Unit research · Arizona Unit 42

Unit 42 — Arizona

70% public across 952,561 ac. Road access is easy — only 25% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Bighorn sheep draw odds (1)Deer draw odds (3)Javelina draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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1,020–3,980 ft

elevation range

70%

public land

25%

of public >1 mi from a road

9,403 ac

landlocked public

1.68

road miles per mi²

445 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

6 limited-entry bighorn sheep, deer and javelina hunts are drawn on Unit 42: apply in the Arizona draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Bighorn sheep tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$313.00 resident · $1,815.00 nonresident

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

Javelina tag · 2 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

■ BLM 40%■ SDOL 27%■ REG 3%□ Private 30%

Unit area952,561 ac

Public land667,661 ac (70%)

Landlocked public9,403 ac (1.4%)

Deer draw pressure0.34 tags/mi² public (0.24 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,504 mi

Maintained trails445 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road166,648 ac (25% of public)

Road density1.68 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 384k ac · SDOL 253k ac · REG 29k ac

Elevation1,020–3,980 ft

Median elevation1,870 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

1,020 ft3,980 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 22%

E 27%

S 25%

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

3,332 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 LUKE AFB AIRPORT, 51 km from the unit’s center and ~800 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

2% success

11 taken by 380 hunters · 2,200 days afield

11 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 8% → 2%

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 20B88% public · 8% remote Unit 20C78% public · 28% remote Unit 44A90% public · 36% remote Unit 25M19% public · 9% remote Unit 4156% public · 30% remote Unit 26M19% public · 1% remote

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