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GMU 46 — New Mexico

1% public hunting land across 807,732 ac. Road access is easy — only 7% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 751 ac of public land has no public route in.

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6,220–11,040 ft

elevation range

public hunting land

of public >1 mi from a road

751 ac

landlocked public

1.47

road miles per mi²

1 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Tags: check New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.

No draw hunts are published for this gmu. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in New Mexico Department of Game and Fish's regulations.

Plus: New Mexico Game-Hunting Licence$25.00 resident · $90.00 nonresident

Season dates: see New Mexico Department of Game and Fish's regulations

NMDGF — Draw Hunt License Fees (2026-2027) ↗

NMDGF — Draw Hunt License Fees (2026-2027) ↗How the New Mexico draw works →

Fees and draw dates from New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, 2026, verified 2026-08-15 — 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: NMDGF — Draw Hunt License Fees (2026-2027) · NMDGF — Big-game and draw hunts (fee collection and refunds).

Land & access

■ Wildlife refuge 1%■ Forest Service 0%■ State trust 0%▨ Parks & other public 1%□ Private 98%

Unit area807,732 ac

Public hunting land7,217 ac (1%)

Parks & other public8,690 ac · State parks, National Park Service

Landlocked public751 ac (10.4%)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,858 mi

Mapped trails on public land1 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road504 ac (7% of public)

Road density1.47 mi/mi²

Managed byWildlife refuge 4k ac · Forest Service 2k ac · State trust 1k ac

Elevation6,220–11,040 ft

Median elevation7,240 ft

Median slope4°

Where the ground sits

6,220 ft11,040 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 20%

E 32%

S 24%

W 24%

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 →

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176,238 ac of this gmu has burned — 22% 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 LAS VEGAS MUNICIPAL ARPT, 29 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

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 →

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