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Unit 38M — Arizona

34% public across 490,540 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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1,920–4,540 ft

elevation range

34%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

1,633 ac

landlocked public

7.38

road miles per mi²

2,378 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 19%■ CNTY 7%■ NPS 4%■ Other public 3%□ Private 66%

Unit area490,540 ac

Public land165,921 ac (34%)

Landlocked public1,633 ac (1.0%)

Walk-in access81,254 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)5,655 mi

Maintained trails2,378 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road2,738 ac (2% of public)

Road density7.38 mi/mi²

Managed bySDOL 94k ac · CNTY 35k ac · NPS 21k ac

Elevation1,920–4,540 ft

Median elevation2,660 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

1,920 ft4,540 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%

E 23%

S 27%

W 26%

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

315 ac of this unit has burned — 0% 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 DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB AIRPORT, 5 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

15% success

29 taken by 366 hunters · 1,454 days afield

29 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 21% → 15%

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 3386% public · 25% remote Unit 36A72% public · 2% remote Unit 34A62% public · 5% remote Unit 34B77% public · 12% remote Unit 37A69% public · 2% remote Unit 3278% public · 19% remote

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