Updated on September 7, 2026. Season dates, hunt numbers, leftover lists, and fire closures move. Confirm them in the Utah DWR 2026 Big Game Field Regulations Guidebook and the Utah Hunt Planner before you apply, pay, or drive west.
Pick the hunt class before you pick a mountain.
If you want a realistic chance this year, apply general-season buck deer, take the leftover list on July 7 if you miss, and accept a 15-to-20 buck-to-doe herd, a crowded Wasatch trailhead, or a long glass on a Fishlake plateau.
If you want older bucks on the Henry Mountains or the Paunsaugunt, apply limited-entry, spend years on bonus points, and do not treat a two-point general tag as the same hunt.
I have hunted whitetails for 23 years, starting with my dad in southern Missouri when I was 12. I still split time between a 65-acre lease in Pike County, Illinois and public dirt in the Missouri Ozarks. Utah is the trip I plan when I want a mule deer on public land I can actually walk, and I am willing to apply in March instead of buying a tag at a gas station. A Saturday on a Manti aspen bench and a Saturday on a Pike County bean field do not feel like the same sport. Do not pack a 20-yard treestand plan onto a 9,000-foot plateau and then blame Utah.
This page is the statewide trip plan. There is no live WorldDeer unit page for Ashley, Dixie, Fishlake, Manti-La Sal, or Uinta-Wasatch-Cache yet, so I am not inventing those URLs. The woods how-to lives on hunting national forest land and the public land deer hunting hub. Destination pages sit under Places. If you are still choosing a state, start at deer hunting by state and the deer hunting hub. Utah sits next to three other western draw hunts we already cover: Colorado, Nevada, and Wyoming.
Utah deer hunting facts
| Item | What to know | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Species | Rocky Mountain mule deer. White-tailed deer are rare and localized; there is no practical statewide whitetail hunt. Elk, pronghorn, moose, bison, and sheep are separate tags. | Utah DWR big game |
| License | Hunting or combination license plus a draw permit. Preference points for general-season buck deer. Bonus points for limited-entry. Leftovers, if any, go on sale July 7, 2026 — that is not a walk-up mule tag at a gas station. | DWR drawings explained |
| 2026 cost band | Resident adult hunting license $40, combo $44. Nonresident hunting $144, combo $190. Application $10 resident / $21 nonresident per species. General deer permit $46 resident / $599 nonresident if drawn. Limited-entry $94 / $1,070. Premium limited-entry (Henry Mtns, Paunsaugunt) $185 / $1,398. Plus 2.2% card fee. Nonresident big-game permit also acts as a one-year fishing license. | 2026 Big Game Application Guidebook |
| Seasons (last checked Sept. 7, 2026) | General archery Aug. 15–Sept. 11. Muzzleloader / restricted muzzleloader Sept. 23–Oct. 1. Early any-legal-weapon Oct. 7–11 on listed units. Any-legal-weapon / restricted rifle Oct. 17–25. Extended archery Sept. 12–Oct. 15 or Sept. 12–Nov. 30 by area. Hunt numbers override this stub. | 2026 Field Regulations Guidebook |
| Bag | One buck on a general-season or limited-entry buck permit. Antlerless is a separate June draw ($35 resident / $236 nonresident). Targeted doe hunts, not a leftover meat tag at the counter. | 2026 Field Regulations Guidebook |
| Sunday hunting | Yes on public land. On a Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit, Sunday does not count toward the operator’s guaranteed hunt days unless you both agree. | 2026 Field Regulations Guidebook |
| Baiting | Illegal statewide for hunting big game: you may not bait, hunt a baited area, or take an animal lured to or leaving bait. | DWR big game baiting |
| Dogs | No chasing or taking big game with dogs. One leashed blood-trailing dog may track a wounded animal within 72 hours, during legal shooting hours. | 2026 Field Regulations Guidebook |
| Hunter orange | Required on big game: a visible hat, shirt, jacket, coat, vest, or sweater that is primarily hunter orange. Archery and muzzleloader are exempt unless a centerfire rifle hunt is running in the same area. CWMU and once-in-a-lifetime hunts have their own exceptions. | 2026 Field Regulations Guidebook |
