Unit research · Arizona Unit 36A

Unit 36A — Arizona

72% public across 395,141 ac. Road access is easy — only 2% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Deer draw odds (8)Javelina draw odds (5)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 36AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

2,040–6,190 ft

elevation range

72%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

2,459 ac

landlocked public

2.08

road miles per mi²

96 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

13 limited-entry deer and javelina hunts are drawn on Unit 36A: apply in the Arizona draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 8 draw hunts (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 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 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

■ SDOL 51%■ FWS 13%■ BLM 5%■ Other public 4%□ Private 28%

Unit area395,141 ac

Public land284,380 ac (72%)

Landlocked public2,459 ac (0.9%)

Deer draw pressure4.4 tags/mi² public (3.2 of total area)

Javelina draw pressure1.8 tags/mi² public (1.3 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,284 mi

Maintained trails96 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road4,853 ac (2% of public)

Road density2.08 mi/mi²

Managed bySDOL 200k ac · FWS 51k ac · BLM 19k ac

Elevation2,040–6,190 ft

Median elevation3,470 ft

Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

2,040 ft6,190 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%

E 25%

S 26%

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

5,725 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 TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, 42 km from the unit’s center and ~900 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

6% success

44 taken by 945 hunters · 5,024 days afield

44 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 8% → 6%

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 36C82% public · 5% remote Unit 36B86% public · 5% remote Unit 34A62% public · 5% remote Unit 38M34% public · 2% remote Unit 37A69% public · 2% remote Unit 35B63% public · 1% remote

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