Unit research · Colorado GMU 93

GMU 93 — Colorado

11% public across 605,319 ac. Road access is easy — only 11% 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 (8)Pronghorn draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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3,450–4,370 ft

elevation range

11%

public land

11%

of public >1 mi from a road

40 ac

landlocked public

1.65

road miles per mi²

0 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

10 limited-entry deer and pronghorn hunts are drawn on GMU 93: apply in the Colorado draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 8 draw hunts (2026)$60.18 resident · $518.41 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 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

■ SLB 10%■ SFW 1%□ Private 89%

Unit area605,319 ac

Public land64,805 ac (11%)

Landlocked public40 ac (0.1%)

Deer draw pressure1.6 tags/mi² public (0.17 of total area)

Pronghorn draw pressure0.14 tags/mi² public (0.015 of total area)

Walk-in access33,752 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,562 mi

Maintained trails0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road7,314 ac (11% of public)

Road density1.65 mi/mi²

Managed bySLB 60k ac · SFW 5k ac

Elevation3,450–4,370 ft

Median elevation3,840 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

3,450 ft4,370 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%

E 35%

S 7%

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

749 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 SIDNEY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, 60 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2024

33% success

5 taken by 15 hunters · 111 days afield

5 bulls (bulls only) · 0 calves

Elk hunter success · 2019–2024 · 0% → 33%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	3

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

Deer · 2024

34% success

160 taken by 476 hunters · 2,690 days afield

83 bucks · 71 does · 7 fawns

Deer hunter success · 2019–2024 · 52% → 34%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	9%	3	33
Muzzleloader	20%	2	10

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

Pronghorn · 2024

14% success

1 taken by 7 hunters · 13 days afield

1 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Pronghorn hunter success · 2019–2024 · 57% → 14%

Season breakdown · 2024

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	7
Muzzleloader	100%	2	2

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

Herd-level estimates · 95% CI

deer · DAU D-54 · 2025: 585 harvested (CI 542–630) · 40% success

elk · DAU E-99 · 2025: 384 harvested (CI 341–432) · 23% success

pronghorn · DAU A-4 · 2025: 58 harvested (CI 50–68) · 44% 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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