| CWD | Present. First found in 2002 near Vernal. As of Feb. 23, 2026: 435 mule deer and 11 elk positives. Mandatory samples in 2026: Castle Valley LE any-legal-weapon, Moab Valley LE any-legal-weapon, Ogden general any-legal-weapon. Symptoms: CWD deer symptoms. | DWR CWD page |
| Public land | Five national forests (Ashley, Dixie, Fishlake, Manti-La Sal, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache), BLM, Walk-in Access, WMAs (most waterfowl WMAs closed to big game), CWMUs. Parks and most tribal land are closed. No live WorldDeer forest child URLs yet. | Utah Hunt Planner |
| Official regs | 2026 Field Regulations PDF · DWR big game · apply at utahdraws.com | Utah Division of Wildlife Resources |
Species: it is a mule deer state
Utah is mule deer country. A few white-tailed deer live along some northern and eastern edges. That is not a hunt plan. If you grew up on Midwest timber, do not pack a 40-yard treestand setup onto a Fishlake aspen bench and expect a lane. Field marks and the hunt split live on mule deer vs whitetail deer. How this herd stacks against Colorado and Wyoming is on mule deer population by state. What they actually eat here — bitterbrush, mahogany, aspen, sage, and whatever green is left after a dry June — is the wild-diet story on what do deer eat, not a hosta page. Along the Wasatch Front those same deer will still walk a yard; start at do deer eat hostas if that is your problem.
A legal deer on a standard buck permit is a mule deer with antlers. Utah is not running a statewide 3-point or 4-point restriction on general-season paper. Antlerless opportunity is its own June drawing. Elk share the same forests. That is a different license. Do not confuse a Manti elk rumor with a deer plan.
2026 season stub (confirm before you hunt)
I am not pasting the proclamation. This is a 2026 stub, last checked September 7, 2026 against the Field Regulations Guidebook. If this table and DWR disagree, DWR wins. Your hunt number is the only date that matters.
| Weapon / hunt | 2026 dates | Where |
|---|---|---|
| General-season archery | Aug. 15–Sept. 11 | General-season units |
| Extended archery (ethics course required) | Sept. 12–Oct. 15 | Nine Mile / Green River Valley, Sanpete Valley, South Wasatch — either sex |
| Extended archery (ethics course required) | Sept. 12–Nov. 30 | Box Elder West Bear River, Herriman South Valley, Ogden, Uinta Basin, Utah Lake, Wasatch Front, West Cache — either sex |
| General-season muzzleloader / restricted muzzleloader | Sept. 23–Oct. 1 | General-season units. Scopes stronger than 1x are illegal on muzzleloaders for these hunts. |
| Early any legal weapon (rifle) | Oct. 7–11 | Box Elder, Chalk Creek, East Canyon, Fillmore, Fishlake, Kamas, Morgan-South Rich, Nine Mile, North Slope, Panguitch Lake, Pine Valley, Zion. Built so you can hunt deer and general elk in the same week. |
| Any legal weapon (rifle) / restricted rifle | Oct. 17–25 | General-season units. Restricted-weapons hunts sit on Beaver West, Boulder/Kaiparowits, and Cache; limited-entry restricted weapons on Thousand Lakes. |
| Late limited-entry muzzleloader | Oct. 28–Nov. 5 (same window as general muzzleloader elk — confirm the hunt number) | Limited-entry late muzzleloader on general-season units, as listed in the Hunt Planner |
Youth who draw a general any-legal-weapon or restricted-rifle deer permit may hunt archery, muzzleloader, and rifle on that unit. Twenty percent of general-season buck permits are allocated to youth. The Dedicated Hunter program is a three-year volunteer track with its own drawing, not a leftover tag. Mandatory harvest reporting is due within 30 days of the season ending, even if you did not kill a deer. I close it in the Utah Hunting and Fishing app when I have cell service. E-tagging is an option; paper still fails in a wet pack.
Summer 2026 fires already changed access. The Cottonwood Fire (Beaver), Babylon Fire (San Juan), and Widemouth 2 Fire (Fillmore) triggered hunt-relief options. Check DWR wildfires and 2026 hunting seasons the week you leave. A Forest Service road that was open in July can be gated in October.
The draw is the hunt: preference, bonus, leftover
Utah does not sell a general mule deer tag over the counter in March. You apply March 19–April 23, 2026 at utahdraws.com — that URL is new for 2026; the old site is gone. You need a valid hunting or combination license to apply. The application fee is not a tag. You are charged the permit fee only if you draw.
