Shoshone County, Idaho Hunting

Shoshone County unit shares, both ways

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

The county is divided among 7 units, led by Unit 4 with 38% of its land. Nearly all of Units 7 and 9 falls within Shoshone County.

Small slivers of Units 10A, 10 and 3 cross the line too. Expect to cross into Kootenai 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.

Shoshone County CWD status and wolf seasons

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

Wolf hunting and trapping in Shoshone County

For wolf data IDFG groups units into zones, and Shoshone County falls in 3 wolf zones: Panhandle, Dworshak – Elk City and Lolo. 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 Shoshone 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: 7 deer, 12 elk, 24 moose and 2 mountain goat. Summed across hunt numbers that is 913 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 Shoshone County (7)

Elk tags drawn around Shoshone County (12)

Controlled moose in Shoshone County (24)

Mountain goat tags drawn around Shoshone 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.

Shoshone County public hunting ground

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 Shoshone County shows 1,319,465 GIS acres of public hunting ground, 78% of its land. National forest carries the most weight, with 1,248,220 acres inside Shoshone County. Most forest acres fall to the St. Joe Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests (704,711 acres).

On the BLM side, the Coeur d'Alene Field Office runs 58,643 acres of the county total of 58,643. About 56,668 acres of state endowment land lie in Shoshone County, shown on its own line rather than in the public total.

Shoshone County hunting places with their own pages

Shoshone County: nearby places in other counties

• Kroetch Land & Timber Company: Evans Cr, Willow Cr, and Rosewood Drive (Access Yes!)34 miles, Access Yes! property
• Coeur d' Alene River Wildlife Management Area35 miles, IDFG WMA

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 Shoshone County

County total as of November 11, 2026: 2 dates ahead (DU conservation dinner and RMEF chapter banquet).

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Around Shoshone County

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