Colorado Hunt Unit Guides
253 detailed unit guides for Colorado covering bighorn sheep, black bear, elk, moose, mountain goat, mule deer, pronghorn. Each guide includes draw odds, success rates, tactics, and logistics for all huntable species.
Unit 1 — Browns Park
Unit 1 sits in the far northwest corner of Colorado in Moffat County, encompassing the Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge and Cold Springs Mountain....
Unit 2 — Douglas Mountain
Unit 2 covers the Douglas Mountain area north of Dinosaur National Monument in Moffat County, with roughly 68% public land. The Sand Wash Basin, Yampa...
Unit 3 — Little Snake
Unit 3 covers the Little Snake River valley along the Wyoming border in Moffat County, with high public land access on BLM. The arid sagebrush hills, ...
Unit 4 — Gore Pass
Unit 4 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with applic...
Unit 5 — Hahns Peak
Unit 5 stretches north of Steamboat Springs to the Wyoming border in Routt County. The open sage parks, mountain meadows, and ranchlands around Hahns ...
Unit 6 — Illinois River / Rand
Unit 6 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with applic...
Unit 7 — Poudre Canyon / Cameron Pass
Unit 7 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with applic...
Unit 8
Colorado GMU 8 is a pronghorn unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Pronghorn tags are issued through the CPW preference-point draw. We u...
Unit 9
Colorado Mule Deer Unit 9 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually via th...
Unit 10 — Blue Mountain
Unit 10 spans the Blue Mountain area in Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties against the Utah border, with 75% public land. The Green and Yampa River corrid...
Unit 11 — White River NF / New Castle
Unit 11 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with appli...
Unit 12 — White River
Unit 12 sits roughly 20 miles north of Meeker in Routt, Moffat, and Rio Blanco Counties, and is home to the world-famous White River elk herd. With ab...
Unit 13 — Jackson
Unit 13 covers North Park country in Jackson County with willow bottoms, aspen parks, and lodgepole timber across the Routt and Medicine Bow-Routt Nat...
Unit 14
Colorado Game Management Unit 14 offers a elk hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW lim...
Unit 15 — Gore Pass
Unit 15 lies between Steamboat Springs and State Bridge on the west side of the Gore Range in Routt and Grand Counties, with 80% public land. The Rout...
Unit 16 — Steamboat Springs / Elk River
GMU 16 covers the Elk River valley and timbered ridges northwest of Steamboat Springs in Routt County — one of Colorado's moose strongholds. The willo...
Unit 17
Colorado Game Management Unit 17 offers a moose hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW l...
Unit 18 — Troublesome Creek
Unit 18 covers Grand County from the Rabbit Ears Mountains south to the Colorado River, including the Never Summer Wilderness fringe. The mountain par...
Unit 19
Unit 19 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 20 — Red Table / Fryingpan
Unit 20 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with appli...
Unit 21
Unit 21 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 22
Unit 22 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 23 — Piceance Basin / Douglas Creek
Unit 23 sits in Rio Blanco County in the heart of the Piceance Basin — historically one of Colorado's most famous mule deer strongholds. Pinyon-junipe...
Unit 25
Unit 25 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 26
Colorado GMU 26 is a limited-draw elk unit on the Western Slope that we target through the CPW preference-point system. We pair the CPW Hunting Atlas ...
Unit 27 — Flat Tops / Yampa Valley South
GMU 27 spans the southern edge of the Flat Tops Wilderness and the sagebrush valleys of Routt County in northwest Colorado. The unit's mix of high-ele...
Unit 28
Unit 28 in Colorado offers elk hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. Hunters...
Unit 29 — Gore Range East
Unit 29 covers the east flank of the Gore Range near Kremmling in Grand County. Arapaho and Routt national forests create the public-land base, with s...
Unit 30
Colorado Game Management Unit 30 offers a mule deer hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the C...
Unit 31
Colorado Mule Deer Unit 31 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw. All mule deer tags in Colorado are limit...
Unit 33 — Glenwood Springs
Unit 33 sits between New Castle and Silt along the I-70 corridor in Garfield County, with about 60% public land. The Snowmass Creek and Frying Pan Riv...
Unit 34
Colorado Game Management Unit 34 offers a mule deer hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the C...
Unit 35 — Wolcott
Unit 35 covers Eagle County between Wolcott and the Colorado River to the north, bounded by CO 131 to the east and the Eagle River to the south. With ...
Unit 36 — 36
Unit 36 is a northern Colorado moose unit in the Rawah Wilderness and surrounding Medicine Bow-Routt NF country. We rank Unit 36 among the most depend...
