Caribou County, Idaho Hunting

Caribou County hunting units

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

Idaho sets big game seasons unit by unit, and Caribou County touches 7 of them; 44% of the county lies in Unit 76. Unit 72 lies almost entirely inside the county, so its unit page reads as a guide to local ground.

Units 69 and 66A only clip the edge, each under 5% of the county. 3 units straddle the line with Bingham County, more than with any other 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.

Chronic wasting disease and wolves in Caribou County

IDFG requires CWD testing of harvested deer in Unit 69, even though it is not in the management zone. IDFG moved Units 64 and 69 onto the testing list and took Units 24 and 32A off for 2026, which matters here because of Unit 69.

Caribou County wolf zones and wolf seasons

On the wolf zone layer Caribou County reads Southern Idaho; season dates depend on the unit and the land type. To trap a wolf, hold a trapping license and complete wolf trapper education; transmitting cameras became legal for wolf trap checks on 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.

Caribou County controlled hunts for 2026

Hunts whose units reach the county; the hunt area itself can be smaller than the unit.

IDFG hunt numbers with a unit in Caribou County add up to 44, namely 8 deer, 24 elk, 1 pronghorn and 11 moose. Their 2026 tag counts add up to 4,364, a sum that includes tags for ground outside Caribou County.

Idaho draws controlled hunts at random: apply May 1 to June 5 for deer, elk, pronghorn and fall bear, April 1 to 30 for moose, sheep and goat. Moose, bighorn sheep and goat hunts below follow the 2025 and 2026 brochure (2026 season).

Deer draws reaching Caribou County (8)

Caribou County: controlled elk (24)

Caribou County: controlled pronghorn (1)

Moose tags drawn around Caribou County (11)

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.

Caribou County public land, owner by owner

Private land in Access Yes! and Large Tracts is open only on program terms.

The merged map of public hunting land in Caribou County reaches 433,988 acres, 38% of the county surface. National forest carries the most weight, with 358,573 acres inside Caribou County. For forest roads, fire closures and camping rules, the Soda Springs Ranger District covers about 237,394 acres of the county.

72,477 acres are BLM-managed, and 72,477 of those report to the Pocatello Field Office. Endowment land (100,567 GIS acres) sits outside the merged total; the IDFG brochure lists it among its access programs. The 36,081 acres of reservation and trust land are not public hunting ground; entering them to hunt without tribal permission is unlawful.

Tribal land in Caribou County, closed to non-members

• Fort Hall Reservation35,860 GIS acres · closed
• Fort Hall Off-Reservation Trust Land221 GIS acres · closed

Caribou County public places by owner

Open land a short drive from Caribou County

• Georgetown Summit Wildlife Management Area19 miles, IDFG WMA
• Portneuf River (Access Yes!)29 miles, Access Yes! property
• Inkom – East Bench (Access Yes!)32 miles, Access Yes! property
• Portneuf Wildlife Management Area33 miles, IDFG WMA
• McNabb Canyon (Access Yes!)34 miles, Access Yes! property
• Montpelier Wildlife Management Area35 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.

Around Caribou County

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