Nevada hunting units

Unit 011

Unit 011

Remote high-desert pronghorn country in the far northwest corner

Unit 012

Unit 012

Wilderness rimrock and dark-sky sage steppe with a rare California bighorn tag

Unit 013

Unit 013

The Hays Canyon Range core — mahogany-bench mule deer and open-country pronghorn

Unit 014

Unit 014

Granite Range high country rising out of the Black Rock and Smoke Creek deserts: a solid antelope-and-deer unit with a premium California bighorn tag.

Unit 015

Unit 015

A big, dry expanse of desert ranges and playas west of Gerlach: antelope country and a snow-driven migration deer unit on the California border.

Unit 021

Unit 021

A desert-range unit just north of Reno — Dogskin, Petersen and Fort Sage mountains — with respectable deer and antelope but heavy private ground and urban-interface rules.

Unit 022

Unit 022

Big private-checkered desert-and-mountain country north of Reno: a quality antelope draw with scattered deer and a premium sheep tag.

Unit 031

Unit 031

Big, productive high-desert country on the Oregon line: strong deer and antelope numbers with a rare bighorn tag.

Unit 032

Unit 032

The Pine Forest Range: a compact, near-all-public sky island prized for its California bighorn source herd.

Unit 033

Unit 033

Iconic Sheldon-refuge high desert on the Oregon line: classic pronghorn country with sleeper desert deer and a premium bighorn draw.

Unit 034

Unit 034

The Black Rock Range and desert playa: a premium California bighorn draw with solid desert deer and low-density antelope.

Unit 035

Unit 035

The Jackson Mountains northwest of Winnemucca: a top-tier California bighorn unit paired with excellent, high-success pronghorn.

Unit 041

Unit 041

Big, dry Great Basin antelope country between Gerlach and Lovelock — glass the water, cover the miles.

Unit 042

Unit 042

Trinity, Kamma and Eugene ranges above Rye Patch — a compact water-driven antelope unit.

Unit 043

Unit 043

The Humboldt Range and Star Peak east of Lovelock — the strongest deer-and-antelope combo of the group.

Unit 044

Unit 044

Sonoma Range and East Range pronghorn ground with a sleeper desert bighorn tag

Unit 046

Unit 046

East-side Sonoma Range antelope country on Winnemucca's doorstep

Unit 045

Unit 045

The Tobin Range — 95% public, near-vertical mule deer country over open-basin pronghorn

Unit 051

Unit 051

The Santa Rosa Range and the wide Owyhee Desert north of Winnemucca

Unit 061

Unit 061

Remote sagebrush-and-aspen high country on the Idaho line: antelope-strong, with scattered deer and rutting elk.

Unit 065

Unit 065

Sulphur Spring and Pinon Range foothills between the I-80 valleys: a strong antelope unit with a high-quality, low-density trophy deer tag.

Unit 062

Unit 062

The Independence and Bull Run mountains north of Elko toward the Idaho line

Unit 064

Unit 064

Independence and Tuscarora foothills and bench country northwest of Elko

Unit 073

Unit 073

Wide-open, fire-recovered glassing country north of Elko: antelope-strong with a solid scattering of deer.

Unit 075

Unit 075

The Snake Mountains: the deer engine of this cluster — good numbers, good roads, but a private-land puzzle.

Unit 079

Unit 079

Toano Range high desert between Wells and Wendover — quiet mule deer, elk, and a few pronghorn

Unit 081

Unit 081

Nevada's far-northeast corner — the best big-game unit of the cluster, with a toehold moose herd

Unit 091

Unit 091

The Pilot Range on the Utah line — pronghorn flats under Pilot Peak with a cross-border elk opportunity

Unit 066

Unit 066

Big, remote Snowstorm Mountains-and-Owyhee-Desert country: antelope-strong with all-elevation mule deer and a stray Shiras moose.

Unit 067

Unit 067

Tuscarora Mountains sagebrush and aspen north of Midas: a high-harvest antelope-and-deer unit with a summering elk fringe and a stray moose.