Unit 37
Colorado Moose Unit 37 is a limited-entry moose unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Moose is o...
Unit 38 — Rabbit Ears Pass / Routt County
GMU 38 covers the Rabbit Ears Pass area and the rolling timber country of Routt County between Steamboat Springs and the Continental Divide. The unit'...
Unit 39
Unit 39 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 40 — Glade Park
Unit 40 stretches along the Utah border in Mesa County, encompassing the high-desert Glade Park area, Piñon Mesa, and the Uncompahgre NF fringe. With ...
Unit 41 — Montrose / Ridgway
Unit 41 is a Colorado mule deer hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with...
Unit 42 — Vail / Tenmile
Unit 42 covers the high country between Vail and Frisco, straddling the Tenmile Range and Gore Range foothills. White River National Forest dominates,...
Unit 43
Unit 43 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 44 — Monarch Pass / Poncha
Unit 44 is a Colorado mule deer hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with...
Unit 45
Unit 45 sits in the rugged mountains of Grand and Eagle counties, covering high-elevation spruce-fir drainages and aspen parks below the Eagle's Nest ...
Unit 46 — Lost Creek
Unit 46 covers Clear Creek, Park, and Jefferson Counties, including the Pike NF and Lost Creek Wilderness area. The mountain parks and open meadows at...
Unit 47
Colorado GMU 47 is a moose unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Moose tags are once-in-a-lifetime limited-draw through the CPW preferenc...
Unit 48 — Leadville
Unit 48 covers Lake and Chaffee Counties around Leadville, including Mount Elbert (14,433 feet) and the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River. The ...
Unit 49 — Salida
Unit 49 covers Lake, Park, and Chaffee Counties around Salida and Buena Vista, including the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness area. The mountain parks and sag...
Unit 50 — Telluride / Lizard Head
Unit 50 is a Colorado mule deer hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with...
Unit 51
Unit 51 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 52
Unit 52 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 53
Unit 53 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 54 — Gunnison Basin
Unit 54 encompasses the Gunnison Basin and West Elk Wilderness, with 50% public land. Hunting pressure stays low-to-moderate thanks to the unit's size...
Unit 55 — Conejos / Antonito
Unit 55 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with appli...
Unit 56
Colorado Game Management Unit 56 offers a elk hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW lim...
Unit 57 — Kit Carson
Unit 57 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with appli...
Unit 58 — West Elk / Black Canyon
GMU 58 covers country west of Gunnison through the West Elk Wilderness and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison fringe in Gunnison and Montrose counties. ...
Unit 59 — Sangre de Cristo
Unit 59 covers Saguache, Custer, and Fremont Counties on the east side of the San Luis Valley, along the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The sage flats, g...
Unit 60 — Gunnison South / Cochetopa
GMU 60 lies south of Gunnison in the Cochetopa Hills country, within the broader Gunnison Basin mule deer management region that CPW considers one of ...
Unit 61 — Uncompahgre
Unit 61 covers the Uncompahgre Plateau and Sneffels Range, with 78% public land and above-average trophy quality. The combination of high mesa oakbrus...
Unit 62 — Mesa Verde
Unit 62 is a Colorado mule deer hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with...
Unit 63
Colorado Mule Deer Unit 63 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually via t...
Unit 64
Unit 64 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 65 — Gunnison Basin
Unit 65 covers the Gunnison Basin in central Colorado, including portions of the Gunnison National Forest and the valley around Crested Butte. Mule de...
Unit 66 — San Luis Peak / Lake City
Unit 66 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with appli...
Unit 67 — Sangre de Cristo / Great Sand Dunes
Unit 67 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with appli...
Unit 68 — La Garita
Unit 68 covers Saguache County in the Rio Grande NF, including the La Garita Wilderness and the mountains west of the town of Saguache. The mountain p...
Unit 69 — Spanish Peaks / Cuchara
Unit 69 is a Colorado mule deer hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with...
Unit 70 — Telluride
Unit 70 spans Dolores, Montrose, and San Miguel Counties in the heart of the San Juan Mountains, encompassing the Lizard Head Wilderness and the flank...
Unit 71 — Gold Belt / Phantom Canyon
Unit 71 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with appli...
Unit 72
Unit 72 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 73
Colorado GMU 73 offers an elk hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Limited-draw elk tags are allocated through CPW's pref...
Unit 74 — Silverton
Unit 74 covers La Plata and San Juan Counties around Silverton and north of Durango in the heart of the San Juan Mountains. With 75% public land on th...
