Gooding County for Idaho Hunters

Gooding County hunting units

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

Of the 3 units on the county map, Unit 45 takes in the most ground, about 51%. Elmore County shares the most units with Gooding County (2), so a hunt that starts here often ends 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.

Gooding County disease testing and wolf hunting

No unit in Gooding County is in the CWD Management Zone or on the 2026 mandatory deer testing list.

Wolf zones reaching Gooding County

Southern Idaho is the wolf zone for Gooding County, but the season lines below go unit by unit. The wolf rules for 2026-27 add transmitting cameras for trap checks from July 1, 2026; trapping still requires a trapping license and wolf trapper education.

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.

2026 controlled hunts around Gooding County

Grouped by species, then by opening date.

Drawn hunts with ground in or around Gooding County: 28 in all (10 deer, 6 elk, 10 pronghorn and 2 moose). Tags for these hunts come to 914 this year; a hunt area can cover only part of a unit.

Every controlled hunt is filled by random draw, with deer and elk applications due by June 5 and moose, sheep and goat by April 30. Moose, sheep and goat dates come from the two-year 2025 and 2026 brochure, with the 2026 year applied.

Deer tags drawn around Gooding County (10)

Gooding County elk hunt numbers (6)

Gooding County pronghorn hunt numbers (10)

Moose draws reaching Gooding 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.

Gooding County public hunting ground

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

By the merged GIS count, 52% of Gooding County (244,996 acres) belongs to an owner that opens it to hunting under Idaho seasons. No owner outweighs BLM land here: 242,726 acres. The Shoshone Field Office looks after most of the 242,726 BLM acres inside Gooding County, about 242,674 of them.

State trust land managed by the Idaho Department of Lands covers about 16,325 acres here, listed apart from the public total. Hunting stops at the boundary of Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument.

Gooding County hunting places with their own pages

Gooding County: nearby places in other counties

• Camas Prairie – Centennial Marsh Wildlife Management Area23 miles, IDFG WMA
• Access Yes! property 592225 miles, Access Yes! property
• Access Yes! property 601227 miles, Access Yes! property
• Hammett Livestock (Access Yes!)28 miles, Access Yes! property
• Janss Farms (Access Yes!)30 miles, Access Yes! property
• Faulkner Land & Livestock (Access Yes!)33 miles, Access Yes! property

Gooding County ground off the hunting map

• Hagerman Fossil Beds National MonumentPark Service, 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 Gooding County

On November 11, 2026 the county showed 2 dates ahead, covering DU sportsman’s bingo and trapper certification.

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Gooding County and its nearest counties

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