The step-by-step cart — hunter ed, license versus permit, and what a first-year nonresident can actually get — is on how to get a Utah deer hunting license.
Two point systems, and mixing them up is how people waste a decade:
- Preference points (code GDR) — general-season buck deer. They move you up the line. Residents with a couple of points often draw somewhere. Nonresidents wait longer on the same unit.
- Bonus points — limited-entry and premium limited-entry deer. They improve odds. They do not guarantee Henry Mountains or Paunsaugunt. Going into 2026 the bonus-point stack already ran into the 30s.
You can apply for limited-entry and general-season in the same year. If you draw limited-entry, the general application is voided and you still get a general preference point. If you draw general, you hunt general. Group applications average the points. That is how a high-point partner drags a low-point partner into a unit, and how a low-point partner can sink a high-point one.
The Utah Wildlife Board approved 86,625 general-season buck permits for 2026 (up 6,425 from 2025) and 1,708 limited-entry deer permits (up from 1,547). Utah has 31 general-season buck units. The statewide mule deer plan, in effect through 2030, manages most general units for 15–20 bucks per 100 does after the hunt, limited-entry for 25–30, and premium limited-entry for 40–45. More paper is more opportunity. It is also more trucks on the same two-track. Permit math is in the May 1, 2026 Wildlife Board news release.
Leftovers, if any, went on sale July 7, 2026 at 8 a.m. Mountain. That list included leftover general archery, muzzleloader, and the extended-archery-only permit (DB0008), plus a handful of limited-entry and CWMU leftovers. Buying a leftover limited-entry tag forfeits those bonus points and starts a five-year waiting period. Read the remaining and over-the-counter permits page before you click. If you are coming from out of state, read planning an out-of-state deer hunt before you book a cabin around the rifle opener.
CWD, baiting, Sundays, and dogs
Chronic wasting disease is not a rumor here. It showed up in a rifle buck near Vernal in 2002. It is now in northern, northeastern, central, and southeastern Utah. As of Feb. 23, 2026, DWR has 435 mule deer positives and 11 elk positives. If a deer looks sick, skinny, or oddly tame, use CWD deer symptoms and how to get your deer tested for CWD. Broader context is on deer diseases.
Mandatory 2026 samples: Castle Valley limited-entry any-legal-weapon, Moab Valley limited-entry any-legal-weapon, and Ogden general-season any-legal-weapon. Those hunters get a kit in the mail. Rotational rifle check stations this year include Beaver East and West, Book Cliffs, Diamond Mountain/Bonanza, East Canyon, Fillmore, Kamas, Manti, Morgan-South Rich, Nebo, Ogden, Oquirrh/Tintic, Panguitch Lake, Paunsaugunt, San Juan Abajo and Elk Ridge, Vernal/Bonanza, and Zion. Stop if you kill a buck there. Voluntary tests run $30 at the Utah Veterinary Diagnostic Lab in Logan or Spanish Fork. Import rules are strict: do not haul a whole carcass in from another CWD state. Gut piles stay at the kill site. Do not dump a spine in a new drainage.
Baiting big game to hunt it is illegal on public and private. Corn piles teach deer and teach other hunters where to sit. I hunt Utah without bait. Sunday hunting is legal on public land, unlike the old patchwork we still explain on the Pennsylvania state page. Dogs are not a deer-hunting method. If you run a tracking dog after a hit, it is one dog, on a leash, within 72 hours, during shooting hours. Read the current field regs. I wasted a morning in 2018 arguing with a guy who thought “my lab found it” was a legal method. It was not.
Public land that actually matters
Utah is majority public land. That number is why people apply. It is also why people get lost in country that looks empty from U.S. 6 and is still a 12-mile walk between the last aspen patch and the next spring. The useful question is which system matches the hunt you drew. The how-to for this kind of hunting is on hunting national forest land, how to hunt public land deer, and public land vs lease deer hunting. Destination pages live under Places. There is no live Ashley or Fishlake child URL. I am not inventing one.
- Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest — the Wasatch Front backdrop, the High Uintas Wilderness, Cache, Kamas, and the Logan/Kamas/Heber jump-offs. Highest hunter density near Salt Lake trailheads. Motors are illegal in the High Uintas Wilderness. Ute tribal land on the south slope of the Uintas is closed to non-members. Hunt 400 to 900 yards off the easy two-track, last 200 yards steep. MVUM first. Offices in South Jordan, Kamas, Heber, Logan, Ogden, Spanish Fork, and Evanston, Wyoming.
- Ashley National Forest — Vernal and Duchesne side of the Uintas, Flaming Gorge country, and the north Book Cliffs edge. This is the CWD-origin landscape. Vernal is the grocery and the sample drop. Winter range sits lower than the postcard basins. Do not hunt the campground loop on opening morning.
- Fishlake National Forest — high plateau mule deer: aspen, mixed conifer, and a lot of edge. Richfield and Loa are the bases. Early any-legal-weapon is open here in 2026. Glass the plateau rim at first light. The pretty basin you can see from the highway is already spoken for.
- Manti-La Sal National Forest — Manti Plateau out of Price, Ferron, and Ephraim; La Sal Mountains out of Moab. Big aspen, big pressure on the obvious roads, real deer one ridge over. La Sals look like Colorado from town. Hunt the ugly face, not the postcard trail.
- Dixie National Forest — southern plateaus around Cedar City, Panguitch, and Escalante. Paunsaugunt premium limited-entry sits in this country. Pine Valley is a general-season unit with early rifle in 2026. Bryce and Zion national parks are closed to hunting. Hunt the forest around them, not the visitor-center parking lot.
- BLM Utah — West Desert ranges, Book Cliffs, San Rafael, and most of the glassing country people mean when they say “Utah public land.” Lower densities, more solitude, water and shade pockets that actually concentrate deer. Download the district map. Orange posts are private. Checkerboard SITLA (school trust) parcels are not automatically open; verify before you walk in.
- Walk-in Access — 116 private properties and 49,597 acres enrolled in 2025, mostly northern Utah. Free annual authorization number required. Foot traffic unless the lease says otherwise. Each property has its own species and weapon list. This is not Kansas WIHA at scale, but it is real access. Sibling idea: Kansas walk-in access.
- Wildlife Management Areas — habitat first, hunting second. Most waterfowl WMAs are closed to big game. 2026 archery exceptions: Bicknell Bottoms, Browns Park, Clear Lake, Desert Lake, Locomotive Springs, and Redmond. Stewart Lake is open archery, muzzleloader, and any legal weapon. Adults 18+ need a license or a free digital WMA access permit in Davis, Salt Lake, Utah, and Weber counties (phasing statewide through 2028). Do not treat a pheasant WMA as a deer backup.
- Cooperative Wildlife Management Units — private-land cooperatives with a public draw share. You hunt the operator’s rules. Sunday may not count. Contact the operator before you apply. This is not a national forest hunt with a cabin.
National parks (Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, Arches) are closed. Great Salt Lake waterfowl areas are not deer country. If a Wasatch opening morning looks like a ski-resort parking lot, I do not drive to a made-up forest URL. I hunt a nastier access on the same unit, or I sit midweek, or I take the leftover list on a unit I can actually walk. Wyoming’s public-land mule deer page, Arizona, and Idaho are sibling hunts if you are building a multi-state year. They are not a same-weekend backup from Richfield. New Mexico is the other Four Corners draw if your Utah points are stuck.
One tactic that works on a plateau
I do not still-hunt pretty aspens all day and hope. I pick a glassing point I can reach in the dark, I am on the tripod at legal light, and I only leave that rim if I can explain why a deer would be in the next pocket. Fresh tracks in dust and wet-looking droppings beat last year’s rubs. When I time movement I check deer feeding times, then I let the unit change the food: high aspen and forbs in August, mahogany and oakbrush after pressure, sage and bitterbrush on the winter face after a storm.
Archery: bucks are still on summer patterns, often above the aspen, in bachelor groups. Find the last green pocket and the spring, then watch him bed. Stalks succeed when you use terrain and a rising thermal. They fail when you hurry. Muzzleloader and early rifle: two forces move deer — people and weather. Pressured bucks abandon the obvious basin for a steep, brushy pocket at mid-elevation that hunters walk past on the way to the top. Regular rifle (Oct. 17–25) is a short, crowded hunt. I hunt the downwind side of the push and I hunt Tuesday if I can take the day. Late muzzleloader and extended archery: a front that sticks snow on the Uintas or the Manti is the best hunting weather in this state. Deer come downhill. Be on a new glassing point the morning after the storm, not in the motel waiting for the road to “dry out.”