Unit 75 — Vallecito
Unit 75 stretches from Durango east to Wolf Creek Pass across La Plata and San Juan Counties, with 70% public land on the San Juan and Rio Grande NFs....
Unit 76 — San Juan
Unit 76 sprawls across Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, and San Juan Counties along the Continental Divide in the heart of the San Juan Mounta...
Unit 77 — Weminuche
Unit 77 encompasses the Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado's largest wilderness area, with 90% public land. This is a trophy-caliber unit with low hunting...
Unit 79
Unit 79 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 80 — Craig / Hayden
Unit 80 is a Colorado elk hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with appli...
Unit 81 — San Luis Valley
Unit 81 covers the San Luis Valley floor across Alamosa, Archuleta, Conejos, and Rio Grande Counties, from the New Mexico border north through the wid...
Unit 82 — Great Sand Dunes
Unit 82 straddles Alamosa and Saguache Counties on the east side of the San Luis Valley, encompassing the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and Great Sand Du...
Unit 83
Colorado Elk Unit 83 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually via the CPW...
Unit 84
Colorado Game Management Unit 84 offers a elk hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW lim...
Unit 85
Unit 85 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 86
Colorado Game Management Unit 86 offers a elk hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW lim...
Unit 87 — Rawlins / Baggs
Unit 87 is a Colorado pronghorn hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw, with...
Unit 88
Unit 88 in Colorado offers pronghorn hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. H...
Unit 89 — Douglas Creek / White River Sagebrush
GMU 89 sits in the sagebrush and saltbush flats of Rio Blanco County in northwest Colorado, stretching across the Douglas Creek drainage east of the U...
Unit 90
Colorado GMU 90 offers a pronghorn hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are issued through CPW's preference-point dr...
Unit 91 — Rangely / Canyon Pintado
GMU 91 covers the canyon and mesa country of northwest Rio Blanco County around Rangely, including the Canyon Pintado National Historic District. The ...
Unit 92 — Karval
Unit 92 covers Lincoln County plains around Karval and the Rush Creek drainage. Shortgrass prairie, CRP, and piñon-juniper breaks along shallow canyon...
Unit 93 — Elbert / Lincoln Plains
Unit 93 covers Elbert and Lincoln counties on the east-central Colorado plains. CRP, wheat, and sandsage country plus the Big Sandy Creek drainage sup...
Unit 94 — Sterling / South Platte
Unit 94 covers farmland, river bottoms, and sand-hill country in Logan and Washington counties along the South Platte River. Mule deer use cottonwood ...
Unit 95 — Yuma / Phillips Plains
Unit 95 sits on Colorado's northeastern plains in Yuma and Phillips counties, rolling shortgrass prairie broken by irrigated cropland, sand hills, and...
Unit 96
Colorado Game Management Unit 96 offers a mule deer hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the C...
Unit 97
Colorado GMU 97 offers a mule deer hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are issued through CPW's preference-point dr...
Unit 98 — Grand Junction / Book Cliffs
GMU 98 covers the Book Cliffs north of Grand Junction in Mesa County — a dramatic landscape of sandstone canyon rims, pinyon-juniper mesa tops, and de...
Unit 99
Colorado Game Management Unit 99 offers a pronghorn hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the C...
Unit 100 — Julesburg / Sedgwick Plains
Unit 100 covers the far northeast corner of Colorado in Sedgwick and Phillips counties near Julesburg. Shortgrass prairie, CRP, and dryland crop field...
Unit 101 — Phillips / Sedgwick Plains
Unit 101 covers the northeast Colorado plains in Phillips and Sedgwick counties. Shelterbelts, CRP, irrigated corn, and the Frenchman and North Fork R...
Unit 102 — Yuma / Republican River
Unit 102 sits on Colorado's far-northeast plains in Yuma and Washington counties, with shortgrass prairie, sand hills, and the Republican River draina...
Unit 103 — Northeast Plains / Pawnee
GMU 103 is a northeast Colorado plains mule deer unit near the Pawnee National Grassland. CPW lists it as a high-tag hunt, with roughly 914 licenses i...
Unit 104
Unit 104 in Colorado offers mule deer hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. ...
Unit 105
Unit 105 in Colorado offers pronghorn hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. ...
Unit 106 — Lincoln / Elbert Plains
Unit 106 covers rolling shortgrass prairie in Lincoln and Elbert counties on Colorado's eastern plains. Pronghorn use the sage-grass interface with dr...
Unit 107 — Hugo / Kiowa Plains
Unit 107 spans Lincoln and Kiowa counties on the shortgrass plains east of Colorado Springs. Big open country, CRP, and scattered ag make this a solid...
