Unit research · Arizona Unit 5A

Unit 5A — Arizona

69% public across 443,037 ac. Road access is easy — only 6% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 31,665 ac of public land has no public route in.

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Bighorn sheep draw odds (1)Bison draw odds (7)Deer draw odds (2)Elk draw odds (15)Pronghorn draw odds (4)Turkey draw odds (3)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 5AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

4,850–8,060 ft

elevation range

69%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

31,665 ac

landlocked public

2.31

road miles per mi²

59 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

32 limited-entry bighorn sheep, bison, deer, elk, pronghorn and turkey hunts are drawn on Unit 5A: 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

Bison tag · 7 draw hunts (2026)$1,113.00 resident · $5,415.00 nonresident

Deer tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 nonresident

Elk tag · 15 draw hunts (2026)$148.00 resident · $665.00 nonresident

Pronghorn tag · 4 draw hunts (2026)$103.00 resident · $565.00 nonresident

Turkey tag · 3 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 bison →Draw odds for Arizona deer →Draw odds for Arizona elk →Draw odds for Arizona pronghorn →Draw odds for Arizona turkey →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

■ USFS 40%■ SDOL 28%□ Private 31%

Unit area443,037 ac

Public land303,625 ac (69%)

Landlocked public31,665 ac (10.4%)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,596 mi

Maintained trails59 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road18,800 ac (6% of public)

Road density2.31 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 179k ac · SDOL 124k ac

Elevation4,850–8,060 ft

Median elevation5,920 ft

Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

4,850 ft8,060 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 22%

E 32%

S 18%

W 28%

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

87,708 ac of this unit has burned — 20% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 3%. 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, 39 km from the unit’s center and ~1,000 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

8% success

19 taken by 338 hunters · 1,477 days afield

19 bucks (bucks only)

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

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 4A66% public · 7% remote Unit 5B84% public · 2% remote Unit 4B46% public · 10% remote Unit 6A95% public · 5% remote Unit 11M75% public · 0% remote Unit 3C82% public · 1% remote

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