Fremont County Hunting, Units and Land

Fremont County unit shares, both ways

Percentages come from overlaying the IDFG unit polygons on county lines.

The county is divided among 5 units, led by Unit 61 with 24% of its land. Nearly all of Unit 62A falls within Fremont County.

Expect to cross into Clark County on foot; 3 of these units run into it.

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.

Fremont County CWD status and wolf seasons

None of the county's units appears in the 2026 CWD rules.

Wolf hunting and trapping in Fremont County

For wolf data IDFG groups units into zones, and Fremont County falls in 1 wolf zone: Island Park. Wolf seasons themselves are set by unit and land type. Trappers need both the trapping license and the wolf trapper education course, and may watch wolf sets with transmitting cameras since 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.

Drawn hunts reaching Fremont County

Each hunt number links its IDFG Hunt Planner page with the exact boundary.

Counting every species, 45 controlled hunts touch the county this year: 16 deer, 20 elk, 1 pronghorn, 7 moose and 1 mountain goat. Summed across hunt numbers that is 5,709 tags, not all of them used inside the county.

Moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat applications are taken April 1 to 30; spring bear January 15 to February 15. For moose, sheep and goat the brochure covers two years; the table shows the 2026 hunt.

Deer hunts with units in Fremont County (16)

Elk tags drawn around Fremont County (20)

Pronghorn tags drawn around Fremont County (1)

Controlled moose in Fremont County (7)

Mountain goat tags drawn around Fremont 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.

Fremont County forests, BLM and WMAs

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

Merge the WMA, national forest, grassland, BLM, refuge and preserve layers, take out tribal land, and Fremont County shows 673,874 GIS acres of public hunting ground, 56% of its land. The largest contributor is national forest, at 509,965 acres of Fremont County. Most forest acres fall to the Ashton/Island Park Ranger District of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest (509,604 acres).

On the BLM side, the Upper Snake Field Office runs 144,620 acres of the county total of 144,623. About 82,958 acres of state endowment land lie in Fremont County, shown on its own line rather than in the public total. No hunting is allowed in Yellowstone National Park; the brochure closes every national park and monument.

Fremont County places, card by card

Fremont County neighbours with open land

• Eighteen Mile Ranch- Camas Creek near Kilgore (Access Yes!)21 miles, Access Yes! property
• Kilgore Area (Access Yes!)22 miles, Access Yes! property
• North Teton River (Access Yes!)29 miles, Access Yes! property
• Cartier Slough Wildlife Management Area35 miles, IDFG WMA
• Henry's Fork near Cartier Wildlife Management Area west of Rexburg (Access Yes!)36 miles, Access Yes! property

Parks and monuments in Fremont County where guns stay cased

• Yellowstone National ParkPark Service, closed
• Harriman State ParkState park, closed
• Henrys Lake 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.

Fremont County neighbours worth a look

Shortest gazetteer distance decides these four county cards; the buttons lead to statewide references.