Unit 109
Colorado Game Management Unit 109 offers a mule deer hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the ...
Unit 110
Colorado Pronghorn Unit 110 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually via ...
Unit 111 — Kiowa / Arapahoe County Plains
GMU 111 covers the shortgrass prairie of Arapahoe and Kiowa counties on Colorado's eastern plains, east of the Denver metro area. Pronghorn population...
Unit 112
Colorado Game Management Unit 112 offers a pronghorn hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the ...
Unit 113
Unit 113 in southwest Colorado's Dolores County encompasses the Mesa Verde area and surrounding pinyon-juniper mesas, offering mule deer hunting in cl...
Unit 114
Colorado GMU 114 is a mule deer draw unit we apply for through the CPW preference-point system. We use CPW's Big Game Statistics, Hunting Atlas, and c...
Unit 116 — Hartsel / South Park Basin
GMU 116 occupies the wide-open South Park basin in Park County, centered around Hartsel at roughly 9,000 feet elevation. The high-altitude sagebrush a...
Unit 117
Unit 117 occupies the Conejos and Archuleta county mountain terrain in the southern San Juan range, featuring dense spruce-fir forest, aspen parks, an...
Unit 118 — Kit Carson / Flagler
Unit 118 covers Kit Carson and Cheyenne counties on the east-central Colorado plains. Shortgrass prairie, wheat stubble, CRP, and sandsage country hol...
Unit 119 — Pueblo / El Paso County Plains
GMU 119 spans the rolling shortgrass plains of Pueblo and El Paso counties in south-central Colorado, south of the Arkansas River valley. Pronghorn po...
Unit 120
Colorado Pronghorn Unit 120 is a limited-entry pronghorn unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system....
Unit 122
Colorado Mule Deer Unit 122 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually via ...
Unit 123 — Cheyenne Wells
Unit 123 covers Kit Carson and Cheyenne county plains anchored around Cheyenne Wells. Shortgrass prairie, wheat stubble, and CRP hold a strong prongho...
Unit 124 — Pueblo / Arkansas River
Unit 124 sits in Pueblo and Otero counties on the southeastern Colorado plains, covering shortgrass prairie along the Arkansas River corridor. Prongho...
Unit 125 — 125
Unit 125 is a northeastern plains GMU in Colorado with cedar breaks, CRP blocks, and irrigated ag. We treat Unit 125 as a realistic annual-draw mule d...
Unit 126 — La Junta / Arkansas River Plains
GMU 126 covers southeast Colorado plains south of La Junta along the lower Arkansas River drainage. CPW lists it as a moderate-tag plains mule deer un...
Unit 127
Unit 127 covers Colorado's eastern plains — shortgrass prairie and agricultural land and holds a resident mule deer population shaped by the terrain a...
Unit 128 — Canon City / Wet Mountain Valley
GMU 128 covers the Wet Mountain Valley and foothills of Fremont and Custer counties in south-central Colorado, east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains....
Unit 129
Colorado Game Management Unit 129 offers a mule deer hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the ...
Unit 130 — Baca / Southeast Pronghorn
GMU 130 sits in the far southeast corner of Colorado near Baca County and the Oklahoma border. CPW lists it as a quality southeast plains pronghorn un...
Unit 131 — Holly
Unit 131 covers portions of Prowers County in far eastern Colorado around Holly and the Arkansas River corridor. The unit mixes short-grass prairie, C...
Unit 132 — 132
Unit 132 is a southeastern Colorado plains pronghorn GMU with shortgrass prairie, CRP, and ag interfaces. We like Unit 132 for hunters who want a real...
Unit 133 — Wet Mountains East
Unit 133 covers rolling plains country east of Trinidad in Las Animas County. Shortgrass prairie, scattered piñon breaks, and agricultural edge habita...
Unit 134
Colorado GMU 134 offers a pronghorn hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are issued through CPW's preference-point d...
Unit 135
Colorado Pronghorn Unit 135 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually via ...
Unit 136 — Lamar / Arkansas Plains
Unit 136 covers the Arkansas River plains around Lamar in Prowers and Baca counties. Shortgrass prairie, sand sage, and agricultural fields hold a sol...
Unit 137 — San Luis Valley / Alamosa
GMU 137 covers a portion of the San Luis Valley in Alamosa and Costilla counties, one of Colorado's largest high-altitude basins. The wide-open sage a...
Unit 138
Unit 138 covers Colorado's eastern plains — shortgrass prairie and agricultural land and holds a resident mule deer population shaped by the terrain a...
Unit 139
Colorado Game Management Unit 139 offers a mule deer hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the ...
