Oneida County Hunting Guide

Oneida County hunting units

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

Of the 4 units on the county map, Unit 73 takes in the most ground, about 63%. Less than 5% of the county falls in each of Unit 57, but those slivers still follow their own unit seasons.

Power County shares the most units with Oneida County (3), so a hunt that starts here often ends there. Units 56 and 57 are not listed in the 2026 fall or 2027 spring general black bear tables; the brochure is the place to check.

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.

Oneida County disease testing and wolf hunting

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

Wolf zones reaching Oneida County

Southern Idaho is the wolf zone for Oneida 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 Oneida County

Grouped by species, then by opening date.

Drawn hunts with ground in or around Oneida County: 29 in all (14 deer, 7 elk, 4 pronghorn and 4 moose). Tags for these hunts come to 1,080 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 Oneida County (14)

Oneida County elk hunt numbers (7)

Oneida County pronghorn hunt numbers (4)

Moose draws reaching Oneida County (4)

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.

Oneida County public hunting ground

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

By the merged GIS count, 50% of Oneida County (382,072 acres) belongs to an owner that opens it to hunting under Idaho seasons. BLM land accounts for 251,608 of those acres, more than any other owner here. For forest roads, fire closures and camping rules, the Westside Ranger District covers about 116,648 acres of the county.

The Pocatello Field Office looks after most of the 251,608 BLM acres inside Oneida County, about 243,299 of them. State trust land managed by the Idaho Department of Lands covers about 12,256 acres here, listed apart from the public total.

Oneida County hunting places with their own pages

Oneida County: nearby places in other counties

• Hillhouse Canyon (Access Yes!)16 miles, Access Yes! property
• Arbon – East Bench (Access Yes!)22 miles, Access Yes! property
• Black Canyon (Access Yes!)26 miles, Access Yes! property
• Excalibur Ranches – Rockland East Bench (Access Yes!)27 miles, Access Yes! property
• Cliff Canyon (Access Yes!)30 miles, Access Yes! property
• Arimo Corp. (Access Yes!)33 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.

Oneida County sunrise and shooting times

Migratory bird hours follow a separate IDFG table in the migratory brochure, so ducks, geese and doves are not timed in this Oneida County table.

Migratory birds: see the IDFG table.

Hours rule from the Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules (wolf and upland game animals: same rule, wolf, upland); time zone from 49 CFR 71.9; sunrise and sunset worked out for this location with the NOAA solar formula (Mountain Time); migratory bird hours: IDFG migratory bird table; checked November 12, 2026. Legal hours for every county.

Counties near Oneida County

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