Unit research · Arizona Unit 12B

Unit 12B — Arizona

96% public across 706,181 ac. Road access is easy — only 9% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Bighorn sheep draw odds (3)Bison draw odds (6)Deer draw odds (6)Pronghorn draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 12BFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

3,100–7,340 ft

elevation range

96%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

4,264 ac

landlocked public

1.43

road miles per mi²

75 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

17 limited-entry bighorn sheep, bison, deer and pronghorn hunts are drawn on Unit 12B: apply in the Arizona draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Bighorn sheep tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$313.00 resident · $1,815.00 nonresident

Bison tag · 6 draw hunts (2026)$1,113.00 resident · $5,415.00 nonresident

Deer tag · 6 draw hunts (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 nonresident

Pronghorn tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$103.00 resident · $565.00 nonresident

Plus: Arizona hunting license (365-day)$37.00 resident · $160.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Arizona Game and Fish Department's regulations

2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information (AZGFD booklet) ↗

Arizona Game and Fish Department — licenses and tags ↗Draw odds for Arizona bighorn sheep →Draw odds for Arizona bison →Draw odds for Arizona deer →Draw odds for Arizona pronghorn →How the Arizona draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Arizona Game and Fish Department, 2026, verified 2026-08-05 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a unit that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: 2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information (AZGFD booklet) · 2026-27 Arizona Hunting Regulations (AZGFD booklet) · AZGFD bulletin: 2026 pronghorn/elk results · AZGFD bulletin: 2026 fall draw results.

Land & access

■ BLM 85%■ SDOL 7%■ NPS 4%□ Private 4%

Unit area706,181 ac

Public land676,294 ac (96%)

Landlocked public4,264 ac (0.6%)

Deer draw pressure0.029 tags/mi² public (0.027 of total area)

Walk-in access98 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,577 mi

Maintained trails75 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road58,673 ac (9% of public)

Road density1.43 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 602k ac · SDOL 48k ac · NPS 27k ac

Elevation3,100–7,340 ft

Median elevation5,340 ft

Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

3,100 ft7,340 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%

E 28%

S 22%

W 25%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

Unit intelligence report

20,981 ac of this unit has burned — 3% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 9%. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at BRYCE CANYON AIRPORT, 97 km from the unit’s center and ~2,200 ft above its median elevation — expect the unit to run warmer. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2023 · OTC archery

0% success

0 taken by 4 hunters · 0 days afield

0 bucks · 0 does

AZGFD survey estimates. Draw-hunt results are published per hunt number (grouped or split unit geographies) and appear on the draw-odds tables; the over-the-counter archery deer questionnaire is Arizona's only per-unit harvest publication, so unit pages show OTC archery deer only. Deer counts combine mule deer and white-tailed; "antlerless" is recorded as female. Source: AZGFD Harvest Questionnaire Summaries (per species-year).

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

Nearby units

Unit 12A100% public · 3% remote Unit 13A85% public · 14% remote Unit 977% public · 10% remote Unit 1039% public · 11% remote Unit 13B97% public · 23% remote Unit 780% public · 7% remote

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