Unit 140 — Baca County South
Unit 140 covers southeastern Baca County along the Oklahoma and New Mexico borders, flat short-grass prairie and CRP fields with scattered Comanche Na...
Unit 141
Unit 141 covers the wide open ranch and sage country of Costilla County in southern Colorado near the New Mexico border. Three-year data shows 139 app...
Unit 142 — Comanche Grassland / Southeast Plains
Unit 142 sits on Colorado's southeast plains in Baca and Las Animas counties, covering country near the Comanche National Grassland. The shortgrass pr...
Unit 143
Unit 143 covers Colorado's eastern plains — shortgrass prairie and agricultural land and holds a resident mule deer population shaped by the terrain a...
Unit 144
Unit 144 covers Colorado's eastern plains — shortgrass prairie and agricultural land and holds a resident mule deer population shaped by the terrain a...
Unit 145
Unit 145 covers Colorado's eastern plains — shortgrass prairie and agricultural land and holds a resident mule deer population shaped by the terrain a...
Unit 147
Unit 147 occupies northwestern Colorado's Rio Blanco County adjacent to the White River National Forest, featuring the sagebrush plateaus and canyon t...
Unit 161
Colorado Game Management Unit 161 offers a pronghorn hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the ...
Unit 171
Colorado Moose Unit 171 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually via the ...
Unit 181 — 181
Unit 181 sits in southeast Colorado's transition from shortgrass plains to pinyon-juniper foothills. We treat Unit 181 as a workable limited elk draw ...
Unit 191
Colorado Game Management Unit 191 offers an elk hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW l...
Unit 201 — Maybell
Unit 201 covers a vast stretch of Moffat County sagebrush country near Maybell, with 85%+ public land on BLM. The Green River corridor, Yampa River va...
Unit 211 — Piceance Creek / Rifle
Unit 211 is a limited-quota subunit on the Piceance Basin east of Rifle in Garfield and Rio Blanco counties. Pinyon-juniper, sagebrush, and aspen pock...
Unit 214 — Pagosa Springs / San Juan Foothills
GMU 214 covers the foothills and mid-elevation terrain south of Pagosa Springs in Archuleta County, bordering the San Juan Mountains to the north. The...
Unit 231
Colorado Game Management Unit 231 is one of our elk draw targets in the CPW limited-license system. We treat this unit as a preference-point build: ta...
Unit 301 — North Park
Unit 301 is part of the Jackson County North Park complex, covering rolling sage parks surrounded by Medicine Bow and Routt National Forest timber. Th...
Unit 361
Unit 361 sits along the South Platte River corridor in Park and Jefferson counties, offering one of Colorado's few moose hunting opportunities on the ...
Unit 371 — White River
Unit 371 is part of the White River DAU in Rio Blanco and Garfield Counties, home to one of North America's largest elk herds. The unit's mix of oak b...
Unit 391
Colorado Game Management Unit 391 offers a mule deer hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the ...
Unit 411
Colorado GMU 411 offers an elk hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Limited-draw elk tags are allocated through CPW's pre...
Unit 421 — Grand Mesa
Unit 421 covers the Grand Mesa area in Mesa and Garfield Counties near Collbran, with 75% public land on the Grand Mesa NF. This massive flat-topped m...
Unit 441 — 441
Unit 441 is a limited-tag elk unit in the central Colorado mountains, covering higher-quality mixed timber and parks. We treat Unit 441 as a mid-tier ...
Unit 444
Colorado Mule Deer Unit 444 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually via ...
Unit 461
Colorado GMU 461 is an elk limited-draw unit in the CPW preference-point system. We pair Big Game Statistics, the Hunting Atlas, and the current broch...
Unit 471 — Roaring Fork
Unit 471 covers the Roaring Fork River drainage in Pitkin and Eagle Counties, with 70% public land on the White River NF. The terrain between Aspen an...
Unit 481
Colorado Game Management Unit 481 offers a elk hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW li...
Unit 500
Unit 500 in Colorado offers elk hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. Hunter...
Unit 501 — South Park
Unit 501 covers the South Park basin and surrounding mountains in Park and Jefferson Counties, with 60% public land on Pike NF and BLM. The Tarryall M...
Unit 511 — Sangre de Cristo South
Unit 511 sits on the east flank of the Sangre de Cristo range in Custer and Huerfano counties, running from Music Pass south to the Spanish Peaks. Ste...
Unit 512 — 512
Unit 512 is a high-quality limited mule deer GMU in central Colorado. Tag quotas are tight, point requirements are serious, and bull age class is top-...
