon National Monument is closed, but the national preserve and the BLM portion are open under Idaho seasons.

Blaine County public places by owner

• Telfer Inc. (Access Yes!)Access Yes! property
• Dry Creek Cattle Assn. (Access Yes!)Access Yes! property
• Bar B Ranch (Access Yes!)Access Yes! property
• Access Yes! property 5940Access Yes! property
• Access Yes! property 5943Access Yes! property
• Picabo Livestock (Access Yes!)Access Yes! property
• Wood River Land Trust – Cowcatcher Ridge (Access Yes!)Access Yes! property
• Wood River Land Trust – Hailey Hot Springs Ranch (Access Yes!)Access Yes! property
• Wood River Land Trust – Porcupine Creek Preserve (Access Yes!)Access Yes! property
• Salmon-Challis National ForestNational forest
• Sawtooth National ForestNational forest
• Sawtooth National Recreation AreaNational recreation area
• Lost River Ranger DistrictRanger district
• Ketchum Ranger DistrictRanger district
• Twin Falls DistrictBLM district
• Idaho Falls DistrictBLM district
• Upper Snake Field OfficeBLM field office
• Shoshone Field OfficeBLM field office
• Burley Field OfficeBLM field office
• Craters of The Moon National Monument (BLM part)BLM part of the monument
• Craters of the Moon National PreserveNational preserve

Open land a short drive from Blaine County

• Champagne Creek West of Arco (Access Yes!)25 miles, Access Yes! property

Parks and monuments in Blaine County where guns stay cased

• Craters of the Moon National MonumentPark Service, closed

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.

Blaine County neighbours worth a look

The four cards are the counties whose middles sit nearest this one; the buttons open statewide topics.