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Unit 1 (Browns Park)

Colorado Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer, Pronghorn, Moose, Black Bear

Unit 1 is the far northwest corner of Colorado, in Moffat County, wrapped on the north, east and south by the Green River with Utah on the west. It's 127 square miles of river bottom, draws and benches, from about 5,070 to 8,854 feet. CPW publishes no per-unit elk breakdown here. Our read is that roughly 85% of the unit is private or other land, and that decides whether this tag is worth chasing.

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5,368–8,194 ft

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Elk Hunting in Unit 1

Where the Elk Are: Public Slivers in a Mostly Private Unit

Start with the hard fact. CPW's unit material gives only a boundary for Unit 1: the Green River on the north, east and south, and the Utah line on the west. It says nothing about where elk hold. Our terrain read puts about 15% of the unit in BLM and the other 85% in private or other ownership. You'll be hunting small public pieces surrounded by land you can't enter without permission.

Offield Mountain and Black Ridge

These are the high public ground we can name. Offield Mountain tops out around 8,168 feet, close to the unit's high point of 8,194. Black Ridge sits near 7,530. Both are BLM and both are glassing country, not places where we can promise elk. The unit's average elevation is about 7,000 feet, so the upper benches and ridges are where you'll spend most of your time. Nobody has counted elk for us up there. Glass first and confirm before you commit to a pack-in.

Yellow Jacket Draw and Hoy Draw

Both draws are public and run low, near 5,500 and 5,390 feet. They're the likeliest public cover down toward the river country, and our terrain read tags both as holding ground. Warren Bottom, a public river bend near 5,365 feet, is the travel corridor. Three named springs (Hoy Spring, Burnt Springs and Hackings Springs) are worth plotting before you go. We can't tell you which are on public ground, so check ownership on a map first.

Country to skip, and what's off the unit

Hoy Flat, Deerlick Draw, Craig Draw, Chokecherry Draw, Warren Draw and Davis Draw all read as private or non-public. So do the river bends at Flynn, Nelson and Allen Bottom. They look like elk country on a map, but unless you've secured permission, treat them as closed.

Diamond Mountain and Wild Mountain are the big names on the horizon, and both are higher than anything inside the unit. Our terrain read puts them outside the line. Use them as landmarks, not hunting spots.

Getting in

We found no named road crossing the boundary, so expect walk-in access or arrangements across private land. The nearest towns are Browns Park, Dutch John, Dinosaur and Naples. Plan your approach from a current map before you leave the pavement.

Unit 1 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

5,368–8,194 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,001 ft ; peaks can run higher.
127 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

19 tanks
21 stream segments
9 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Wild Mountain (8,854 ft), Diamond Mountain (8,575 ft), Offield Mountain (8,168 ft), Black Ridge (7,530 ft)

Holding ground: Yellow Jacket Draw (5,500 ft), Hoy Draw (5,391 ft), Browns Park STL, Pot Creek SWA (Limited Access Easement), Hoy Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Unit 1 Elk When Most of It Is Private

This is a permission-and-patience hunt. CPW lists this unit's elk herd as E-47, but the agency prints no harvest figures or per-unit elk narrative for us to lean on. We won't invent a success rate. Plan as if the odds are modest and the scouting does the work.

Secure access before you scout

With roughly 85% of the unit private or other land, the first job is the phone, not the glass. Work out who owns the draws and benches you want, then ask. Landowner permission could turn a few public slivers into a real hunt. Without it, you're confined to the BLM ground around Offield Mountain, Black Ridge, Yellow Jacket Draw, Hoy Draw and Warren Bottom. Confirm the exact boundaries before you take a step. The Green River is the unit line on three sides, and an animal on the far bank isn't yours.

Glass from Offield and Black Ridge

Offield Mountain and Black Ridge are our best glassing options. Get up early, sit above the benches and look down into the draws before first light, then again in the last hour of daylight. Cover the whole unit with optics before you cover any of it with boots. Hoy Draw and Yellow Jacket Draw are the public draws to pick apart. If elk are on private ground and stay there, you'll know quickly and can adjust.

Water and feed

Our terrain read counts 21 streams, 9 lakes and 19 tanks in the unit, plus the Green River itself. That's a lot of water for dry country, so water alone won't pin elk down. Treat Hoy Spring, Burnt Springs and Hackings Springs as places to look, not guarantees. Check each against ownership before you build a plan around it.

