Lincoln County Hunting, Units and Land

Lincoln County by hunting unit

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

3 IDFG hunting units reach into Lincoln County, and Unit 52A covers the largest piece, 44% of the county. The neighbour with the most shared units is Blaine County: 3 of them.

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.

Lincoln County CWD rules and wolf zones

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

Lincoln County wolf zones, units and dates

IDFG maps Lincoln County into 1 wolf zone, Southern Idaho, 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 Lincoln County

Rows come from the 2026 draw.

The 2026 draw lists 18 hunt numbers whose units cross into the county (6 deer, 5 elk, 6 pronghorn and 1 moose). Together they carry 591 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.

Lincoln County deer hunt numbers (6)

Elk hunts with units in Lincoln County (5)

Pronghorn hunts with units in Lincoln County (6)

Lincoln County: controlled moose (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.

Lincoln County forests, BLM and WMAs

Solid points on the map are places in the county; hollow ones lie just outside it.

Of every hundred acres in Lincoln County, about 73 are public hunting ground, 560,271 acres on the merged layers. The largest contributor is BLM land, at 552,318 acres of Lincoln County. Call the Shoshone Field Office about BLM roads and closures here; its share is roughly 552,086 of 552,318 BLM acres.

Idaho Department of Lands endowment land adds about 20,717 acres, kept out of the public total because recreation there is a secondary use. The national park unit in Lincoln County, Craters of the Moon National Preserve, is closed to hunting.

Lincoln County hunting places with their own pages

Lincoln County: nearby places in other counties

• Picabo Livestock (Access Yes!)17 miles, Access Yes! property
• Access Yes! property 593619 miles, Access Yes! property
• Dry Creek Cattle Assn. (Access Yes!)25 miles, Access Yes! property
• Carey Lake Wildlife Management Area26 miles, IDFG WMA
• Bar B Ranch (Access Yes!)29 miles, Access Yes! property
• Rinker Rock Creek Ranch (Access Yes!)30 miles, Access Yes! property

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.

Lincoln County neighbours worth a look

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