Wind is not optional. Thermals fall at first light and rise when the sun hits the rocks — same lesson as do deer move in the wind, just thinner air and a thermal that can flip by 8:15 a.m. I wasted money on $400 ozone scent control that made zero difference at 9,000 feet. Cover swallows a bad hit, and a wounded buck that goes into a mahogany pocket is a long day. I decide max range before I load. Bow: 40 yards only if I have already closed the distance and the deer is calm. Rifle: a backstop and a “no farther than that rock” line, even when the buck is at 280. Refresh shot placement and the after the shot hub before you leave Vernal. I gut-shot a doe in 2007, pushed her too early, and never found her. Mahogany hides a mule deer even better than Ozark oak.
The glassing system is the hunt. I carry 10×42 binoculars I can actually hold on a tripod, not a $40 gas-station pair, plus a spotting scope for the far face. Altitude is its own pressure. Fishlake and the High Uintas will punch a flatlander. I arrive two nights early and I do not plan a 4-mile pack-in on day one. The hunt I blew in 2019 was not a tag problem. It was a headache at 10,000 feet.
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Pressure: the draw is crowd control, not a private ranch
Utah’s crowd control is the application. That is why general-season paper is attainable for many residents and why Paunsaugunt is a years-long wait. It is not a reason to treat a drawn general tag like a wilderness exclusive. Opening morning of the Oct. 17 rifle hunt on a Wasatch-adjacent unit still has trucks on the obvious two-tracks. Hunt like public land: hunters cluster near roads, peak on the first two days, and quit when the walk gets steep or the snow gets deep. I hunt 400 to 900 yards off easy access, I hunt Tuesday through Thursday if I can take the days, and I hunt the morning after a front when the opening-weekend crowd has gone home.
Wasatch Front and Ogden units absorb the Salt Lake metro. Fishlake, Pine Valley, and the West Desert absorb people who are willing to drive. Henry Mountains and Paunsaugunt absorb people who waited. Restricted-weapons hunts on Beaver West, Boulder/Kaiparowits, and Cache exist because the Wildlife Board wanted less technology, not less hunting. Read the gear rules before you mount a 4x on a muzzleloader. Fire restrictions can kill a camp stove plan. Check forest alerts and the DWR wildfire page before you trust a ridge road in September.
Where to stay, and why the town matters
Pick a base for the unit you actually tagged. Drive time to the two-track, a grocery that is open after dark, fuel, ice, a processor, and a late checkout on opening morning matter more than a pretty lobby. Cabins and motels both work. Hunters do not all want hotels. I want a kitchen so I am not hunting for a 4 a.m. diner in Loa, and a place I can hang dusty clothes.
Vernal, UT — Ashley National Forest, north Book Cliffs, Diamond Mountain country. Real grocery, rooms, and the DWR Northeastern Region office. This is the default Uinta Basin base and the practical CWD-sample town.
Price, UT — Manti Plateau, Nine Mile, and the south Book Cliffs without committing to Moab tourist rates. Fuel and a processor matter more than the skyline. Opening-weekend motels fill.
Richfield, UT — Fishlake and the central plateaus. Closer to the two-tracks than Salt Lake. Cook in the cabin. Give yourself a night to acclimate.
Cedar City, UT — Dixie National Forest, Pine Valley, Panguitch Lake, and the Paunsaugunt jump-off. I-15 logistics, a real grocery, and a long way to the next town if you guessed wrong.
Moab, UT — La Sal Mountains and southeastern limited-entry (Moab Valley, Castle Valley). Airport-adjacent. Stay here if your unit is the La Sals, not because the downtown is busy. Mandatory CWD on those valley limited-entry rifle hunts.
Logan, UT — Cache and the north Wasatch. Grocery, campus-town rooms, and a shorter drive to West Cache extended archery than Salt Lake ever is. Do not base a Fishlake hunt here and commute.
