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GMU 124 — Colorado

1% public hunting land across 374,357 ac. Real backcountry here — 51% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 3,219 ac of public land has no public route in.

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Deer draw odds (2)Pronghorn draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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4,300–5,390 ft

elevation range

public hunting land

51%

of public >1 mi from a road

3,219 ac

landlocked public

0.79

road miles per mi²

0 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

4 limited-entry deer and pronghorn hunts are drawn on GMU 124: apply in the Colorado draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$60.18 resident · $518.41 nonresident

Pronghorn tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$60.18 resident · $518.41 nonresident

Plus: Qualifying license (annual small game, cheapest adult route)$38.49 resident · $104.86 nonresident

Season dates: see Colorado Parks & Wildlife's regulations

2026 Colorado Big Game brochure (rev. 2026-03-18) ↗

Colorado Parks & Wildlife — licenses and tags ↗Draw odds for Colorado deer →Draw odds for Colorado pronghorn →How the Colorado draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Colorado Parks & Wildlife, 2026, verified 2026-08-05 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a gmu that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: 2026 Colorado Big Game brochure (rev. 2026-03-18) · CPW primary draw · CPW refunds, reversals and exchanges · Chapter W-2 (2 CCR 406-2), approved 2025-05-07.

Land & access

■ BLM 1%▨ Parks & other public 5%□ Private 94%

Unit area374,357 ac

Public hunting land3,978 ac (1%)

Parks & other public19,962 ac · State trust

Landlocked public3,219 ac (80.9%)

Deer draw pressure20 tags/mi² public (0.041 of total area)

Pronghorn draw pressure148 tags/mi² public (0.30 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)460 mi

Mapped trails on public land0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road2,016 ac (51% of public)

Road density0.79 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 4k ac

Elevation4,300–5,390 ft

Median elevation4,700 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

4,300 ft5,390 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 12%

E 29%

S 28%

W 31%

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 →

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Burn history, migration coverage, and terrain for this gmu — 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 PUEBLO MEMORIAL AIRPORT, 48 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2024

0% success

0 taken by 3 hunters · 21 days afield

0 bulls · 0 cows · 0 calves

Elk hunter success · 2019–2024 · 10% → 0%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	7

Which season is the value play here — same ground, different odds.

Deer · 2024

37% success

20 taken by 55 hunters · 189 days afield

18 bucks · 3 does · 0 fawns

Deer hunter success · 2019–2024 · 42% → 37%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	4
Muzzleloader	0%	0	5

Which season is the value play here — same ground, different odds.

Pronghorn · 2024

57% success

248 taken by 432 hunters · 1,223 days afield

126 bucks · 104 does · 17 fawns

Pronghorn hunter success · 2019–2024 · 57% → 57%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	28%	4	13
Muzzleloader	57%	7	13

Which season is the value play here — same ground, different odds.

Herd-level estimates · 95% CI

deer · DAU D-48 · 2025: 368 harvested (CI 335–404) · 41% success

elk · DAU E-99 · 2025: 384 harvested (CI 341–432) · 23% success

pronghorn · DAU A-8 · 2025: 1,426 harvested (CI 1,336–1,522) · 47% success

CPW’s stratified-survey estimates for the whole herd unit (DAU) this GMU belongs to — published with the uncertainty the per-GMU tables can’t carry.

CPW estimates harvest, hunters, success and recreation days from its Big Game Harvest Survey. Unit tables run 2019-2024; the 2025 report switched to per-hunt-code tables without unit totals, so unit series end at 2024 and 2025 success rates appear on the draw-odds tables instead. Source: CPW Statewide Harvest Estimates (per species-year PDFs on the species statistics pages).

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, tell us at support@openhuntmaps.com — the fix ships for everyone.

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