Unit 521 — Paonia
Unit 521 sits in Gunnison and Delta Counties near Paonia and Hotchkiss, with 70% public land on the Gunnison NF. The Raggeds Wilderness, North Fork of...
Unit 551 — Cochetopa
Unit 551 straddles Gunnison and Saguache Counties in the Cochetopa Hills and the south end of the Sawatch Range, with 70% public land on the Gunnison ...
Unit 561 — Arkansas Headwaters / Collegiates South
Unit 561 sits in the heart of the Collegiate Peaks range in Chaffee County, straddling the San Isabel and Gunnison national forests between Buena Vist...
Unit 581 — San Juan Southwest Composite
Unit 581 is part of CPW's southwest composite elk hunt-code series around the San Juan Mountains. Roughly 802 licenses issued against 772 applicants a...
Unit 591 — Crown Mountain / Basalt
Unit 591 is a limited-quota subunit covering the Crown Mountain area near Basalt and Carbondale in Pitkin and Eagle counties. White River NF and BLM p...
Unit 681
Colorado Game Management Unit 681 offers an elk hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW l...
Unit 682
Unit 682 in southwest Colorado's San Juan Mountains near the Piedra River area offers elk hunting in rugged mixed-conifer and spruce-fir terrain withi...
Unit 711 — Wolf Creek / Upper Rio Grande
Unit 711 is a limited-quota subunit in the San Juan high country near Wolf Creek Pass, covering spruce-fir timber and alpine basins in Mineral and Arc...
Unit 741 — Cortez / Ute Mountain Foothills
Unit 741 covers Montezuma County in the far southwest of Colorado, including the McElmo Canyon and Ute Mountain foothills. Pinyon-juniper benches, sag...
Unit 751
Colorado GMU 751 is an elk limited-draw unit we target through the CPW preference-point system. We reference Big Game Statistics, the Hunting Atlas, a...
Unit 791
Unit 791 in southeast Colorado covers the Comanche National Grassland area and surrounding shortgrass prairie, offering mule deer hunting in an open, ...
Unit 851
Unit 851 in Colorado offers elk hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw. Hunter...
Unit G01 — Mount of the Holy Cross / Sawatch
Goat Unit G-1 covers the high country around the Mount of the Holy Cross Wilderness and the northern Sawatch Range in Eagle and Lake counties. Tags ar...
Unit G02 — Mount Evans / Front Range Alpine
Mountain Goat DAU G02 covers the spectacular alpine terrain of the Front Range and the Mount Evans / Arapaho National Forest area in Clear Creek and P...
Unit G03 — Goat - Mt Evans
Unit G03 is a Colorado mountain goat hunt area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point draw,...
Unit G04
Colorado Game Management Unit G04 offers a mountain goat hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through ...
Unit G05
Unit G05 in Colorado offers mountain goat hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point dr...
Unit G06
Colorado Mountain Goat Unit G06 is a limited-entry goat unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Ta...
Unit G07
Colorado Mountain Goat Unit G07 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually ...
Unit G08
Colorado Goat Unit G08 is a mountain goat unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Goat tags are once-in-a-lifetime limited-draw through the...
Unit G10
Colorado Mountain Goat Unit G10 is a limited-entry goat unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw. Mountain ...
Unit G11 — Weminuche / San Juan Mountains
Mountain Goat DAU G11 covers the rugged high-alpine terrain of the Weminuche Wilderness and surrounding San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado. CPW ...
Unit G12
Unit G12 in Colorado offers mountain goat hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point dr...
Unit G15 — Mount Evans
Unit G15 encompasses the Mount Evans massif and surrounding peaks west of Denver. This high-alpine goat unit is one of Colorado's most accessible than...
Unit G16
Unit G16 in Colorado offers mountain goat hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point dr...
Unit G17 — Collegiate Peaks Mountain Goat
G17 is a Sawatch and Collegiate Peaks mountain goat unit covering 14,000-foot alpine country in central Colorado. CPW issues about 18 tags across thre...
Unit G18
Colorado Goat Unit G18 is a once-in-a-lifetime mountain goat draw we target through CPW's preference-point system. Tag numbers are tiny, the applicati...
Unit S01
Colorado Bighorn Sheep Unit S01 is a limited-entry Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preferen...
Unit S02 — Pikes Peak
Unit S02 covers the Pikes Peak massif and adjacent alpine ridges. The granite-and-tundra country above treeline hosts a recovering Rocky Mountain bigh...
Unit S03
Colorado Game Management Unit S03 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through ...
