This overwhelmingly private unit holds good numbers of deer and has good trophy potential due to the large tracts of private lands providing some security for the herds. The biggest challenge for most hunters in this unit will be finding unpressured public lands. If private access can be granted the odds of filling a tag will increase.

With this unit being primarily private this can be a difficult hunt. Most of the good bucks that get taken every year come off of private land, but there are still some great deer on public. Most tag holders hunt on public land, which can be extremely crowded.

This unit consists of a few square miles of public land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Countless private ranches of various sizes are east of Rockport and Echo reservoirs up to the Wyoming border. Most of the land is mountainous and moderately steep, but there are some steep drainages of the Weber River and Chalk Creek. The highest terrain is above 10,000 feet and includes several lakes in high basins.

Lowlands vary from grassy meadows and hay farms to sagebrush flats and ridges. Cottonwoods, willows, sedges, cattails and bulrushes grow along lowland waterways. Slopes above them are covered mostly with sagebrush, junipers, bitterbrush, serviceberries, oakbrush and bigtooth maple with aspens in some drainages. As elevations increase, aspens, firs, spruces and pine trees dominate the north and east slopes with oakbrush, sagebrush and aspens on the higher west and south slopes. The highest terrain is in the southeastern corner and includes some alpine land above timberline, which is about 10,000 feet above sea level in most places. The alpine terrain features grassy meadows with many wildflowers and forbs, prostrate spruce and scattered low shrubs.

The public part of the unit can be reached from roads near Moffit Peak off the Mirror Lake Highway. The Forest Service charges a fee to drive on the highway. Only one short trail is designated for ATV use. Another road that can be used to access the unit is Chalk Creek near Coalville. Outside the forest almost all land is private. Few landowners give permission to hunters at no charge because outfitters compete with one another for hunting leases, and small ranches are often hunted heavily by members of the landowning family.

Hunters may camp almost anywhere on public land. Many hunters camp near Whitney Reservoir, which has primitive campgrounds with no services, and near Moffit Peak. There are several fee campgrounds along the highway near the Bear River and farther south along the Provo River and by a few of the lakes nearby.