A realistic day

Expect to spend more time glassing than walking. Hike in dark, sit a ridge until the light is full, then slip down into the public draws if you see animals. Don't push through a boundary you haven't verified. Pack out light but carry plenty of water. For seasons, weapon rules and any unit-specific restrictions, read CPW's current brochure. We won't guess at them.

Getting in and staying out: unit 1

Nearest services

Browns Park — 16.5 mi · no services listed
Dutch John — 26.7 mi · no services listed
Dinosaur — 31.4 mi · groceries
Naples — 32.8 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Vernal — 33 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear

Developed camps

State Line River Camp
Pot Creek River Camp 1
Pot Creek River Camp 2
Wade and Curtis River Camp
Kolb River Camp

Season weather and signal

Jan37° / 11° · 0.6" precip
Aug88° / 52° · 1" precip
Sep79° / 44° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 33° · 1.3" precip
Nov49° / 23° · 0.5" precip
Dec37° / 13° · 0.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Colorado has no general off-road retrieval allowance. Travel stays on designated routes, so plan to pack every animal out on your back or with stock. Check the forest or BLM travel map for the roads that are actually open in hunting season.

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Elk: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

All manners of take38%

Archery50%

Muzzleloader33%

Rifle38%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 1 at 38% — 40 animals taken by 106 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

Archery — 50% success, 1 taken by 2 hunters
Muzzleloader — 33% success, 2 taken by 6 hunters
Rifle — 38% success, 37 taken by 98 hunters

These are the agency's own printed figures for this unit, not a modelled estimate and not a state average. They describe one season, so check CPW's current harvest estimates before you read a trend into them.

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	8	227	3.5%	20
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	1	284	0.4%	32
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	5	55	9.1%	1
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	1	6	16.7%	1
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	3	25	12.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	3	13	23.1%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	13	48	27.1%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	8	27	29.6%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	16	66	24.2%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	1	4	25.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	18	64	28.1%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	3	10	30.0%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (resident)	3	4	75.0%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (nonresident)	3	3	100.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	4	74	5.4%	18
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	1	130	0.8%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (resident)	1	10	10.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	0	4	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season bull only (resident)	4	43	9.3%	17
Muzzleloader — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	1	31	3.2%	26

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

CPW's 2026 draw recap for elk in unit 1, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

EE001E1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 284 applicants for 1 licences, 0.4% drawn, 32 preference points needed
EE001E1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 227 applicants for 8 licences, 3.5% drawn, 20 preference points needed
EE001O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 130 applicants for 1 licences, 0.8% drawn, no preference points needed
EE001O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 74 applicants for 4 licences, 5.4% drawn, 18 preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. There are 16 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 1

Unit 1 fills the far northwest corner of Colorado in Moffat County. It covers 127 square miles, with the Green River on the north, east and south and the Utah line on the west. CPW publishes no per-unit mule deer narrative for it. Our terrain read puts 85% of the ground in private or other ownership and only 15% in BLM, so the question that decides this tag is where you can legally stand.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 1: Public Ground on Offield Mountain, Black Ridge and the Lower Draws

CPW's unit material gives a boundary and nothing more for this one: bounded on the north, east and south by the Green River, and on the west by Utah. It doesn't say where the deer are, and we won't pretend it does. What follows comes from the terrain, the ownership split and the named features we can place in the unit.

Start with who owns the ground

Our ownership read shows 15% BLM and 85% private or other. That's a small slice of public land inside a small unit. "Other" can include land that isn't strictly private, but plan as if it is until your maps say otherwise. Relief runs from about 5,370 feet along the river to roughly 8,190 feet on the high ground, with a mean near 7,000. Most of your useful public acreage will be a handful of specific features. Find them before you leave home.

Offield Mountain and Black Ridge

Offield Mountain tops out at 8,168 feet, close to the unit's high point. Black Ridge runs at about 7,530 feet. Both sit on public land in our read, and both are glassing country. You can look down onto the benches and draws below instead of walking through them. We'd make these two your first look. If you can see the country from public ground, you can decide where to spend a day without crossing a fence line blind.

