Elmore County, Idaho Hunting

Elmore County by hunting unit

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

7 IDFG hunting units reach into Elmore County, and Unit 39 covers the largest piece, 42% of the county. Units 44 and 53 touch Elmore County only at its edge.

The neighbour with the most shared units is Camas County: 3 of them. The general black bear tables leave out Units 38 and 46; read the brochure before planning a bear hunt there.

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.

Elmore County CWD rules and wolf zones

CWD rules for 2026 do not reach Elmore County: the zone is Units 14, 18 and part of Unit 1, and testing adds Units 23, 63A, 64 and 69.

Elmore County wolf zones, units and dates

IDFG maps Elmore County into 3 wolf zones, Sawtooth, Southern Idaho and Southern Mountains, 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 Elmore County

Rows come from the 2026 draw.

The 2026 draw lists 66 hunt numbers whose units cross into the county (23 deer, 25 elk, 15 pronghorn, 1 moose and 2 mountain goat). Together they carry 4,529 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.

Elmore County deer hunt numbers (23)

Elk hunts with units in Elmore County (25)

Pronghorn hunts with units in Elmore County (15)

Elmore County: controlled moose (1)

Mountain goat hunts with units in Elmore 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.

Elmore 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 Elmore County, about 67 are public hunting ground, 1,326,365 acres on the merged layers. National forest carries the most weight, with 757,326 acres inside Elmore County. Roughly 437,921 forest acres in the county belong to the Mountain Home Ranger District (Boise National Forest), the largest of 4 districts.

Call the Four Rivers Field Office about BLM roads and closures here; its share is roughly 401,096 of 555,345 BLM acres. Idaho Department of Lands endowment land adds about 108,151 acres, kept out of the public total because recreation there is a secondary use.

Elmore County hunting places with their own pages

• Boise DistrictBLM district
• Twin Falls DistrictBLM district
• Shoshone Field OfficeBLM field office
• Jarbidge Field OfficeBLM field office
• Four Rivers Field OfficeBLM field office
• Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation AreaBLM conservation area

Elmore County: nearby places in other counties

• Access Yes! property 601224 miles, Access Yes! property
• Highland Land and Livestock Boise River WMA (Access Yes!)31 miles, Access Yes! property
• Access Yes! property 592232 miles, Access Yes! property
• Bruneau Floodplain at CJ Strike (Access Yes!)39 miles, Access Yes! property

Elmore County places closed to all hunting

• Three Island Crossing 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 Elmore County

County total as of November 11, 2026: 2 dates ahead (DU conservation dinner and RMEF chapter banquet).

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Around Elmore County

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