I believe Boulder is partially in Garfield county so that is my bid. Honestly it is remote enough that you don't get a ton of people, and it so big that you can cover a lot of country. There are a ton of elk, and a fair percentage of them are mature bulls. I have hunted deer and elk up there and I would put in for the early rifle on there but I am in Logan going to school. So I put in for the Pahvant with my 1 in 1,000,000 odds of drawing because I am not going to have time to hunt elk next fall. But the Boulder is my top.
I am a little sketchy on county lines, but then I would go Beaver, Dutton, Panguitch Lake, and Pausaugunt repectively.
I mostly hunt deer on the Zion and Panguitch Lake with my bow, and getting a deer is easy, but there elk are a little tougher to find. I have been withing 50 yards of probably 10 bulls in my life on Panguitch during the bow hunt. But every fall during the cow elk hunt we see lots of bulls.
Go Boulder or Beaver if you still need to put in for the draw they are both hot for the early rifle, and you have never heard bulls fire off bugles like you will on the boulder.
I call them the choir on Boulder, because they sing all day up there during the rut.
Dillon
