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Unit research · Washington GMU 203

Pasayten — Washington

100% public across 518,639 ac. Real backcountry here — 98% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. No landlocked public land.

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2,050–8,840 ft

elevation range

100%

public land

98%

of public >1 mi from a road

0 ac

landlocked public

0.00

road miles per mi²

532 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Tags: check Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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

Plus: Washington big game hunting licence$61.70 resident · $599.07 nonresident

Season dates: see Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's regulations

WDFW — Big game hunting licences and tags (2026)

Fees and draw dates from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 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: WDFW — Big game hunting licences and tags (2026) · WDFW — Special hunt permits.

Land & access

USFS 100%NPS 0%□ Private 0%
Unit area518,639 ac
Public land518,551 ac (100%)
Landlocked public0 ac (0.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)0 mi
Maintained trails532 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road508,800 ac (98% of public)
Road density0.00 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 518k ac · NPS 0k ac
Elevation2,050–8,840 ft
Median elevation6,000 ft
Median slope24°

Where the ground sits

2,050 ft8,840 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%
E 27%
S 23%
W 29%

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

257,583 ac of this gmu has burned — 50% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 23%. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · general season

4.1% success

11 taken by 271 hunters

Deer hunter success · 2018–2025 · 7% → 4%

Season breakdown · 2025
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Muzzleloader0%014

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

Elk · 2025 · general season

0% success

0 taken by 11 hunters

Elk hunter success · 2018–2025 · 0% → 0%

Season breakdown · 2025
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery0%04
Muzzleloader0%02

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

Black bear · 2025 · general season

5.1% success

5 taken by 99 hunters

Black bear hunter success · 2013–2025 · 5% → 5%

Harvest estimates from WDFW's hunter reports, published per GAME MANAGEMENT UNIT as HTML tables — the only state we carry that publishes harvest as structured markup rather than as a PDF whose layout has to be recovered from whitespace. Success rates are WDFW's own and are carried verbatim. METHOD IS THE VARIANT. Archery, Modern Firearm and Muzzleloader are separate seasons with separate tags in Washington, so a hunter appears in exactly one and the 'all' row is their sum. "Multiple Weapons" is its own tag type rather than a total, and is carried as its own variant. ⚠️ TWO TABLE SHAPES. Deer and elk put the GMU in the table's caption with one row per method beneath; black bear puts the GMU in the row's first cell with no method column. WDFW also upper-cases unit names in the deer and elk reports ("101 - SHERMAN") and title-cases them in the bear reports ("501 - Lincoln") — an uppercase-only pattern reads deer and elk perfectly and silently skips every bear table. General-season reports only. WDFW's special-permit tables carry harvest by point class but no hunter count and no success rate, so they cannot be turned into a rate and are not ingested; the general-season tables cover the same units. Deer and elk carry eight seasons and black bear thirteen — the older deer and elk reports use a layout this reader does not handle and are omitted whole rather than in part. Source: WDFW Game Harvest Reports (per GMU, per season).

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)

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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