Lewis County Hunting Guide

Lewis County unit shares, both ways

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

Hunting rules in Lewis County come unit by unit; 2 units are involved, and Unit 11A alone holds 60% of the county. Units spill across the line most often into Idaho County, which shares 2 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.

Lewis County CWD units and wolf lines

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

Lewis County wolf season lines

Wolf zones here: Palouse – Hells Canyon. 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.

Lewis County draw hunts and tags

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

13 controlled hunts have units that reach Lewis County: 9 deer, 3 elk and 1 bighorn sheep. Those hunt numbers hold 500 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 Lewis County (9)

Elk draws reaching Lewis County (3)

Controlled bighorn sheep in Lewis 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.

Lewis County public land, owner by owner

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

6,462 acres, or 2% of the county, is the merged figure for public land where an Idaho tag works without asking a landowner. The largest contributor is IDFG WMAs, at 5,900 acres of Lewis County. BLM ground adds 3,124 acres to the map of Lewis County, and the Cottonwood Field Office holds the biggest slice (3,124).

State endowment land, about 2,116 GIS acres, is measured separately: Land Board policy allows public recreation there if it does not harm the trust. Tribal ground covers some 252,946 acres and stays closed to non-members except under tribal authority.

Lewis County reservations and trust land

• Nez Perce Reservation252,946 GIS acres · closed

Lewis County public places by owner

Open land a short drive from Lewis County

• Salmon River & Grave Creek (Access Yes!)23 miles, Access Yes! property
• Boles Area (Access Yes!)23 miles, Access Yes! property
• Lower Genesee Area (Access Yes!)25 miles, Access Yes! property
• Genesee Area – Gray Eagle Rd (Access Yes!)27 miles, Access Yes! property
• Genesee Area – Gray Eagle/Wahl Rd (Access Yes!)29 miles, Access Yes! property
• Genesee Area – Genesee Juliaetta Rd (Access Yes!)30 miles, Access Yes! property

Lewis County parks with no hunting

• Winchester 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.

Around Lewis County

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