Unit S04
Colorado Sheep Unit S04 is a bighorn sheep unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Bighorn tags are once-in-a-lifetime limited-draw through...
Unit S05
Colorado Sheep Unit S05 is a once-in-a-lifetime bighorn draw run through CPW's preference-point system. We treat the application as a multi-year point...
Unit S06
Colorado Sheep Unit S06 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW li...
Unit S07
Colorado Sheep Unit S07 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW li...
Unit S08 — Never Summer
Unit S08 covers the Never Summer Range on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park in Grand and Jackson Counties. The bighorn herd uses exposed a...
Unit S09
Colorado Bighorn Sheep Unit S09 is a limited-entry Rocky Mountain bighorn unit managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-poi...
Unit S10
Colorado Sheep Unit S10 is a once-in-a-lifetime bighorn draw handled through the CPW preference-point system. Tag counts are small and required points...
Unit S11 — Rocky Mountain National Park / Cache la Poudre
Bighorn Sheep GMU S11 covers the alpine terrain of Rocky Mountain National Park and the Cache la Poudre headwaters in Larimer County. CPW issues a ver...
Unit S12
Unit S12 in Colorado offers bighorn sheep hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point dr...
Unit S13 — Collegiate Peaks Bighorn
S13 is one of Colorado's premier bighorn sheep units, covering the Collegiate Peaks and upper Sawatch Range between Buena Vista and Leadville. CPW iss...
Unit S15 — Never Summer Range
Sheep Unit S15 covers the Never Summer Range on the west edge of Rocky Mountain National Park, straddling the Jackson-Grand county line. Steep alpine ...
Unit S16 — Collegiate Peaks
Unit S16 covers the Collegiate Peaks range in Chaffee County, including Mount Princeton, Mount Yale, and Mount Harvard. The bighorn herd uses high-alp...
Unit S17 — Collegiate Peaks / Sawatch
Sheep Unit S-17 covers high Sawatch Range bighorn country with cliff bands, alpine tundra, and steep talus. This is a once-in-a-lifetime draw — Colora...
Unit S19
Colorado Sheep Unit S19 is a once-in-a-lifetime bighorn draw run through CPW's preference-point system. Tag counts are small and points required climb...
Unit S20
Colorado Sheep Unit S20 is a once-in-a-lifetime bighorn draw handled through the CPW preference-point system. Tag numbers are tiny and top applicant p...
Unit S21
Colorado Game Management Unit S21 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through ...
Unit S22
Colorado Game Management Unit S22 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through ...
Unit S23 — Pikes Peak
Unit S23 covers the Pikes Peak massif in El Paso and Teller Counties, one of Colorado's most iconic Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep units. The herd lives...
Unit S24
Colorado Sheep Unit S24 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW li...
Unit S25
Unit S25 is a Colorado bighorn sheep unit with 114 applicants for 3 tags over three years, located in the rugged canyon and mountain country of the We...
Unit S26
Unit S26 is a Colorado bighorn sheep unit with 118 applicants competing for 6 tags over three years. This Western Slope sheep unit offers an opportuni...
Unit S28
Unit S28 is a Colorado bighorn sheep unit with 112 applicants for 5 tags over three years — slightly more accessible than many sheep units but still a...
Unit S29
Colorado Sheep Unit S29 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are issued through CPW's prefere...
Unit S31
Colorado Sheep Unit S31 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are issued through CPW's prefere...
Unit S32
Unit S32 in Colorado offers bighorn sheep hunting managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through the CPW preference-point dr...
Unit S33
Colorado Bighorn Sheep Unit S33 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually ...
Unit S34
Colorado Game Management Unit S34 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through ...
Unit S35
Colorado Sheep Unit S35 is a once-in-a-lifetime-class bighorn draw we target through CPW's preference-point system. Tags are strictly limited, point c...
Unit S36
Colorado Sheep Unit S36 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are issued through CPW's prefere...
Unit S37
Colorado Sheep Unit S37 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are issued through CPW's prefere...
Unit S38
S38 is a bighorn sheep management zone along the Front Range in Colorado, encompassing canyon country near the Arkansas River drainage. The unit holds...
Unit S39
Unit S39 encompasses the Arkansas River Canyon and Royal Gorge area in central Colorado, one of the state's premier bighorn sheep habitats. This drama...
Unit S40 — Trickle Mountain
Unit S40 covers Trickle Mountain and adjacent Saguache County terrain west of the San Luis Valley. This bighorn sheep unit supports a well-established...
Unit S41
Colorado Sheep Unit S41 is a once-in-a-lifetime bighorn draw run through CPW's preference-point system. We plan this unit as a multi-year point build ...