Unit 068

Unit 068

Big, rolling Carlin-country sage-and-aspen: antelope-strong, sleeper mule deer, and a premium California bighorn tag.

Unit 071

Unit 071

Bruneau sage flats climbing to Copper Mountain: strong antelope, good deer, and rutting Jarbidge-complex elk.

Unit 072

Unit 072

The Jarbidge Mountains proper: 10,000-ft peaks, wilderness elk and deer, plus antelope on the fringes.

Unit 074

Unit 074

Small, steep, mostly-public high country on the Idaho line — deep canyons, high peaks and a hiker's hunt.

Unit 076

Unit 076

Big sagebrush-and-mountain country north of Wells: strong antelope, rutting elk, and a shot at a late-season buck.

Unit 077

Unit 077

Big, arid Thousand Springs Valley country near Wells with checkerboard land ownership — scout hard and earn your animals.

Unit 078

Unit 078

The north Pequop Mountains: a compact elk unit with high seasonal densities and the occasional giant late-season buck.

Unit 101

Unit 101

The East Humboldt Range: high, steep mule deer country with elk, antelope and a coveted trickle of goats.

Unit 102

Unit 102

The crown of the Rubies: one of Nevada's biggest mule deer herds plus a rare draw at Great Basin mountain goats.

Unit 103

Unit 103

The quieter south end of the Rubies — mature-buck mule deer with far better access than the crowded north.

Unit 104

Unit 104

Arid transition country east of the Rubies — antelope-first, with a surprisingly strong elk hunt.

Unit 105

Unit 105

Spruce Mountain and the south Pequops — the elk engine of the eastern unit group

Unit 107

Unit 107

The checkerboard unit near Wells — the access problem, not the game, defines it

Unit 106

Unit 106

Big, arid Goshute-Dolly Varden country — good access, thin game

Unit 108

Unit 108

Arid Newark Valley transition country: antelope on the flats, scattered deer, and a trickle of White Pine Range elk.

Unit 109

Unit 109

Small, arid Valley Mountain unit: an elk winter-range door off Spruce Mountain with scattered resident deer.

Unit 111

Unit 111

The unit-group's flagship: the biggest elk herd in the Schell Creek Range plus strong mule deer and Spring Valley antelope.

Unit 112

Unit 112

The Antelope Range and Antelope Valley north of Ely — a three-species draw unit built on habitat work and fire

Unit 222

Unit 222

Schell Creek Range and Mount Grafton country south of Ely — a legitimate elk unit with solid mule deer and a few valley pronghorn

Unit 113

Unit 113

The Kern Mountains and Antelope Valley on the Utah border — border-country elk tied to the Goshute Reservation

Unit 114

Unit 114

Mount Moriah and the north Snake Range — the biggest deer and elk producer of the border units

Unit 115

Unit 115

The huntable flanks of the Snake Range wrapped around Great Basin National Park

Unit 121

Unit 121

Cherry Creek and North Egan Range mule deer country north of Ely

Unit 131

Unit 131

The White Pine Range and its wilderness peaks between Ely and Eureka

Unit 132

Unit 132

A huge, remote Nye County unit built around the Grant and Quinn Canyon high country.

Unit 133

Unit 133

A vast, roadless Lincoln County desert-mountain block built around the Worthington Mountains and Garden and Coal Valleys.

Unit 223

Unit 223

Desert basins and low ranges west of Pioche where water rules everything.

Unit 231

Unit 231

The Wilson Creek and Fortification ranges — one of eastern Nevada's premier elk-and-deer units.

Unit 242

Unit 242

Rainbow Canyon to the Utah line — a big, varied deer unit with an elk and desert-sheep bonus

Unit 134

Unit 134

An isolated central-Nevada desert unit centered on the Pancake Range, best known for its desert bighorn.

Unit 141

Unit 141

A rugged Cortez Mountains and Pine Valley unit that hunts as one of the region's better antelope draws.

