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Unit 26M — Arizona

19% public across 1,345,646 ac. Road access is easy — only 1% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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530–4,820 ft

elevation range

19%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

1,412 ac

landlocked public

5.37

road miles per mi²

2,597 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Tags: check Arizona Game and Fish Department.

No draw hunts are published for this unit. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Arizona Game and Fish Department's regulations.

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 ↗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

■ SDOL 16%■ BLM 1%■ REG 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 81%

Unit area1,345,646 ac

Public land256,071 ac (19%)

Landlocked public1,412 ac (0.6%)

Walk-in access651 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)11,285 mi

Maintained trails2,597 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road3,044 ac (1% of public)

Road density5.37 mi/mi²

Managed bySDOL 212k ac · BLM 18k ac · REG 17k ac

Elevation530–4,820 ft

Median elevation1,410 ft

Median slope0°

Where the ground sits

530 ft4,820 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%

E 25%

S 27%

W 24%

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

7,315 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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Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

19% success

15 taken by 148 hunters · 773 days afield

15 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 11% → 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)
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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 25M19% public · 9% remote Unit 24B95% public · 32% remote Unit 3974% public · 31% remote Unit 37B90% public · 5% remote Unit 40A51% public · 35% remote Unit 37A69% public · 2% remote

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