Unit 62
Elk
Resident licenses
Island Park Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Archery only — any elk Aug 30-Sep 30; Muzzleloader only — spike or antlerless, Unit 61 only.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Island Park Zone general elk tag (units 60, 60A, 61, 62, 62A).
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.
Island Park Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 216 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 20 additional tags allocated to outfitters), archery-only and muzzleloader-only seasons.
B Tag: no B Tags are offered in this zone.
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: 20 of 26 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 225 | 36 | 16% | 0 | 0% | 26 | 11.6% | 20 | 8.9% |
| 2024 | 159 | 10 | 6.3% | 0 | 0% | 8 | 5% | 6 | 3.8% |
| 2023 | 195 | 24 | 12.3% | 0 | 0% | 18 | 9.2% | 1 | 0.5% |
| 2022 | 210 | 24 | 11.4% | 5 | 2.4% | 14 | 6.7% | 8 | 3.8% |
| 2021 | 201 | 40 | 19.9% | 0 | 0% | 30 | 14.9% | 5 | 2.5% |
| 2020 | 272 | 25 | 9.2% | 3 | 1.1% | 16 | 5.9% | 15 | 5.5% |
| 2019 | 167 | 15 | 9% | 1 | 0.6% | 11 | 6.6% | 5 | 3% |
| 2018 | 300 | 47 | 15.7% | 17 | 5.7% | 27 | 9% | 26 | 8.7% |
| 2017 | 211 | 46 | 21.8% | 2 | 0.9% | 30 | 14.2% | 12 | 5.7% |
| 2016 | 168 | 33 | 19.6% | 6 | 3.6% | 16 | 9.5% | 3 | 1.8% |
| 2015 | 177 | 25 | 14.1% | 8 | 4.5% | 17 | 9.6% | 8 | 4.5% |
| 2014 | 209 | 16 | 7.7% | 3 | 1.4% | 10 | 4.8% | 7 | 3.3% |
| 2013 | 198 | 22 | 11.1% | 1 | 0.5% | 16 | 8.1% | 8 | 4% |
| 2012 | 191 | 21 | 11% | 1 | 0.5% | 13 | 6.8% | 9 | 4.7% |
| 2011 | 304 | 49 | 16.1% | 0 | 0% | 25 | 8.2% | 8 | 2.6% |
| 2010 | 321 | 46 | 14.3% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 297 | 42 | 14.1% | 0 | 0% | 7 | 2.4% | 3 | 1% |
| 2008 | 337 | 41 | 12.2% | 0 | 0% | 18 | 5.3% | 14 | 4.2% |
| 2007 | 286 | 36 | 12.6% | 5 | 1.7% | 14 | 4.9% | 8 | 2.8% |
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.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 62 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD62.
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 62 nonresident limit: 34 tags, plus 9 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): 31 of 103 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 592 | 120 | 20.3% | 103 | 17.4% | 31 | 5.2% |
| 2024 | 599 | 96 | 16% | 79 | 13.2% | 37 | 6.2% |
| 2023 | 455 | 44 | 9.7% | 30 | 6.6% | 11 | 2.4% |
| 2022 | 512 | 74 | 14.5% | 51 | 10% | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | 553 | 94 | 17% | 91 | 16.5% | 35 | 6.3% |
| 2020 | 737 | 107 | 14.5% | 78 | 10.6% | 8 | 1.1% |
| 2019 | 670 | 134 | 20% | 109 | 16.3% | 37 | 5.5% |
| 2018 | 636 | 146 | 23% | 100 | 15.7% | 16 | 2.5% |
| 2017 | 751 | 179 | 23.8% | 106 | 14.1% | 46 | 6.1% |
| 2016 | 640 | 213 | 33.3% | 168 | 26.3% | 91 | 14.2% |
| 2015 | 588 | 157 | 26.7% | 101 | 17.2% | 27 | 4.6% |
| 2014 | 589 | 139 | 23.6% | 108 | 18.3% | 24 | 4.1% |
| 2013 | 577 | 128 | 22.2% | 114 | 19.8% | 28 | 4.9% |
| 2012 | 422 | 104 | 24.6% | 81 | 19.2% | 24 | 5.7% |
| 2011 | 446 | 54 | 12.1% | 47 | 10.5% | 10 | 2.2% |
| 2010 | 562 | 47 | 8.4% | 34 | 6% | 19 | 3.4% |
| 2009 | 412 | 66 | 16% | 54 | 13.1% | 21 | 5.1% |
| 2008 | 663 | 67 | 10.1% | 41 | 6.2% | 15 | 2.3% |
| 2007 | 647 | 138 | 21.3% | 104 | 16.1% | 35 | 5.4% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.