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Unit 24B — Arizona

94% public hunting land across 498,351 ac. Real backcountry here — 32% 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 (5)Javelina draw odds (4)Odds and pins: free, no account

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1,310–6,080 ft

elevation range

94%

public hunting land

32%

of public >1 mi from a road

77 ac

landlocked public

1.02

road miles per mi²

457 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

12 limited-entry bighorn sheep, deer and javelina hunts are drawn on Unit 24B: 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 · 5 draw hunts (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 nonresident

Javelina tag · 4 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 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

■ Forest Service 86%■ State lands 8%■ BLM 1%□ Private 5%

Unit area498,351 ac

Public hunting land470,188 ac (94%)

Parks & other public1,891 ac · County, National Park Service

Landlocked public77 ac (0.0%)

Bighorn sheep draw pressure0.003 tags/mi² public (0.003 of total area)

Deer draw pressure1.3 tags/mi² public (1.3 of total area)

Javelina draw pressure0.82 tags/mi² public (0.77 of total area)

Walk-in access383 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)793 mi

Mapped trails on public land457 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road151,248 ac (32% of public)

Road density1.02 mi/mi²

Managed byForest Service 429k ac · State lands 38k ac · BLM 4k ac

Elevation1,310–6,080 ft

Median elevation3,180 ft

Median slope15°

Where the ground sits

1,310 ft6,080 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%

E 25%

S 23%

W 27%

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 →

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203,558 ac of this unit has burned — 41% 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 PHOENIX SKY HARBOR INTL AIRPORT, 75 km from the unit’s center and ~2,100 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

3% success

22 taken by 551 hunters · 2,436 days afield

22 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 4% → 3%

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 →

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Nearby units

Unit 24A86% public · 15% remote Unit 2398% public · 13% remote Unit 37B84% public · 5% remote Unit 2296% public · 35% remote Unit 26M18% public · 1% remote Unit 25M9% public · 5% remote

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