Units / California / Hunt zone G1
Deer hunt area — its own geography, not the zone with the same number. Public land, access, and deer harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public hunting land
31%
771,689 ac of 2,472,890 ac
Landlocked public
15,920 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
9%
of public · 68,280 ac
Walk-in access
55,166 ac
private land opened to hunting
Deer · 2024
34.9% success
no unit-level hunter count published
902 bucks (bucks only)
Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 34% → 35%
Plan it
California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here →
2,710 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
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 400 m grid. See the code →
Nearby deer hunt zones
Boundaries from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife deer hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.