Unit research · Colorado GMU 211

GMU 211 — Colorado

45% public across 275,658 ac. Road access is easy — only 5% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Deer draw odds (3)Elk draw odds (3)Pronghorn draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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5,910–8,650 ft

elevation range

45%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

2,078 ac

landlocked public

1.45

road miles per mi²

173 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

8 limited-entry deer, elk and pronghorn hunts are drawn on GMU 211: 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 · 3 draw hunts (2026)$79.33 resident · $856.65 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 elk →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 39%■ SFW 4%■ SLB 2%□ Private 55%

Unit area275,658 ac

Public land123,053 ac (45%)

Landlocked public2,078 ac (1.7%)

Deer draw pressure0.063 tags/mi² public (0.028 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.38 tags/mi² public (0.17 of total area)

Pronghorn draw pressure0.021 tags/mi² public (0.009 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)624 mi

Maintained trails173 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road6,039 ac (5% of public)

Road density1.45 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 108k ac · SFW 10k ac · SLB 5k ac

Elevation5,910–8,650 ft

Median elevation6,880 ft

Median slope10°

Where the ground sits

5,910 ft8,650 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%

E 29%

S 18%

W 30%

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

9,789 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 EAGLE CO REGIONAL AIRPORT, 112 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2024

25% success

460 taken by 1,821 hunters · 8,375 days afield

333 bulls · 105 cows · 21 calves

Elk hunter success · 2019–2024 · 24% → 25%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
1st rifle	21%	33	158
2nd rifle	21%	95	457
3rd rifle	22%	97	453
4th rifle	17%	39	233
Archery	27%	103	376
Muzzleloader	55%	32	59

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

Deer · 2024

40% success

183 taken by 452 hunters · 1,742 days afield

165 bucks · 18 does · 0 fawns

Deer hunter success · 2019–2024 · 54% → 40%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	3
Muzzleloader	47%	2	5

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

Pronghorn · 2024

50% success

15 taken by 30 hunters · 106 days afield

10 bucks · 5 does · 0 fawns

Pronghorn hunter success · 2019–2024 · 87% → 50%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	4
Muzzleloader	50%	4	8

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

Herd-level estimates · 95% CI

deer · DAU D-7 · 2025: 2,363 harvested (CI 2,242–2,490) · 52% success

elk · DAU E-6 · 2025: 4,321 harvested (CI 4,084–4,572) · 20% success

pronghorn · DAU A-34 · 2025: 42 harvested (CI 37–48) · 64% 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.

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