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GMU 139 — Colorado

3% public hunting land across 768,784 ac. Road access is easy — only 1% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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3,570–4,550 ft

elevation range

public hunting land

of public >1 mi from a road

470 ac

landlocked public

1.16

road miles per mi²

35 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

6 limited-entry deer hunts are drawn on GMU 139: apply in the Colorado draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 6 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 →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

■ Forest Service 2%■ State wildlife 1%■ BLM 0%▨ Parks & other public 1%□ Private 95%

Unit area768,784 ac

Public hunting land26,851 ac (3%)

Parks & other public8,280 ac · State trust, State wildlife

Landlocked public470 ac (1.7%)

Deer draw pressure2.6 tags/mi² public (0.089 of total area)

Walk-in access11,796 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,390 mi

Mapped trails on public land35 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road316 ac (1% of public)

Road density1.16 mi/mi²

Managed byForest Service 18k ac · State wildlife 9k ac · BLM 0k ac

Elevation3,570–4,550 ft

Median elevation4,020 ft

Median slope0°

Where the ground sits

3,570 ft4,550 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 30%

E 23%

S 19%

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 · Pro, $5 a month or $49 a year

33,831 ac of this gmu has burned — 4% of the unit. 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 LA JUNTA MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, 125 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2024

0% success

0 taken by 8 hunters · 25 days afield

0 bulls · 0 cows · 0 calves

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

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	3

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

Deer · 2024

48% success

85 taken by 177 hunters · 810 days afield

68 bucks · 18 does · 0 fawns

Deer hunter success · 2019–2024 · 51% → 48%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	26%	7	28
Muzzleloader	32%	3	10

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

Pronghorn · 2024

53% success

54 taken by 101 hunters · 297 days afield

19 bucks · 31 does · 3 fawns

Pronghorn hunter success · 2019–2024 · 37% → 53%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	2
Muzzleloader	0%	0	10

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

Herd-level estimates · 95% CI

deer · DAU D-28 · 2025: 704 harvested (CI 659–751) · 33% success

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

pronghorn · DAU A-18 · 2025: 116 harvested (CI 98–138) · 43% 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.

Nearby GMUs

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