Yellow Jacket Draw, Hoy Draw and Warren Bottom

Lower down, the public pieces we can name are Yellow Jacket Draw (about 5,500 feet), Hoy Draw (about 5,390 feet) and Warren Bottom, a river bend near 5,365 feet. The draws read as holding country, the sort of cover where deer bed and feed. Warren Bottom reads as a travel route toward the river. Deer in a draw like this will usually be moving between bedding and feed at first and last light. That's a guess from the terrain, not a CPW statement. Late in the season, when snow pushes animals off the higher ground, these low public pieces are the likeliest to matter.

Country to skip

Several draws and bottoms in our read are not public: Hoy Flat (about 7,030 feet), Deerlick Draw, Craig Draw, Chokecherry Draw, Warren Draw, Davis Draw, and the river bends at Flynn, Nelson and Allen Bottoms. They look like deer country on a map. Don't treat them as hunting ground without landowner permission in hand.

Three springs are named in the unit: Hoy Spring, Burnt Springs and Hackings Springs. We can't tell you who owns the ground around them or whether they run in a dry fall. Check each one on a current ownership map before you plan a sit.

Unit 1 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

5,368–8,194 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,001 ft ; peaks can run higher.
127 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

19 tanks
21 stream segments
9 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Wild Mountain (8,854 ft), Diamond Mountain (8,575 ft), Offield Mountain (8,168 ft), Black Ridge (7,530 ft)

Holding ground: Yellow Jacket Draw (5,500 ft), Hoy Draw (5,391 ft), Browns Park STL, Pot Creek SWA (Limited Access Easement), Hoy Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 1: Sort Out Access, Then Glass From the High Public Ground

Solve access before you scout

Our terrain read finds no road crossing the unit boundary, and the edges are a river and a state line. Treat this as a walk-in unit until you've proven otherwise. Nearby towns are Browns Park, Dutch John, Dinosaur and Naples, so you'll be driving a long way for supplies. Work out your route to public ground ahead of time and carry maps that show BLM boundaries. With 85% of the unit in private or other ownership, a wrong turn puts you on someone else's land fast.

Glass from Offield Mountain and Black Ridge

Get up on Offield Mountain or Black Ridge well before first light. Mule deer feed early and late, and the lower draws are where you'll want to find them. Glass the heads of Yellow Jacket Draw and Hoy Draw first, then work down toward the river bottoms. Morning thermals generally pull air upslope and evening air drains back down, so plan your approach to keep the wind in your face. Don't hurry the glassing. This country is small, and a buck that's bedded in a draw won't show until the light changes.

Water and feed

Our terrain read picks up 21 streams, 9 lakes and 19 tanks in the unit. Nobody has counted which of those hold water in the fall, and we can't tell you which are on public ground. The Green River bottoms are the obvious reliable water. Most of that frontage looks to be private or other, so be sure of your boundary before you set up near it. Use the named springs only after checking ownership and condition.

A realistic day

Expect to spend the first and last hour glassing from the high public ground, and the middle of the day working a draw that you've confirmed is public. Pick a plan that keeps you inside the BLM pieces.

The bigger risk is retrieval. A deer that drops on public ground is fine. One that crosses onto private or other land is a problem you can't solve by walking in after it. Where possible, wait for a shot with the animal on your side of the line, and sort out permission in advance if you think a recovery could cross one. Pack everything out on foot. We'd rather you passed on a marginal shot than lost a good buck across a fence.

Getting in and staying out: unit 1

Nearest services

Browns Park — 16.5 mi · no services listed
Dutch John — 26.7 mi · no services listed
Dinosaur — 31.4 mi · groceries
Naples — 32.8 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Vernal — 33 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear

Developed camps

State Line River Camp
Pot Creek River Camp 1
Pot Creek River Camp 2
Wade and Curtis River Camp
Kolb River Camp

Season weather and signal

Jan37° / 11° · 0.6" precip
Aug88° / 52° · 1" precip
Sep79° / 44° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 33° · 1.3" precip
Nov49° / 23° · 0.5" precip
Dec37° / 13° · 0.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit 1 that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. CPW's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season buck only (resident)	1	17	5.9%	5
Archery — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	0	18	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	1	11	9.1%	4
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	0	15	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	6	28	21.4%	3
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	2	18	11.1%	15
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (resident)	4	42	9.5%	7
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (nonresident)	1	45	2.2%	20

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

CPW's 2026 draw recap for mule deer in unit 1, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DM001O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 45 applicants for 1 licences, 2.2% drawn, 20 preference points needed
DM001O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Buck Only, resident: 42 applicants for 4 licences, 9.5% drawn, 7 preference points needed
DM001O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Buck Only, resident: 28 applicants for 6 licences, 21.4% drawn, 3 preference points needed
DM001O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 18 applicants for 0 licences, 0% drawn, no preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. There are 4 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 1

Unit 1 is Browns Park, the far northwest corner of Colorado in Moffat County, 127 square miles framed by the Green River on the north, east and south and by Utah on the west. CPW publishes no per-unit pronghorn breakdown, so we're working from terrain. The deciding fact is ownership: about 85% is private or other, and only 15% is BLM. Get landowner permission lined up before you count on this tag.

