Boise County Hunting Overview

Boise County by hunting unit

Click a unit for its hunt numbers, harvest and season lines.

6 IDFG hunting units reach into Boise County, and Unit 39 covers the largest piece, 50% of the county. Hunters who head into Unit 35 spend nearly all of that time in Boise County.

Units 32A and 34 touch Boise County only at its edge. The neighbour with the most shared units is Valley County: 4 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.

Boise County CWD rules and wolf zones

CWD rules for 2026 do not reach Boise County: the zone is Units 14, 18 and part of Unit 1, and testing adds Units 23, 63A, 64 and 69. The 2026 testing list changed: Units 64 and 69 in, Units 24 and 32A out. Unit 32A touches Boise County.

Boise County wolf zones, units and dates

IDFG maps Boise County into 2 wolf zones, Sawtooth and McCall – Weiser, 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 Boise County

Rows come from the 2026 draw.

The 2026 draw lists 30 hunt numbers whose units cross into the county (13 deer, 9 elk, 6 pronghorn and 2 mountain goat). Together they carry 2,795 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.

Boise County deer hunt numbers (13)

Elk hunts with units in Boise County (9)

Pronghorn hunts with units in Boise County (6)

Mountain goat hunts with units in Boise County (2)

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.

Boise County public hunting ground

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

Of every hundred acres in Boise County, about 72 are public hunting ground, 871,064 acres on the merged layers. Sort the owners by size and national forest comes first, 837,316 acres within the county line. Roughly 295,380 forest acres in the county belong to the Idaho City Ranger District (Boise National Forest), the largest of 5 districts.

Call the Four Rivers Field Office about BLM roads and closures here; its share is roughly 29,998 of 29,998 BLM acres. Idaho Department of Lands endowment land adds about 82,254 acres, kept out of the public total because recreation there is a secondary use.

Boise County hunting places with their own pages

Boise County: nearby places in other counties

• Montour Wildlife Management Area31 miles, IDFG WMA
• Highland Land and Livestock Boise River WMA (Access Yes!)33 miles, Access Yes! property
• Willow-Oxarango (Access Yes!)35 miles, Access Yes! property
• A L Cattle – Dodson Pass (Access Yes!)39 miles, Access Yes! property

Boise County closed sites

• Lucky Peak State ParkState park, 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.

Upcoming in Boise County

County total as of November 11, 2026: 1 date ahead (hunter and bowhunter certification).

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Close to Boise County

Ranked by the gap between Census interior points, these four Idaho counties lie closest; three statewide topics follow.