Unit research · Colorado GMU 84

GMU 84 — Colorado

29% public across 819,874 ac. Road access is easy — only 16% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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4,650–12,280 ft

elevation range

29%

public land

16%

of public >1 mi from a road

3,459 ac

landlocked public

2.00

road miles per mi²

403 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 and elk hunts are drawn on GMU 84: apply in the Colorado draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$60.18 resident · $518.41 nonresident

Elk tag · 7 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 20%■ SFW 3%■ BLM 3%■ Other public 3%□ Private 71%

Unit area819,874 ac

Public land236,514 ac (29%)

Landlocked public3,459 ac (1.5%)

Deer draw pressure0.091 tags/mi² public (0.026 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.093 tags/mi² public (0.027 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,559 mi

Maintained trails403 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road37,728 ac (16% of public)

Road density2.00 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 160k ac · SFW 28k ac · BLM 26k ac

Elevation4,650–12,280 ft

Median elevation6,560 ft

Median slope5°

Where the ground sits

4,650 ft12,280 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%

E 27%

S 26%

W 21%

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

127,111 ac of this gmu has burned — 16% 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 PUEBLO MEMORIAL AIRPORT, 50 km from the unit’s center and ~1,900 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2024

38% success

272 taken by 722 hunters · 4,307 days afield

118 bulls · 147 cows · 8 calves

Elk hunter success · 2019–2024 · 33% → 38%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
1st rifle	48%	20	42
2nd rifle	34%	33	96
3rd rifle	34%	27	79
4th rifle	13%	5	38
Archery	29%	22	75
Muzzleloader	33%	16	50

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

Deer · 2024

45% success

529 taken by 1,179 hunters · 5,224 days afield

402 bucks · 120 does · 7 fawns

Deer hunter success · 2019–2024 · 45% → 45%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	31%	38	122
Muzzleloader	26%	22	82

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

Pronghorn · 2024

44% success

131 taken by 301 hunters · 907 days afield

72 bucks · 48 does · 11 fawns

Pronghorn hunter success · 2019–2024 · 43% → 44%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	18%	11	62
Muzzleloader	77%	17	22

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

Herd-level estimates · 95% CI

deer · DAU D-34 · 2025: 1,464 harvested (CI 1,352–1,585) · 46% success

elk · DAU E-28 · 2025: 397 harvested (CI 349–451) · 34% success

pronghorn · DAU A-20 · 2025: 444 harvested (CI 405–488) · 48% 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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