Unit S42 — S42
Sheep unit S42 is a Rocky Mountain bighorn once-in-a-lifetime hunt in central Colorado. We treat S42 as a serious long-points build under Colorado's p...
Unit S44 — Taylor River / Fossil Ridge Bighorn
S44 is a high-demand Colorado bighorn sheep hunt covering the Taylor River drainage and Fossil Ridge country northeast of Gunnison. CPW typically issu...
Unit S47 — San Luis Peak
Unit S47 surrounds San Luis Peak in Saguache and Mineral Counties, a remote fourteener in the La Garita Wilderness. The bighorn herd here uses alpine ...
Unit S48
Colorado Sheep Unit S48 is a once-in-a-lifetime bighorn draw we approach through CPW's preference-point system. Tag counts are tiny and point creep is...
Unit S49 — Arkansas River Canyon
Sheep Unit S-49 covers the Arkansas River Canyon between Salida and Canon City, one of Colorado's most-accessible desert-like bighorn hunts. Rams use ...
Unit S50
Unit S50 is a Colorado bighorn sheep unit with 145 applicants competing for 5 tags over three years — slightly more accessible than many sheep units b...
Unit S51 — Pikes Peak
Sheep Unit S51 centers on Pikes Peak in Teller and El Paso counties. Pike National Forest timber and alpine escarpments on the 14,115-foot peak suppor...
Unit S53
Colorado Sheep Unit S53 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are issued through CPW's prefere...
Unit S54 — Collegiate Peaks Sheep
Sheep Unit S54 covers the alpine escarpments of the Collegiate Peaks range in Chaffee County. Tall 14,000-foot peaks, rocky cirques, and tundra basins...
Unit S57 — Mount Evans / Georgetown Bighorn
S57 is the Mount Evans and Georgetown bighorn sheep unit in north-central Colorado — one of the more famous sheep units in the Lower 48, made visible ...
Unit S59
Colorado Sheep Unit S59 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are issued through CPW's prefere...
Unit S61
Colorado Bighorn Sheep Unit S61 is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) through its preference-point draw system. Tags are allocated annually ...
Unit S65
Colorado Sheep Unit S65 is a once-in-a-lifetime bighorn draw handled through the CPW preference-point system. With tiny tag counts and a growing appli...
Unit S66 — Lower Arkansas / Royal Gorge
Sheep Unit S66 surrounds the Arkansas River canyon from Salida east through Royal Gorge, covering the rocky breaks of Fremont and Chaffee counties. Li...
Unit S67
Unit S67 is a bighorn sheep unit in the rugged canyon and mountain terrain of Colorado's Western Slope. With 146 applicants for only 3 tags over three...
Unit S68
S68 is a bighorn sheep management zone in the Arkansas River canyon country of Chaffee and Fremont counties in south-central Colorado. The unit's dram...
Unit S69
Colorado Game Management Unit S69 offers a bighorn sheep hunting opportunity managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Tags are allocated through ...
Unit S70
Unit S70 is a Colorado bighorn sheep unit with 115 applicants for 3 tags over three years, covering rugged canyon and mountain terrain on the Western ...
Unit S71 — Rampart Range
Unit S71 covers the Rampart Range in Douglas and Jefferson Counties along the Front Range urban corridor. This unit holds a Rocky Mountain bighorn her...
Unit S72
Unit S72 is among Colorado's most competitive bighorn sheep draws, with 143 applicants for only 1 tag over three years. This unit covers remote canyon...
Unit S73 — South Park / Tarryall Bighorn
S73 covers the Tarryall and South Park bighorn herds in central Colorado, between Breckenridge, Fairplay, and the Platte River Mountains. CPW issues r...
Unit S74 — Black Canyon / Gunnison Gorge
Bighorn Sheep GMU S74 covers the rugged canyon terrain of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area in Montrose C...
Unit S75 — S75
Sheep unit S75 is a Rocky Mountain bighorn hunt in western Colorado with quality rams holding on rugged cliff-and-grass country. We treat S75 as a ser...
Unit S77 — Waterton-Kenosha
Unit S77 covers the South Platte corridor from Waterton Canyon to the Kenosha Pass area on the Front Range. The bighorn herd uses exposed granite face...
Unit S79 — Georgetown
Unit S79 covers the Georgetown area in Clear Creek County along the I-70 corridor, encompassing the bighorn herd that lives on the exposed south-facin...
Unit S80
Unit S80 represents a Colorado bighorn sheep hunting area managed through Colorado Parks and Wildlife's limited permit system. Bighorn sheep habitat i...