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GMU 58 — Colorado

47% public hunting land across 558,397 ac. Road access is easy — only 12% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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5,750–11,630 ft

elevation range

47%

public hunting land

12%

of public >1 mi from a road

2,976 ac

landlocked public

1.39

road miles per mi²

197 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

2 limited-entry deer hunts are drawn on GMU 58: apply in the Colorado draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer 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 →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 29%■ Forest Service 9%■ State wildlife 8%▨ Parks & other public 4%□ Private 49%

Unit area558,397 ac

Public hunting land261,182 ac (47%)

Parks & other public21,347 ac · State trust, Private conservation, Water district

Landlocked public2,976 ac (1.1%)

Deer draw pressure0.094 tags/mi² public (0.044 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,211 mi

Mapped trails on public land197 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road31,699 ac (12% of public)

Road density1.39 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 164k ac · Forest Service 53k ac · State wildlife 45k ac

Elevation5,750–11,630 ft

Median elevation9,110 ft

Median slope9°

Where the ground sits

5,750 ft11,630 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%

E 28%

S 26%

W 23%

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

75 ac of this gmu has burned — 0% 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 BUTTS AAF AIRPORT, 80 km from the unit’s center and ~3,300 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2024

32% success

288 taken by 906 hunters · 5,153 days afield

150 bulls · 132 cows · 5 calves

Elk hunter success · 2019–2024 · 26% → 32%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
1st rifle	28%	26	93
2nd rifle	24%	39	160
3rd rifle	33%	36	109
4th rifle	33%	45	135
Archery	31%	40	130
Muzzleloader	33%	42	129

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

Deer · 2024

46% success

228 taken by 495 hunters · 2,298 days afield

212 bucks · 16 does · 0 fawns

Deer hunter success · 2019–2024 · 38% → 46%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	9%	9	96
Muzzleloader	46%	21	46

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

Pronghorn · 2024

51% success

44 taken by 88 hunters · 239 days afield

20 bucks · 24 does · 0 fawns

Pronghorn hunter success · 2019–2024 · 60% → 51%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	19%	4	22
Muzzleloader	22%	2	7

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

Herd-level estimates · 95% CI

deer · DAU D-16 · 2025: 1,048 harvested (CI 952–1,154) · 48% success

elk · DAU E-22 · 2025: 838 harvested (CI 787–891) · 34% success

pronghorn · DAU A-30 · 2025: 106 harvested (CI 98–116) · 40% 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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