Camas County Hunting Overview

Camas County unit shares, both ways

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

Hunting rules in Camas County come unit by unit; 4 units are involved, and Unit 44 alone holds 37% of the county. Units spill across the line most often into Elmore 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.

Camas County CWD units and wolf lines

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

Camas County wolf season lines

Wolf zones here: Southern Mountains and Southern Idaho. 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.

Camas County draw hunts and tags

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

43 controlled hunts have units that reach Camas County: 16 deer, 16 elk, 8 pronghorn, 2 moose and 1 mountain goat. Those hunt numbers hold 2,092 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 Camas County (16)

Elk draws reaching Camas County (16)

Pronghorn draws reaching Camas County (8)

Moose hunts with units in Camas County (2)

Mountain goat draws reaching Camas 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.

Camas County land by owner

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

432,983 acres, or 63% of the county, is the merged figure for public land where an Idaho tag works without asking a landowner. Sort the owners by size and national forest comes first, 309,105 acres within the county line. For forest roads, fire closures and camping rules, the Fairfield Ranger District covers about 308,954 acres of the county.

BLM ground adds 118,088 acres to the map of Camas County, and the Shoshone Field Office holds the biggest slice (118,081). State endowment land, about 20,917 GIS acres, is measured separately: Land Board policy allows public recreation there if it does not harm the trust.

Camas County WMAs, refuges and access areas

Public places past the Camas County line

• Wood River Land Trust – Hailey Hot Springs Ranch (Access Yes!)19 miles, Access Yes! property
• Rinker Rock Creek Ranch (Access Yes!)21 miles, Access Yes! property
• Wood River Land Trust – Cowcatcher Ridge (Access Yes!)26 miles, Access Yes! property
• Brown Ranch, Inc. (Access Yes!)33 miles, Access Yes! property
• Access Yes! property 593634 miles, Access Yes! property
• Wood River Land Trust – Porcupine Creek Preserve (Access Yes!)34 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.

Close to Camas County

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