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Unit 46A — Arizona

100% public across 400,666 ac. Real backcountry here — 93% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. No landlocked public land.

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

Unit 46AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

730–3,270 ft

elevation range

100%

public land

93%

of public >1 mi from a road

0 ac

landlocked public

0.03

road miles per mi²

8 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

2 limited-entry bighorn sheep and deer hunts are drawn on Unit 46A: 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 · 1 draw hunt (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 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 bighorn sheep →Draw odds for Arizona deer →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

■ FWS 100%□ Private 0%

Unit area400,666 ac

Public land400,352 ac (100%)

Landlocked public0 ac (0.0%)

Bighorn sheep draw pressure0.002 tags/mi² public (0.002 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)18 mi

Maintained trails8 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road371,192 ac (93% of public)

Road density0.03 mi/mi²

Managed byFWS 400k ac

Elevation730–3,270 ft

Median elevation1,060 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

730 ft3,270 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%

E 24%

S 23%

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

8 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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Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

0% success

0 taken by 0 hunters · 0 days afield

0 bucks · 0 does

Deer harvest · 2024–2025 · 0 → 0

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 46B100% public · 98% remote Unit 40B27% public · 40% remote Unit 40A51% public · 35% remote Unit 3974% public · 31% remote Unit 4156% public · 30% remote Unit 45C100% public · 46% remote

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