Green River Bottoms, Open Draws and the 15% That's Public

CPW's unit material gives us a boundary and nothing about where pronghorn actually sit. The boundary reads: bounded on the north, east and south by the Green River, and on the west by Utah. That's a legal description of the edges, not a statement that animals live on them. Everything below is our terrain read, not agency counts.

Start with the public ground

Only about 15% of the unit is BLM. Three named features sit on public land, and they're where we'd put boots first. Yellow Jacket Draw (about 5,500 feet) and Hoy Draw (about 5,390 feet) are the two public draws. Warren Bottom, down at roughly 5,365 feet on the river, is public too. Draws like these funnel animals between feed and water. The bottom is more of a travel corridor than a place to camp on a herd.

The private country around them

Most of the open ground that looks like pronghorn habitat isn't yours to walk. Hoy Flat (about 7,030 feet) is the high flat in the unit, and it's private. So are Deerlick Draw and Craig Draw on the upper benches, around 6,800 to 6,900 feet. Down low, Chokecherry Draw, Warren Draw and Davis Draw are private, along with the river bends at Flynn, Nelson and Allen Bottom. A public draw that dead-ends into a private flat is a boundary you can't cross.

Elevation and glassing points

The unit runs from 5,070 to 8,854 feet, with a mean near 7,000. That means the bulk of it sits on benches, not down on the river. Offield Mountain (8,168 feet) and Black Ridge (7,530 feet) are the glassing points on public ground. Both give you height over the surrounding benches. Diamond Mountain and Wild Mountain are higher than anything inside the unit's elevation range. Treat them as landmarks nearby, not hunting spots.

Water

Our terrain read shows 21 streams, 9 lakes and 19 stock tanks. Nobody has told us which tanks hold water in a dry year. Three named springs sit in the unit: Hoy Spring, Burnt Springs and Hackings Springs. We don't have their ownership or exact spots, so check them on a map before you commit a day.

Access is the other catch. Our read finds no road crossing the unit boundary, and the river wraps three sides. Confirm your route with CPW and the landowners before you leave town. Nearby towns are Browns Park, Dutch John, Dinosaur and Naples.

Unit 1 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

5,368–8,194 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,001 ft ; peaks can run higher.
127 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

19 tanks
21 stream segments
9 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Wild Mountain (8,854 ft), Diamond Mountain (8,575 ft), Offield Mountain (8,168 ft), Black Ridge (7,530 ft)

Holding ground: Yellow Jacket Draw (5,500 ft), Hoy Draw (5,391 ft), Browns Park STL, Pot Creek SWA (Limited Access Easement), Hoy Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

Hunting a Mostly Private Unit: Permission First, Then Glass

This isn't a drive-and-spot unit. With 85% private or other ground and no road crossing the boundary on our read, the hunt is won before opening morning. We can't give you a harvest figure, because none came with the unit. Plan for a slow, quiet hunt in small public pockets.

Sort permission before you pack

Start with landowners around Hoy Flat, Deerlick Draw and Craig Draw. The high benches there are the biggest open ground in the unit, and they're private. Ask early and be specific: dates, number of hunters, how you'll retrieve an animal. One yes on a flat is worth more than a week on the 15% that's public. If you don't get one, the hunt narrows to the BLM draws and the river bottom.

Glass from Offield and Black Ridge

On public ground, climb Offield Mountain or Black Ridge before first light. Pronghorn move early and bed in open country, so glass the benches and draw mouths in the first two hours. Then glass again in late afternoon. Mark where animals feed and which draws they cross, and note whether they're on public or private ground. A herd that feeds on private and crosses Hoy Draw to water is a different hunt from one that never leaves the flat.

