This enormous area is composed of three largely private and mostly mountainous units that stretch from Salt Lake City and Interstate 15 all the way to the Wyoming border. Deer and elk numbers are high after several consecutive mild winters. Public land is generally rugged, steep and heavily hunted.

Being one of the largest units in Utah, but having a lot of private land, this unit can be difficult to hunt. Most of the elk that get taken every year come off of private land, but there are still some great hunting opportunities on public land.

The unit is more than 90% mountainous, most of it ideal elk habitat between 6,000 and 8,500 feet above sea level. The eastern edge is on the valley floor in the urban areas of Davis and Salt Lake counties where elevations are barely higher than the Great Salt Lake, and there are several mountain valleys with cropland, creek bottoms and pastures. The higher mountains range from about 9,500 to more than 11,000 feet high and are steep and craggy with the higher reaches above timber line.

Low elevations have croplands, grassy pastures and meadows, oak brush, juniper, Bigtooth Maple. Middle elevations have dense stands of scrub oak and scrub maple with aspen pockets and forests and some conifer-covered slopes, especially on north aspects. High elevations with higher peaks are mostly timber-free and covered by grass, lupine, snowberry and other low bushes. Below the timber line are typically steep, rocky slopes. The south slopes are drier and more open than the north slopes, which are usually densely forested with spruces, firs and aspens.

Hunters easily can reach most of the public land in this area. Moffitt Peak and the mountains around it can be reached from the Mirror Lake Highway and gravel and dirt roads. The public slopes above Davis County are reached from Farmington Canyon, Skyline Drive above Bountiful and some trailheads, such as Mueller Park and Fernwood Recreation Site east of Layton.

Most hunters camp on public ground along dirt roads. Most Forest Service campgrounds are closed by the time rifle deer hunting begins. Lodging is available in Evanston, Wyoming, Coalville, Park City and urban areas in Davis and Salt Lake counties.