Valley County, Idaho Hunting

Valley 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 Valley County come unit by unit; 10 units are involved, and Unit 25 alone holds 24% of the county. The county holds at least nine tenths of Units 25, 24 and 34.

Along the margins, Units 19A, 20A, 32A and 32 reach in by a few percent. Units spill across the line most often into Boise County, which shares 4 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.

Valley County CWD units and wolf lines

Valley County has no CWD zone unit and no mandatory testing unit this season. Units 64 and 69 were added to mandatory testing for 2026, and Units 24 and 32A were dropped after two years without a detection; Units 24 and 32A are in Valley County.

Valley County wolf season lines

Wolf zones here: McCall – Weiser, Middle Fork and Sawtooth. 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.

Valley County draw hunts and tags

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

57 controlled hunts have units that reach Valley County: 13 deer, 24 elk, 2 pronghorn, 12 bighorn sheep, 4 mountain goat and 2 black bear. Those hunt numbers hold 2,886 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 Valley County (13)

Elk draws reaching Valley County (24)

Pronghorn draws reaching Valley County (2)

Controlled bighorn sheep in Valley County (12)

Mountain goat draws reaching Valley County (4)

Controlled black bear in Valley 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.

Valley County public land, owner by owner

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

2,005,635 acres, or 86% of the county, is the merged figure for public land where an Idaho tag works without asking a landowner. Sort the owners by size and national forest comes first, 2,003,485 acres within the county line. National forest ground splits among 7 districts, the biggest being the Krassel Ranger District at near 658,515 acres.

BLM ground adds 2,151 acres to the map of Valley County, and the Four Rivers Field Office holds the biggest slice (2,151). State endowment land, about 63,556 GIS acres, is measured separately: Land Board policy allows public recreation there if it does not harm the trust.

Valley County public places by owner

Open land a short drive from Valley County

• Osborn Ranch – New Meadows (Access Yes!)30 miles, Access Yes! property

Valley County closed sites

• Lake Cascade State ParkState park, closed
• Ponderosa 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.

Valley County banquets and classes

County total as of November 11, 2026: 1 date ahead (RMEF chapter banquet).

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