Hunt the public draws and water

Work Yellow Jacket Draw and Hoy Draw from the downwind side, and keep to the draw bottoms where you can. Pronghorn watch the skyline and spook at movement, so a silhouette on the rim ends the stalk. Water matters most late in a dry season. If you find a tank or spring on BLM, sit it with optics rather than walking up to it, and check Hoy Spring, Burnt Springs and Hackings Springs on a map first. Bowhunters will want a water setup. Rifle hunters need the long, patient glass, since a shot across a draw is common in this country.

A realistic day

Up before light, on a glassing point by sunrise, then a decision: stalk what's on public ground or move on. Most days you'll spot animals you can't legally reach. That's the unit. Know your boundaries, carry a map that shows ownership, and don't push an animal over a fence line to chase it. Retrieval can be harder than the shot, so know your route out before you pull the trigger.

Getting in and staying out: unit 1

Nearest services

Browns Park — 16.5 mi · no services listed
Dutch John — 26.7 mi · no services listed
Dinosaur — 31.4 mi · groceries
Naples — 32.8 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Vernal — 33 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear

Developed camps

State Line River Camp
Pot Creek River Camp 1
Pot Creek River Camp 2
Wade and Curtis River Camp
Kolb River Camp

Season weather and signal

Jan37° / 11° · 0.6" precip
Aug88° / 52° · 1" precip
Sep79° / 44° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 33° · 1.3" precip
Nov49° / 23° · 0.5" precip
Dec37° / 13° · 0.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Pronghorn: where to put the shot

Broadside, straight up the front leg, a third of the way into the body. Pronghorn are shallow-chested and the lungs sit forward.

Shots to refuse

Range it, then range it again. Open country makes 400 yards look like 250.
Wait for the buck to stop. Nobody kills a running pronghorn cleanly on purpose.
Mind the backdrop. A miss carries a long way across a flat.

Plan the carry: roughly 30– 45 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — one large cooler with ice already in it. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Pronghorn Success Rates

All manners of take100%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 1 at 100% — 2 animals taken by 2 hunters. On a sample that small the percentage moves several points with one animal, so read the hunter count beside it.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	7	26	26.9%	1
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	1	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	7	61	11.5%	18
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	1	42	2.4%	21

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for pronghorn in unit 1, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AM001O1M — Muzzleloader, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 61 applicants for 7 licences, 11.5% drawn, 18 preference points needed
AM001O1M — Muzzleloader, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 42 applicants for 1 licences, 2.4% drawn, 21 preference points needed
AF001O1M — Muzzleloader, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 26 applicants for 7 licences, 26.9% drawn, 1 preference point needed
AF001O1M — Muzzleloader, 1st Season, Doe Only, nonresident: 1 applicants for 0 licences, 0% drawn, no preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Moose Hunting in Unit 1

Unit 1 is Colorado's far northwest corner, all Moffat County, a 127-square-mile block framed by the Green River on the north, east and south and the Utah line on the west. CPW publishes no per-unit moose breakdown, so this is a terrain read. The deciding fact is ownership: about 85% is private or non-BLM, and BLM holds roughly 15%. Know where you can legally stand before you plan anything else.

Where the moose are likely to be in Unit 1, and how little of it you can walk

CPW's unit material gives this one a boundary and a herd code (M-10) but no moose narrative. Nobody has told us where the animals sit, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we do have is the shape of the ground. The unit runs from about 5,368 feet at river level to 8,194 feet on the high ground, with a mean near 7,000.

The most important number is ownership. Roughly 85% of the unit is private or otherwise not BLM, and about 15% is BLM. Our terrain read also found no drivable road crossing the boundary, so expect to walk in. Sort out landowner permission before you spend a dollar on travel.

The Green River bends: Warren, Flynn, Nelson and Allen Bottoms

The river frames the unit on three sides, and the bends along it sit around 5,356 to 5,371 feet. Shiras moose are a willow-and-water animal, so we'd start our scouting here. That's a judgment from the terrain, not a count. Warren Bottom is the one flagged as public land. Flynn, Nelson and Allen Bottoms are private by our read, so treat them as places to ask permission, not places to walk into.

Yellow Jacket Draw and Hoy Draw

Yellow Jacket Draw (about 5,500 feet) and Hoy Draw (about 5,391 feet) are the public-land drainages that run down toward the low country. They're your best chance at moving moose and finding sign on ground you can legally hunt. Walk them from the low end up and look for willow, wet pockets and fresh tracks. Three springs are named in the area, Hoy Spring, Burnt Springs and Hackings Springs. We can't tell you exactly where they sit or who owns the ground around them, so check each against a current ownership map.