Unit 142

Unit 142

Small-quota Sulphur Spring Range antelope ground between Pine and Diamond Valleys

Unit 143

Unit 143

Roberts Mountains and Kobeh Valley — big open public country for antelope and early-season deer

Unit 144

Unit 144

The Diamond Range — the mule deer core of the Eureka County units, plus strong valley antelope

Unit 145

Unit 145

A high, open sage-and-pinyon deer unit built around the Fish Creek Range and Mahogany Hills west of Eureka.

Unit 151

Unit 151

A roadside sagebrush unit wrapped around the town of Battle Mountain — easy-draw deer and antelope on checkerboard ground.

Unit 152

Unit 152

A big Shoshone Range sagebrush unit southeast of Battle Mountain with easy-draw deer and antelope.

Unit 153

Unit 153

Fish Creek Mountains desert country: a strong pronghorn unit with a rare desert bighorn sleeper tag and modest desert deer.

Unit 154

Unit 154

The high northern Toiyabe crest above the Reese River: draw-friendly antelope on the valley floors and a mountain mule deer hunt up top.

Unit 155

Unit 155

The Simpson Park Mountains between Austin and Eureka: a strong, draw-friendly antelope unit with a rugged high-country deer hunt.

Unit 156

Unit 156

Reese River Valley pronghorn country under the Shoshone Range

Unit 161

Unit 161

The Toquima Range and Mount Jefferson high country

Unit 162

Unit 162

The Monitor Range and Table Mountain — central Nevada's elk stronghold

Unit 163

Unit 163

Hot Creek Range high country that fills with migrating mule deer once the snow flies

Unit 164

Unit 164

Isolated Pancake Range desert on the edge of Railroad Valley — low-pressure and wide open

Unit 171

Unit 171

Wide-open pronghorn country on the dry western edge of the Toiyabe/Shoshone deer group

Unit 172

Unit 172

Quiet Shoshone Range deer country with high-percentage pronghorn and a toehold elk herd — the low-crowd alternative to neighboring 173.

Unit 173

Unit 173

The Toiyabe Range crown jewel: central Nevada's top mule deer producer with an Arc Dome Wilderness high country, desert bighorn, and high-success pronghorn.

Unit 181

Unit 181

Big, arid Fallon-country desert: high-success pronghorn on the flats, a premium desert bighorn draw, and sleeper desert mule deer.

Unit 182

Unit 182

The long, dry Stillwater and East Ranges east of Fallon: high-success antelope, a coveted desert bighorn tag, and scattered desert mule deer.

Unit 183

Unit 183

The rugged Clan Alpine Mountains north of Highway 50: one of the region's best antelope and desert-bighorn units, with scattered high-desert mule deer.

Unit 184

Unit 184

The high, rugged Desatoya Mountains south of Highway 50: strong antelope, a high-success desert bighorn hunt, and scattered mountain mule deer.

Unit 192

Unit 192

Sierra-front deer and one of Nevada's only black-bear units, wedged between Lake Tahoe and the Carson Valley.

Unit 194

Unit 194

The North Carson Range above Reno-Carson City: a strong western-Nevada deer unit and one of the state's better black bear units.

Unit 195

Unit 195

Comstock-country deer on rolling sage hills between Reno, Carson City and the Truckee River.

Unit 196

Unit 196

A small, high-success migratory-buck unit on Reno's Peavine and Sierra front.

Unit 201

Unit 201

Steep Sierra-front deer country in the Sweetwater Mountains with a rare western-Nevada black bear opportunity.

Unit 202

Unit 202

The Wassuk Range and Mount Grant: a premium California bighorn tag over Walker Lake, with migratory deer and a marginal antelope herd.

Unit 203

Unit 203

The Walker River farm-valley unit: irrigated Mason and Smith valleys, a strong antelope draw, and migratory foothill deer.

