Unit 56
Elk
Resident licenses
South Hills Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Archery only — any elk, Units 55, 56, and 57 only.
B Tag: Any weapon — antlerless only, Unit 56 only.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
South Hills Zone general elk tag (units 46, 47, 54, 55, 56, 57).
Nonresident general-season elk tags are not sold over the counter: beginning with the 2026 season IDFG issues them by random draw — first application period Dec 5-15, 2025, second application period Feb 5-15, 2026 — against a statewide nonresident general-season quota of 12,815 elk tags.
South Hills Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 60 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 0 additional tags allocated to outfitters), archery-only season.
B Tag: 10 nonresident tags (capped zone — 500 total capped tags, of which 490 are resident tags and 0 are allocated to outfitters).
Price: $651.75 nonresident elk tag plus $185.00 nonresident hunting license (Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules, Nonresident License, Tag and Permit Fees, prices as of December 1, 2024).
Source: 2026 Nonresident General Tags and Tags Allocated to Outfitters, "Nonresident Elk Tags by Zone" and "Elk Tag Limits for Nonresidents and Outfitters by Zone".
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
6+ point bulls: 19 of 35 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 584 | 118 | 20.2% | 4 | 0.7% | 31 | 5.3% | 19 | 3.3% |
| 2024 | 261 | 30 | 11.5% | 2 | 0.8% | 25 | 9.6% | 16 | 6.1% |
| 2023 | 202 | 36 | 17.8% | 4 | 2% | 28 | 13.9% | 21 | 10.4% |
| 2022 | 177 | 20 | 11.3% | 1 | 0.6% | 18 | 10.2% | 6 | 3.4% |
| 2021 | 171 | 16 | 9.4% | 0 | 0% | 14 | 8.2% | 9 | 5.3% |
| 2020 | 312 | 21 | 6.7% | 0 | 0% | 16 | 5.1% | 15 | 4.8% |
| 2019 | 299 | 41 | 13.7% | 0 | 0% | 40 | 13.4% | 28 | 9.4% |
| 2018 | 336 | 56 | 16.7% | 6 | 1.8% | 31 | 9.2% | 23 | 6.8% |
| 2017 | 324 | 26 | 8% | 1 | 0.3% | 23 | 7.1% | 17 | 5.2% |
| 2016 | 352 | 55 | 15.6% | 1 | 0.3% | 22 | 6.3% | 14 | 4% |
| 2015 | 375 | 71 | 18.9% | 2 | 0.5% | 11 | 2.9% | 7 | 1.9% |
| 2014 | 1018 | 201 | 19.7% | 3 | 0.3% | 22 | 2.2% | 22 | 2.2% |
| 2013 | 570 | 41 | 7.2% | 4 | 0.7% | 12 | 2.1% | 9 | 1.6% |
| 2012 | 424 | 35 | 8.3% | 1 | 0.2% | 16 | 3.8% | 12 | 2.8% |
| 2011 | 291 | 23 | 7.9% | 2 | 0.7% | 7 | 2.4% | 7 | 2.4% |
| 2010 | 284 | 41 | 14.4% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 191 | 24 | 12.6% | 1 | 0.5% | 5 | 2.6% | 1 | 0.5% |
| 2008 | 186 | 14 | 7.5% | 1 | 0.5% | 5 | 2.7% | 4 | 2.2% |
| 2007 | 123 | 20 | 16.3% | 9 | 7.3% | 9 | 7.3% | 1 | 0.8% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.
Deer
Resident licenses
Regular Deer Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Antlered: Oct 10 - Oct 24.
Antlerless: None.
Motorized Hunting Rule Applies.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 56 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD56.
Nonresident general-season deer tags are not sold over the counter: beginning with the 2026 season IDFG issues them by random draw — first application period Dec 5-15, 2025, second application period Feb 5-15, 2026 — against a statewide nonresident general-season quota of 15,500 deer tags.
Unit 56 nonresident limit: 179 tags, plus 2 tags allocated to outfitters.
Price: $351.75 nonresident deer tag plus $185.00 nonresident hunting license (Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules, Nonresident License, Tag and Permit Fees, prices as of December 1, 2024).
Source: 2026 Nonresident General Tags and Tags Allocated to Outfitters, "Nonresident Regular Deer Tags by Unit" and "Regular Deer Tag Limits for Nonresidents and Outfitters by Unit".
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Idaho's Regular Deer Tag harvest and success-rate figures below combine the mule and white-tailed deer populations into one number — IDFG doesn't publish a single-species breakdown at the unit level.
4+ point deer (all deer): 124 of 388 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 1922 | 417 | 21.7% | 388 | 20.2% | 124 | 6.5% |
| 2024 | 1828 | 476 | 26% | 472 | 25.8% | 198 | 10.8% |
| 2023 | 1890 | 278 | 14.7% | 258 | 13.7% | 77 | 4.1% |
| 2022 | 1783 | 391 | 21.9% | 375 | 21% | 101 | 5.7% |
| 2021 | 1749 | 452 | 25.8% | 449 | 25.7% | 94 | 5.4% |
| 2020 | 2046 | 267 | 13% | 254 | 12.4% | 71 | 3.5% |
| 2019 | 1959 | 308 | 15.7% | 297 | 15.2% | 125 | 6.4% |
| 2018 | 2189 | 559 | 25.5% | 544 | 24.9% | 131 | 6% |
| 2017 | 2493 | 503 | 20.2% | 484 | 19.4% | 150 | 6% |
| 2016 | 2219 | 616 | 27.8% | 481 | 21.7% | 164 | 7.4% |
| 2015 | 2717 | 689 | 25.4% | 549 | 20.2% | 120 | 4.4% |
| 2014 | 2404 | 590 | 24.5% | 454 | 18.9% | 107 | 4.5% |
| 2013 | 2434 | 418 | 17.2% | 306 | 12.6% | 99 | 4.1% |
| 2012 | 1981 | 660 | 33.3% | 537 | 27.1% | 176 | 8.9% |
| 2011 | 1847 | 315 | 17.1% | 253 | 13.7% | 116 | 6.3% |
| 2010 | 1751 | 425 | 24.3% | 348 | 19.9% | 58 | 3.3% |
| 2009 | 2166 | 371 | 17.1% | 258 | 11.9% | 72 | 3.3% |
| 2008 | 2178 | 528 | 24.2% | 507 | 23.3% | 169 | 7.8% |
| 2007 | 1790 | 481 | 26.9% | 463 | 25.9% | 145 | 8.1% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.