Higher ground: Offield Mountain and Black Ridge

Offield Mountain (8,168 feet) and Black Ridge (7,530 feet) are public and read as glassing country rather than moose country. Use them to look down into the draws and bottoms. Diamond Mountain (8,575) tops out above the unit's highest point, so it's a neighbor, not a place to hunt. Wild Mountain is in Uintah County, outside this unit entirely.

What to skip

The benches and draws up high, Hoy Flat (about 7,029 feet), Deerlick Draw and Craig Draw, are private by our read. Chokecherry, Warren and Davis Draws are also private, even though they run down near river level. Don't build a plan around any of them without a landowner's okay.

Unit 1 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

5,368–8,194 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,001 ft ; peaks can run higher.
127 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

19 tanks
21 stream segments
9 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Wild Mountain (8,854 ft), Diamond Mountain (8,575 ft), Offield Mountain (8,168 ft), Black Ridge (7,530 ft)

Holding ground: Yellow Jacket Draw (5,500 ft), Hoy Draw (5,391 ft), Browns Park STL, Pot Creek SWA (Limited Access Easement), Hoy Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to hunt Unit 1 moose on a small public footprint

Hunt this unit as a permission-and-patience tag. With 85% of the ground private or non-BLM, the work starts at the phone, not at the trailhead. The agency material doesn't give a success rate for the unit, so we won't offer one.

Start with the paperwork

Get a current ownership map and mark the BLM pieces. Then call landowners along the river bends before the season, not the week of. Ask about access to the bottoms. If you can get onto Flynn, Nelson or Allen Bottom, you've probably solved most of the unit. If you can't, Warren Bottom and the two public draws are your hunt.

Glass from Offield and Black Ridge, then drop in

Put your first mornings on Offield Mountain or Black Ridge. Glass the draw heads and the river corridor as light comes up, and again in the last hour of the evening. Moose in open sage country stand out against the dark willows. If you spot one on public ground, plan the stalk from below so the wind stays in your face. If you spot one on private ground, you've learned where to ask.

Work Yellow Jacket and Hoy Draws slowly

These are small, steep-sided drainages. Move up them in short stretches and stop often. Look for tracks and browsed willow before you look for the animal. Check wet spots near the springs, but don't assume they hold water in a dry fall. Our count found no springs on the layer we use, even though three are named on the map.

Plan the pack-out before you shoot

With no drivable boundary access, a downed moose means a long carry, probably across country where you need permission to cross. Settle the retrieval route with the landowner before the season starts. Bring enough help and game bags to quarter it and move it in stages.

A realistic day

Up before light, glass from the ridge, then drop to the draws by mid-morning. Midday, rest and glass from shade. Evening, back to the bends if you've got access. Some days you'll see nothing. This is a quiet, low-density unit and the best plan is to cover the public pieces thoroughly.

Getting in and staying out: unit 1

Nearest services

Browns Park — 16.5 mi · no services listed
Dutch John — 26.7 mi · no services listed
Dinosaur — 31.4 mi · groceries
Naples — 32.8 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Vernal — 33 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear

Developed camps

State Line River Camp
Pot Creek River Camp 1
Pot Creek River Camp 2
Wade and Curtis River Camp
Kolb River Camp

Season weather and signal

Jan37° / 11° · 0.6" precip
Aug88° / 52° · 1" precip
Sep79° / 44° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 33° · 1.3" precip
Nov49° / 23° · 0.5" precip
Dec37° / 13° · 0.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Moose: where to put the shot

Broadside, behind the shoulder and a third up. Moose look slow to react — the first shot has to count.

Shots to refuse

Where it falls decides your next two days. Avoid shots that drop a moose in water or a bog.
A .30-06 class cartridge minimum, with a bullet built for heavy bone.

Plan the carry: roughly 350– 500 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — four or more large coolers, or a processor. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Moose Success Rates

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates carry no Shiras moose row for unit 1 that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. CPW's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.