Unit 204

Unit 204

Rut-season mule deer and pronghorn in the Pine Grove Hills above the Walker River

Unit 205

Unit 205

Steep, rocky desert bighorn country in the Gillis and Gabbs Valley Ranges east of Hawthorne

Unit 206

Unit 206

Big, near-total-public desert-sheep country in the Excelsior Mountains and Garfield Hills

Unit 207

Unit 207

Desert-valley-and-rimrock sheep country in the Gabbs Valley Range and Pilot Mountains — a very healthy bighorn herd carries the unit.

Unit 208

Unit 208

Low-density desert-bighorn ground in the Candelaria Hills and Excelsior Mountains — a small unit best joined to its neighbors.

Unit 211

Unit 211

Big, empty Silver Peak Range and Clayton Valley country near Goldfield — the unit's mule deer carry the most harvest, with premium antelope and bighorn tags on top.

Unit 212

Unit 212

Big, empty desert-mountain country west of Goldfield — a premium desert bighorn draw with scattered pronghorn and thin deer

Unit 213

Unit 213

The Monte Cristo Range west of Tonopah — a well-roaded desert bighorn and pronghorn unit with only marginal deer

Unit 221

Unit 221

A narrow north–south elk range walling the White River and Cave valleys.

Unit 241

Unit 241

Delamar and Clover mountains desert country — a quality-buck and premium desert-sheep unit.

Unit 243

Unit 243

Meadow Valley Range desert-sheep country between Caliente and Glendale

Unit 244

Unit 244

Arrow Canyon Range desert-sheep unit on the Mojave's edge west of Glendale

Unit 245

Unit 245

Rough desert ranges above the Pahranagat Valley where water is everything.

Unit 251

Unit 251

Wide-valley pronghorn country under the Kawich Range, hard against the Nellis range boundary

Unit 252

Unit 252

Stonewall Mountain and the northern Grapevines, wedged against the Nellis boundary west of US 95

Unit 253

Unit 253

Bare Mountain and the Bullfrog Hills — one of Nevada's premier trophy desert bighorn units

Unit 254

Unit 254

A compact desert-sheep range on the edge of the Amargosa and the Nellis line

Unit 261

Unit 261

Last Chance Range desert sheep country northwest of Pahrump

Unit 262

Unit 262

The Spring Mountains — Charleston Peak country between Las Vegas and Pahrump

Unit 266

Unit 266

The Eldorado Mountains on the Colorado River — a boat-access desert-sheep unit below Boulder City

Unit 267

Unit 267

Black Mountains and Mormon Mesa on the Overton arm of Lake Mead — steep cliff sheep with boat access

Unit 268

Unit 268

The Muddy Mountains — one of Nevada's premier desert-bighorn units, below Valley of Fire

Unit 284

Unit 284

The heart of the Sheep Range — Hayford Peak and a once-in-a-lifetime desert bighorn tag

Unit 286

Unit 286

The Las Vegas Range — a once-in-a-lifetime desert bighorn ram in the mountains you can see from the Strip

Unit 263

Unit 263

A once-in-a-lifetime desert bighorn stronghold in Las Vegas's backyard

Unit 264

Unit 264

Sacred granite of Spirit Mountain — a premier once-in-a-lifetime desert bighorn range

Unit 265

Unit 265

Lake Mohave's rugged shoreline peaks — a healthy, accessible desert bighorn unit

Unit 269

Unit 269

Small desert range between Henderson, Boulder City, and Lake Mead

Unit 271

Unit 271

Rugged desert bighorn stronghold in the Mormon and East Mormon Mountains

Unit 272

Unit 272

Arid Virgin Mountains and Gold Butte country on Lake Mead's north and east shore

Unit 280

Unit 280

A once-in-a-lifetime desert bighorn tag on the closed western edge of the Nellis range

Unit 281

Unit 281

Scattered desert rams on a remote, off-limits range inside the Nellis complex

Unit 282

Unit 282

The westernmost sheep range of the refuge — a rare, tightly managed desert bighorn tag

Unit 283

Unit 283

The northern Sheep and East Desert ranges — remote desert bighorn country reaching toward Alamo

Unit 291

Unit 291

The Pine Nut Range on the Sierra front — deer, a few antelope, and a rare draw-only bear tag