Unit research · Arizona Unit 16A

Unit 16A — Arizona

80% public across 1,580,816 ac. Real backcountry here — 30% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Bighorn sheep draw odds (3)Deer draw odds (2)Elk draw odds (2)Javelina draw odds (5)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 16AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

450–8,320 ft

elevation range

80%

public land

30%

of public >1 mi from a road

29,855 ac

landlocked public

1.27

road miles per mi²

94 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

12 limited-entry bighorn sheep, deer, elk and javelina hunts are drawn on Unit 16A: 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

Deer tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 nonresident

Elk tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$148.00 resident · $665.00 nonresident

Javelina tag · 5 draw huntsprice not published

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 deer →Draw odds for Arizona elk →Draw odds for Arizona javelina →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 75%■ SDOL 5%■ FWS 0%□ Private 20%

Unit area1,580,816 ac

Public land1,266,981 ac (80%)

Landlocked public29,855 ac (2.4%)

Bighorn sheep draw pressure0.001 tags/mi² public (0.001 of total area)

Deer draw pressure0.13 tags/mi² public (0.099 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.007 tags/mi² public (0.006 of total area)

Javelina draw pressure0.14 tags/mi² public (0.11 of total area)

Walk-in access13,260 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)3,135 mi

Maintained trails94 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road384,506 ac (30% of public)

Road density1.27 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 1180k ac · SDOL 82k ac · FWS 2k ac

Elevation450–8,320 ft

Median elevation2,490 ft

Median slope6°

Where the ground sits

450 ft8,320 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%

E 24%

S 28%

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

22,114 ac of this unit has burned — 1% of the unit. 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 KINGMAN AIRPORT, 68 km from the unit’s center and ~900 ft above its median elevation — expect the unit to run warmer. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

19% success

26 taken by 357 hunters · 1,912 days afield

26 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 4% → 19%

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 16B78% public · 21% remote Unit 18B60% public · 27% remote Unit 15D62% public · 24% remote Unit 44A90% public · 36% remote Unit 18A52% public · 15% remote Unit 17B82% public · 13% remote

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