Units / California / Hunt zone J17
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 land
30%
396,553 ac of 1,325,368 ac
Landlocked public
4,602 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
11%
of public · 44,380 ac
Walk-in access
8,219 ac
private land opened to hunting
Deer · 2024
26.1% success
no district-level hunter estimate published
3 bucks · 4 does
Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 20% → 26%
Plan it
California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here →
25 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 200 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.