Unit research · Colorado GMU 62

GMU 62 — Colorado

70% public across 880,844 ac. Road access is easy — only 9% 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 (12)Elk draw odds (15)Odds and pins: free, no account

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4,640–10,300 ft

elevation range

70%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

160 ac

landlocked public

1.92

road miles per mi²

1,535 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

27 limited-entry deer and elk hunts are drawn on GMU 62: apply in the Colorado draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 12 draw hunts (2026)$60.18 resident · $518.41 nonresident

Elk tag · 15 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

■ BLM 39%■ USFS 29%■ SFW 1%□ Private 30%

Unit area880,844 ac

Public land612,923 ac (70%)

Landlocked public160 ac (0.0%)

Deer draw pressure1.3 tags/mi² public (0.88 of total area)

Elk draw pressure1.7 tags/mi² public (1.2 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,640 mi

Maintained trails1,535 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road52,584 ac (9% of public)

Road density1.92 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 345k ac · USFS 255k ac · SFW 12k ac

Elevation4,640–10,300 ft

Median elevation7,200 ft

Median slope6°

Where the ground sits

4,640 ft10,300 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 31%

E 35%

S 16%

W 18%

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

12,786 ac of this gmu has burned — 1% 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 GRAND JUNCTION REGIONAL AIRPORT, 72 km from the unit’s center and ~2,400 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2024

18% success

1,024 taken by 5,669 hunters · 33,819 days afield

653 bulls · 342 cows · 28 calves

Elk hunter success · 2019–2024 · 13% → 18%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
1st rifle	32%	147	455
2nd rifle	18%	284	1,567
3rd rifle	15%	127	832
4th rifle	26%	59	229
Archery	15%	345	2,365
Muzzleloader	20%	40	197

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

Deer · 2024

44% success

599 taken by 1,374 hunters · 7,197 days afield

564 bucks · 34 does · 0 fawns

Deer hunter success · 2019–2024 · 46% → 44%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	17%	30	174
Muzzleloader	43%	58	133

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

Pronghorn · 2021

100% success

1 taken by 1 hunters · 1 days afield

1 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Pronghorn hunter success · 2019–2021 · 100% → 100%

Herd-level estimates · 95% CI

deer · DAU D-19 · 2025: 877 harvested (CI 817–941) · 50% success

elk · DAU E-20 · 2025: 1,799 harvested (CI 1,690–1,915) · 27% success

pronghorn · DAU A-27 · 2025: 0 harvested (CI 0–0) · 0% 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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