Unit research · Arizona Unit 3A

Unit 3A — Arizona

30% public across 494,610 ac. Road access is easy — only 9% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 31,010 ac of public land has no public route in.

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Deer draw odds (3)Elk draw odds (8)Pronghorn draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 3AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

5,090–6,440 ft

elevation range

30%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

31,010 ac

landlocked public

1.42

road miles per mi²

0 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, elk and pronghorn hunts are drawn on Unit 3A: apply in the Arizona draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 nonresident

Elk tag · 8 draw hunts (2026)$148.00 resident · $665.00 nonresident

Pronghorn tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$103.00 resident · $565.00 nonresident

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 elk →Draw odds for Arizona pronghorn →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%■ BLM 7%■ USFS 4%□ Private 70%

Unit area494,610 ac

Public land147,045 ac (30%)

Landlocked public31,010 ac (21.1%)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,096 mi

Maintained trails0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road13,205 ac (9% of public)

Road density1.42 mi/mi²

Managed bySDOL 93k ac · BLM 36k ac · USFS 18k ac

Elevation5,090–6,440 ft

Median elevation5,560 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

5,090 ft6,440 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%

E 27%

S 22%

W 29%

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

3,687 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 WINSLOW-LINDBERGH REGIONAL AIRPORT, 74 km from the unit’s center and ~700 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2023 · OTC archery

0% success

0 taken by 4 hunters · 7 days afield

0 bucks · 0 does

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 3B45% public · 4% remote Unit 4B46% public · 10% remote Unit 2A46% public · 30% remote Unit 3C82% public · 1% remote Unit 2C59% public · 1% remote Unit 4A66% public · 7% remote

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