Moose Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Any Legal Method — 1st Season either sex (resident)	1	186	0.5%	3
Any Legal Method — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for Shiras moose in unit 1, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

ME001O1X — Any Legal Method, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 186 applicants for 1 licences, 0.5% drawn, 3 preference points needed

Black Bear Hunting in Unit 1

Unit 1 is the far northwest corner of Colorado, in Moffat County, on the Utah line. The Green River wraps its north, east and south sides. It's 127 square miles of low, dry country running from about 5,070 to 8,854 feet. CPW publishes no per-unit bear breakdown, and 85 percent of the ground is private or otherwise not BLM. Access decides whether this tag is worth your time.

Finding Bear on a Unit That's 85 Percent Private

Start with the hard fact. Only about 15 percent of Unit 1 is BLM. The other 85 percent is private or otherwise not open public land. CPW's unit material for this unit gives a boundary description and nothing on where bears live, so nobody has handed us a bear map. What follows comes from our terrain read: landforms, elevation, water and who owns what.

How the unit sits on the map

CPW describes the unit as bounded on the north, east and south by the Green River, and on the west by Utah. That's 127 square miles, with a low point near 5,368 feet at the river and a high point near 8,194 feet. The mean is about 7,000. We can't find a road that crosses the boundary, so treat this as a walk-in or river-access unit until you've confirmed otherwise. Call CPW and the BLM before you commit to a route. The nearest towns are Browns Park, Dutch John, Dinosaur and Naples.

Offield Mountain and Black Ridge

These are your high ground. Offield Mountain tops out at 8,168 feet, close to the unit's high point, and Black Ridge runs at about 7,530. Both are public and both are good glassing ground. We'd start here because the public ground is limited, and elevation gives you the longest views over the draws below. Wild Mountain (8,854) and Diamond Mountain (8,575) are higher than anything inside the unit. Use them as landmarks on the skyline, not as places to hunt.

Yellow Jacket Draw, Hoy Draw and Warren Bottom

These are the public low-country pieces. Yellow Jacket Draw sits near 5,500 feet and Hoy Draw near 5,391. Warren Bottom is a river bend at 5,365. The draws are the kind of cover bears use to move between the ridges and the river. The bottoms are travel country along the Green. If you're hunting public ground in the low end, this is where you'll spend your time. Don't expect much elbow room, though. It's a thin slice.

Private ground to leave alone

Several good-looking features aren't public: Hoy Flat (7,029), Deerlick Draw (6,866), Craig Draw (6,822), Chokecherry Draw, Warren Draw, Davis Draw, and the Flynn, Nelson and Allen bottoms. Don't set a plan around any of them without landowner permission. Water is plentiful on paper, with 21 streams, 9 lakes and 19 tanks. Hoy Spring, Burnt Springs and Hackings Springs are named too. We can't say which of those sit on public ground, so check ownership on a current map before you build a hunt around one.

Unit 1 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

5,368–8,194 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 7,001 ft ; peaks can run higher.
127 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

BLM — 15%
Private / Other — 85%

Roughly 15% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

19 tanks
21 stream segments
9 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Wild Mountain (8,854 ft), Diamond Mountain (8,575 ft), Offield Mountain (8,168 ft), Black Ridge (7,530 ft)

Holding ground: Yellow Jacket Draw (5,500 ft), Hoy Draw (5,391 ft), Browns Park STL, Pot Creek SWA (Limited Access Easement), Hoy Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

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Hunting Unit 1 Bear: Glass the Ridges, Work the Draws

With so little public ground, this is a hunt you win on preparation. Walk-in access and a small BLM footprint reward the hunter who has already worked out where he can legally stand. CPW publishes no season dates or harvest numbers in its unit material for this unit, so pull the current brochure for dates and legal methods before you finalize anything.

Glass from Offield Mountain and Black Ridge

Get up high before first light and stay through the first couple of hours. Open slopes below the ridges give you the best chance of picking out a dark shape at distance. Then glass again from mid-afternoon until dark. Midday, bears generally bed in cover, so don't burn your legs. In country this dry and low, our opinion is that water and the cover near it will pull more bears than any single ridge. Watch the drainages feeding down toward Yellow Jacket Draw and Hoy Draw.

Work the public draws quietly

Yellow Jacket Draw and Hoy Draw are the public draws we'd walk. Move with the wind in your face and expect swirling air near the bottoms. Morning thermals generally drift downslope and afternoon thermals drift up. Plan your approaches so you're not pushing scent ahead of you into the cover. Stop often and glass. A bear in a draw can be 80 yards away before you see it.