Processors, ice, and getting a deer out
Call a processor before you shoot, especially for the Oct. 17 rifle opener. Wasatch Front and Uinta Basin shops book. Ask two questions: are you taking a CWD-unit deer, and when can I actually pick up meat. If they say “call us after you kill one,” keep calling down the list. On mandatory sample hunts, do not bone out the neck until the lymph nodes are out.
I process my own deer in the garage when I can, taught by my uncle who was a butcher. On a Utah road trip I still want a backup shop, a cooler plan, and a way to keep meat cold when the afternoon is 70 and the morning was 18. Ice is a town problem — buy it the night before in Vernal or Cedar City, not at a station that closed at 6. A plateau drag can be 800 yards of shale. A cheap plastic sled in the truck, about $40, has hauled more deer for me than any boutique pack frame. Quarter on the mountain if the pack is real. Utah requires tagging and evidence of sex; e-tag if you use the app. How to tag a deer is the mechanics. Field work is how to field dress a deer. Plateau mule deer run lighter than corn-fed Illinois deer, so I size coolers with how much meat from a deer.
If you hit a deer on I-15 or U.S. 40 on the drive in, that is a different problem — use what to do if you hit a deer and the safety hub, not a hunting tag. Statewide collision context is on deer collisions by state.
Wildlife of this hunt, and the weather-dies plan
Elk own the same aspen the deer do — separate tag. Pronghorn own the valleys you drive through to reach the plateau; comparison on deer vs pronghorn if that URL is the question you actually have. Moose are a once-in-a-lifetime draw in the north. Black bears are on the forest. Hang meat like you are in bear country, because you are. If the weather dies, I hike a named trail on the same forest, eat in town, and hunt the evening glass. I do not invent a second “things to do” URL. Zion and Bryce are closed to hunting; they are the weather-dies drive if you already tagged Pine Valley or Paunsaugunt country, not a secret deer hunt.
FAQ
Do I need a draw tag to hunt deer in Utah?
Yes for a buck. General-season and limited-entry both go through the March 19–April 23 drawing at utahdraws.com. Leftovers, if any, went on sale July 7, 2026. That leftover list is not a year-round OTC mule tag. Confirm on the DWR drawings page, last checked September 7, 2026.
When is Utah rifle deer season?
Early any-legal-weapon is Oct. 7–11, 2026 on 12 listed general units. The main any-legal-weapon hunt is Oct. 17–25. Archery is Aug. 15–Sept. 11. Muzzleloader is Sept. 23–Oct. 1. Your hunt number is the only calendar that matters.
Can I bait deer in Utah?
No. Hunting big game over bait is illegal statewide, including taking an animal that has been lured to a baited area. Details: DWR baiting.
Can I hunt Sunday?
Yes on public land. On a CWMU, Sunday does not automatically count as one of your guaranteed days.
Where should a first-timer go?
If you need to hunt this year, apply general-season archery or muzzleloader on a unit you can actually walk, then watch the July leftover list. If you drew Fishlake or Pine Valley, hunt with the glassing plan above and do not expect Illinois numbers. Premium limited-entry is a points project, not a first Utah trip. Read the national forest guide before you camp on a two-track.
Do I have to wear hunter orange?
Yes on most big-game hunts: a visible hunter-orange hat, shirt, jacket, coat, vest, or sweater. Archery and muzzleloader are exempt unless a rifle hunt is open in the same area. I still wear blaze on a plateau when other people are glassing the same rim.
What about CWD and eating the deer?
Have it tested if you hunt a listed unit, and do not eat a sick-looking animal. Mandatory kits go to Castle Valley LE, Moab Valley LE, and Ogden general rifle hunters in 2026. Testing is on get your deer tested; symptoms are on CWD deer symptoms.
Official regs, then go hunt
Primary source: Utah DWR 2026 Big Game Field Regulations Guidebook. Application guidebook: 2026 Big Game Application Guidebook. Maps and biologist notes: hunt.utah.gov. Apply: utahdraws.com. Buy a license: wildlifelicense.utah.gov. CWD: wildlife.utah.gov/diseases/cwd. Leftovers: remaining permits. Harvest report: wildlife.utah.gov/harvest. Draw odds: drawing odds and points reports.
I am not a guide. I am a public-land hunter who has eaten tag soup on a plateau. If you pick the hunt class on purpose, hunt fresh sign off the easy access, and stay near a grocery and a processor, Utah will give you a shot.
Updated on September 7, 2026.
