Unit research · Colorado GMU 441

GMU 441 — Colorado

33% public across 124,304 ac. Road access is easy — only 23% 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 (2)Elk draw odds (4)Pronghorn draw odds (1)Odds and pins: free, no account

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6,240–10,790 ft

elevation range

33%

public land

23%

of public >1 mi from a road

40 ac

landlocked public

1.16

road miles per mi²

17 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

7 limited-entry deer, elk and pronghorn hunts are drawn on GMU 441: apply in the Colorado draw, by the agency's deadline below.

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

Elk tag · 4 draw hunts (2026)$79.33 resident · $856.65 nonresident

Pronghorn tag · 1 draw hunt (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

■ USFS 19%■ SFW 8%■ SLB 3%■ Other public 3%□ Private 67%

Unit area124,304 ac

Public land40,697 ac (33%)

Landlocked public40 ac (0.1%)

Deer draw pressure0.047 tags/mi² public (0.015 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.83 tags/mi² public (0.27 of total area)

Pronghorn draw pressure0.031 tags/mi² public (0.010 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)225 mi

Maintained trails17 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road9,321 ac (23% of public)

Road density1.16 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 23k ac · SFW 10k ac · SLB 4k ac

Elevation6,240–10,790 ft

Median elevation7,170 ft

Median slope8°

Where the ground sits

6,240 ft10,790 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%

E 15%

S 25%

W 39%

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

2,726 ac of this gmu has burned — 2% 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, 110 km from the unit’s center and ~700 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2024

37% success

270 taken by 740 hunters · 3,108 days afield

168 bulls · 102 cows · 0 calves

Elk hunter success · 2019–2024 · 29% → 37%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
1st rifle	41%	56	136
2nd rifle	12%	23	194
3rd rifle	30%	22	72
4th rifle	29%	10	36
Archery	20%	22	107
Muzzleloader	63%	23	37

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

Deer · 2024

64% success

131 taken by 206 hunters · 820 days afield

120 bucks · 12 does · 0 fawns

Deer hunter success · 2019–2024 · 46% → 64%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	46%	16	36
Muzzleloader	28%	4	13

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

Pronghorn · 2024

68% success

27 taken by 40 hunters · 129 days afield

27 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Pronghorn hunter success · 2019–2024 · 67% → 68%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	17%	1	6
Muzzleloader	50%	4	8

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

Herd-level estimates · 95% CI

deer · DAU D-2 · 2025: 2,161 harvested (CI 2,044–2,284) · 60% success

elk · DAU E-2 · 2025: 2,286 harvested (CI 2,163–2,415) · 26% success

pronghorn · DAU A-9 · 2025: 271 harvested (CI 267–276) · 67% 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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