Beautiful Places in the Western US You’ve Hunted

[tomengineer]

Not asking for units or success rates or antler scores. I’m asking the general locations you’ve hunted in the west that have been a perfect place and/or time to watch the sun rise or set or spend a week with good friends. Each state has its own flavor. I’m from the east so I can’t even scout from the highway.

 

[rideold]

The Grand Mesa.

 

[MaddH]

Kaibab on the North rim of the Grand Canyon watching the lightning storms roll in. Amazing

 

[madtom]

Wyoming is super duper ugly. We don’t even have sunsets.

 

[Deleted member 20812]

The Rubies in Nevada is spectacular.

 

[SFC B]

I would say that nowhere I have hunted in the West failed to be beautiful....From my first ever big game animal (WTD) in the Paloose with wolves howling in the evening, to my first elk in the Flat Tops (which is also our yearly camp), to pronghorn and p-dogs in dusty WY, to geese on the flats of NE CO to ducks in the misty sloughs off the North Platte in Nebraska........beauty EVERYWHERE

 

[Nick87]

The Gila.

 

[FranklinME]

Shot my antelope in Wyoming with the Shoshone National Forest rising behind me in a snow storm last October I will never forget it!

 

[Bigjay73]

Colorado alpine areas around the divide are pretty hard to beat

 

[hank4elk]

So many. The Irish Hills ,Big Sur,the Sierras in CA. The red rock country of UT. Vancuver Is, Can. MT in the 70's.
NM ,the Sangre de Christo Mtns, near the Valles Caldera in the Jemez, the Sawtooths, the greater Gila area.
Home.

 

[Western Traveler1]

Not to repeat a couple that hank4elk mentioned, two more that immediately come to mind, the Bob and the Big Horns. There are certainly others...

 

[utah400elk]

That’s a good question...

Top 5 would be:

The most beautiful place would have to be the Bears Ears in Utah San Juan elk ridge unit.

I also love the landscape in north AZ canyon county (12bw and 12ae are the two i have hunted).

I went on a horse back elk hunt in the Unitas in Utah just below Kings Peak were we didn’t see another person for for 2 weeks and it was picture perfect high alpine country.

Unit 9 in AZ holds a special place in my mind. Different country but very beautiful.

I have spent more time in the three corners area of UT, CO, and WY than anywhere. The colors from the red rocks around the gorge are amazing and the green is an absolutely beautiful river.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Chugach

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Not asking for units or success rates or antler scores. I’m asking the general locations you’ve hunted in the west that have been a perfect place and/or time to watch the sun rise or set or spend a week with good friends. Each state has its own flavor. I’m from the east so I can’t even scout from the highway.

This is a fun thread as well... https://www.hunttalk.com/threads/wilderness-area-montage.288591/

 

[D4570]

Most recent

 

[bigsky2]

The Kaibab Plateau

 

[runningmt]

I am very lucky to call SW Montana my home, the mountains, valleys, plains, and rivers offer some of the most photogenic landscapes in the world.

My favorite however is the badlands of Western North Dakota and Eastern Montana. For an easy access taste of these rugged and beautiful lands, check out Makoshika State Park in Glendive, MT.

Breathtaking

 

[Europe]

Brooks Range

Mackenzie mtns

Grand Mesa

White Mtns

we didn't hunt in the Grand Canyon, but the week long rafting trip was a trip in the western U.S. I will always cherish the memory of-----

 

[tomengineer]

Thanks for all the replies. I’m going to have to Google a lot of these.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Watching the sunset shadows play across the Missouri River Breaks is hard to beat.

Afognak was pretty stunning to look at, and the flights through the entire Kodiak archipelago were breathtaking.

Some of the upper Rogue River country in Oregon is pretty picturesque too.