Unit research · Colorado GMU 19

GMU 19 — Colorado

69% public across 270,820 ac. Real backcountry here — 28% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Deer draw odds (3)Elk draw odds (9)Odds and pins: free, no account

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4,840–12,610 ft

elevation range

69%

public land

28%

of public >1 mi from a road

570 ac

landlocked public

2.55

road miles per mi²

380 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

12 limited-entry deer and elk hunts are drawn on GMU 19: apply in the Colorado draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$60.18 resident · $518.41 nonresident

Elk tag · 9 draw hunts (2026)$79.33 resident · $856.65 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 elk →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

■ USFS 61%■ CITY 3%■ CNTY 2%■ Other public 4%□ Private 31%

Unit area270,820 ac

Public land187,865 ac (69%)

Landlocked public570 ac (0.3%)

Deer draw pressure4.2 tags/mi² public (2.9 of total area)

Elk draw pressure1.4 tags/mi² public (0.94 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,079 mi

Maintained trails380 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road53,404 ac (28% of public)

Road density2.55 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 164k ac · CITY 8k ac · CNTY 6k ac

Elevation4,840–12,610 ft

Median elevation8,230 ft

Median slope13°

Where the ground sits

4,840 ft12,610 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 33%

E 27%

S 20%

W 19%

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

165,541 ac of this gmu has burned — 61% 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 LARAMIE REGIONAL AIRPORT, 81 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

Elk · 2024

10% success

119 taken by 1,140 hunters · 6,811 days afield

85 bulls · 24 cows · 11 calves

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

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
1st rifle	21%	21	99
2nd rifle	7%	15	200
3rd rifle	6%	11	175
4th rifle	2%	2	81
Archery	10%	27	268
Muzzleloader	19%	35	182

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

Deer · 2024

29% success

333 taken by 1,138 hunters · 4,043 days afield

226 bucks · 99 does · 8 fawns

Deer hunter success · 2019–2024 · 31% → 29%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	11%	28	246
Muzzleloader	18%	21	113

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

Pronghorn · 2024

0% success

0 taken by 2 hunters · 2 days afield

0 bucks · 0 does · 0 fawns

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

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	2

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

Herd-level estimates · 95% CI

deer · DAU D-4 · 2025: 1,419 harvested (CI 1,294–1,556) · 29% success

elk · DAU E-4 · 2025: 645 harvested (CI 574–725) · 11% success

pronghorn · DAU A-99 · 2025: 6 harvested (CI 3–12) · 21% 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, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

Nearby GMUs

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