{"product_id":"2025-utah-hunt-map-henry-mountains-unit-map-the-xperience-map","title":"2025 Utah Hunt Map - Henry Mountains Unit","description":"2025 Utah Hunt Map – Henry Mountains Unit (Avenza GPS Map)\r\n\r\nOur mission was simple—create highly detailed, GPS-accurate maps for Utah’s premier big-game hunt units. Each map includes 3D hillshade, contour lines, public and private land boundaries, major roads, hydrology, and essential terrain features. Lose yourself in one of Utah’s last true wild frontiers—yet NEVER GET LOST.\r\n\r\nThe Henry Mountains Unit in southern Utah is legendary. Known worldwide for producing some of the largest and most iconic bison and mule deer on the planet, the Henrys rise abruptly from the red-rock desert like a remote island of rugged wilderness. This vast and isolated unit features steep volcanic peaks, expansive sagebrush benches, broken timber, aspen groves, deep canyons, rolling foothills, rocky ridgelines, and high alpine plateaus. Ranging from desert floor to nearly 11,000 feet, the Henry Mountains offer some of the most diverse and challenging big-game habitat in the West.\r\n\r\nMule deer in the Henrys are famous for their genetics, feeding and bedding across a wide variety of terrain. Early-season bucks often hold high, bedding in aspen pockets, volcanic rockslides, north-facing slopes, and timbered benches on Mount Ellen and Mount Pennell. They move to feed at dawn and dusk across open ridgelines, sagebrush basins, and alpine meadows. As pressure increases or weather changes, deer shift into deeper canyons, remote sagebrush benches, or heavy cover on mid-elevation slopes where human access is limited.\r\n\r\nThe Henry Mountains are also home to one of the last free-ranging, genetically pure bison herds in North America. Bison roam widely across the unit—using sagebrush flats, grassy benches, canyon bottoms, and high plateaus. They depend heavily on perennial springs, seeps, and the scattered water sources across the desert foothills. Hunters must be prepared for long stalks, unpredictable terrain, and long pack-outs in extremely remote country.\r\n\r\nElk occupy the more timbered areas of the Henrys, using dark north-facing slopes, thick conifer pockets, and isolated basins for bedding, while feeding in meadows and open sagebrush benches. During the rut, bulls often bugle from deep in the canyons, timber edges, or rugged volcanic slopes.\r\n\r\nHunting the Henry Mountains requires patience, endurance, and strong glassing skills. The unit’s vast basins and open slopes allow for long-range observation, with hunters often spending hours behind optics identifying movement along ridgelines and canyon edges. Spot-and-stalk strategies are highly effective but must be planned carefully—wind patterns swirl unpredictably around the volcanic peaks, and the rugged terrain can make distance estimation challenging. In thicker brush or timber, slow still-hunting and ambush setups near saddles, benches, water sources, and canyon mouths can be extremely productive.\r\n\r\nLandownership across the Henry Mountains consists primarily of BLM land, extensive desert public land, State Trust parcels, and small pockets of private holdings. Access is generally good, but roads vary widely—from well-traveled gravel routes to rough 4x4 tracks that become impassable during storms. Accurate navigation is essential to avoid dead-end roads, stay on legal ground, and plan efficient hunting routes across the vast unit. Our map clearly displays all landownership boundaries, water sources, trail networks, access points, and the major terrain features that dictate big-game movement across the Henrys.\r\n\r\nHunters rely on our maps because they provide precise, GPS-accurate tracking in the Avenza app even in the most remote desert and high-mountain basins where cell service is nonexistent. The 3D hillshade layer highlights ridges, benches, coulees, volcanic cliffs, canyon heads, and subtle elevation changes—allowing hunters to quickly read terrain and anticipate animal movement. The clean map layout avoids clutter while delivering every essential navigation tool. Confidently mark glassing points, springs, wallows, bedding pockets, stalk routes, pack-out paths, and harvest locations.\r\n\r\nFor best field performance, switch your phone to airplane mode to preserve battery life and always carry a backup power supply—the Henry Mountains are remote and unforgiving. Download your map before entering the unit, as reception is extremely limited across the mountain range. Pre-marking ridge systems, water sources, access routes, and high-value glassing basins will dramatically increase your efficiency and success once the hunt begins.","brand":"Map the Xperience","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45695238832284,"sku":"1719433","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7850\/5884\/files\/map-the-xperience-2025-utah-hunt-map-henry-mountains-unit-map-1719433-preview-0_5b3ba51d-3224-4f35-977f-4e089f6e494a.jpg?v=1765298036","url":"https:\/\/store.avenza.com\/products\/2025-utah-hunt-map-henry-mountains-unit-map-the-xperience-map","provider":"Avenza Maps","version":"1.0","type":"link"}