Water, springs and tanks

Pick a water source you've confirmed is on public ground, then sit it. We can't tell you that Hoy Spring, Burnt Springs or Hackings Springs are public, so check them first. A small tank or a spring in dry country draws bears, and a morning or evening sit gets you a look without covering miles. Look for fresh sign before you commit a whole day.

Beating the access problem

This isn't a drive-and-glass unit. With the Green River on three sides and Utah on the west, getting in is the first problem. Sort out how you're crossing or entering before you leave home. Scout the boundary in advance, and ask CPW and the BLM about legal routes. If you want private ground, get permission early. Landowners in the bottoms and flats know where bears travel. A realistic day here is an early climb to glass, a slow midday move through a public draw, and an evening sit at confirmed public water. Pack out a bear on your back, not a truck.

Getting in and staying out: unit 1

Nearest services

Browns Park — 16.5 mi · no services listed
Dutch John — 26.7 mi · no services listed
Dinosaur — 31.4 mi · groceries
Naples — 32.8 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Vernal — 33 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear

Developed camps

State Line River Camp
Pot Creek River Camp 1
Pot Creek River Camp 2
Wade and Curtis River Camp
Kolb River Camp

Season weather and signal

Jan37° / 11° · 0.6" precip
Aug88° / 52° · 1" precip
Sep79° / 44° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 33° · 1.3" precip
Nov49° / 23° · 0.5" precip
Dec37° / 13° · 0.5" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 15% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Colorado rules that decide your day

Summarised from CPW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Validate and attach your carcass tag before the animal is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached until the carcass reaches your home or a processor.

Leaving meat

Abandoning edible meat is illegal. CPW counts the four quarters and the loins.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 50 yards of a developed campsite, and never toward an occupied building.
Roads — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting from a motor vehicle.

Black Bear: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Black Bear Success Rates

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit 1 that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. CPW's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.

Black Bear Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	4	4	100.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	1	2	50.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (resident)	1	1	100.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	1	1	100.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	4	13	30.8%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	1	10	10.0%	1
Rifle — 5th Season either sex (resident)	4	8	50.0%	—
Rifle — 5th Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—

Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for black bear in unit 1, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

BE001O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 13 applicants for 4 licences, 30.8% drawn, no preference points needed
BE001O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 10 applicants for 1 licences, 10% drawn, 1 preference point needed
BE001O5R — Rifle, 5th Season, Either Sex, resident: 8 applicants for 4 licences, 50% drawn, no preference points needed
BE001O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 4 applicants for 4 licences, 100% drawn, no preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. There are 3 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

8 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including State Line River Camp, Pot Creek River Camp 1 and Pot Creek River Camp 2.

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Road Conditions

Roughly 0 mi paved, 0 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

5,368–8,194 ft, averaging 7,001. Enough relief to separate summer from winter range.

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Hunting Pressure

Our land-status read for this unit is approximate, so treat any pressure estimate from it with suspicion and check a current ownership layer.

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Weather

Season normals: Sep 79/44°F, 1.3 in.; Oct 64/33°F, 1.3 in.; Nov 49/23°F, 0.5 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 15%, AT&T 10%, T-Mobile 5% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Browns Park (17 mi), Dutch John (27 mi), Dinosaur (31 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 1?

Unit 1 lies in Moffat County, and CPW has it bounded on N, E and S by Green River; on the west by UT. It covers about 127 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit 1?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 1 at 38% across all manners of take, and archery 50%, muzzleloader 33% and rifle 38% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit 1 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 1 are at Browns Park, about 17 miles from the unit's centre, with Dutch John at about 27 miles. There are also 8 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 1?

CPW publishes no mule deer success figure we can tie to unit 1 on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check CPW's current harvest estimates before you apply.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 1?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 1 at 100% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit 1?

CPW publishes no Shiras moose success figure we can tie to unit 1 on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check CPW's current harvest estimates before you apply.

What is the black bear success rate in unit 1?

CPW publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit 1 on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check CPW's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-23.

Colorado Big Game Hunting Brochure — Game Management Unit (GMU) Descriptions (pp. 79-80-81-82) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, Data analysis unit (DAU) the unit belongs to · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Elk Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for elk in unit 1, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
CPW CPWAdminData feature service — GMU and sheep/goat unit boundaries — Colorado Parks and Wildlife GIS Unit · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Pronghorn Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for pronghorn in unit 1, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22