Colorado Elk Mule Deer Pronghorn Black Bear

Unit 11 (White River NF / New Castle)

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

Unit 11 lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties and covers about 609 square miles. Ground runs from 5,555 to 8,247 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 16%. Federal land covers about 62% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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5,822–7,722 ft

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Elk Hunting in Unit 11

Where to Find Elk in Unit 11

CPW's material on unit 11 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its elk live. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties. It runs to about 609 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 318, U.S. 40 and Moffat CR 57

CPW has unit 11 bounded on the north by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40; on the east by Moffat CR 57 and Rio Blanco CR 7; on the south by White River; on the west by Wolf Creek, Coal Creek, Winter Valley Gulch to Drill Hole to Elk Springs Ridge to mile marker 38.3 on U.S. 40, Twelvemile Gulch Rd., Yampa River and Little Snake River. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.

High ground inside the line: Gray Hills, Escarpment Peak and Citadel Plateau

Named high points inside the unit include Gray Hills at 8,247 feet, Escarpment Peak at 7,984 feet, Citadel Plateau at 7,954 feet, Colorow Mountain at 7,908 feet and Cross Mountain at 7,804 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.

Holding ground: Indian Springs Draw, Cabin Gulch and Devils Hole Gulch

Below them sit Indian Springs Draw at 6,532 feet, Cabin Gulch at 6,529 feet, Devils Hole Gulch at 6,473 feet, Swan Draw at 6,462 feet and Windy Gulch at 6,417 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Public ground to start from: Bitter Brush SWA, Cedar Springs STL and Citadel STL

CPW lists Bitter Brush SWA, Cedar Springs STL, Citadel STL, Coal Creek STL and Colorow Mountain SWA inside this unit as ground open to public hunting. Each property sets its own restrictions, and the agency's page for it is where they are written down. Federal land covers about 62% of the unit on top of those.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 51 mapped stream reaches, 17 lakes and 17 stock tanks. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

The herd this unit belongs to: E-6

CPW does not manage elk unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit E-6, and unit 11 is one piece of it. The rest of E-6 is unit 12, unit 13, unit 23, unit 24, unit 25, unit 26, unit 33 and unit 34 and 3 more. That matters twice over: the population objective and the licence numbers are set for the whole area, and the animals move across unit lines inside it without noticing them.

Unit 11 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,822–7,722 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,445 ft ; peaks can run higher.
609.1 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

17 tanks
51 stream segments
17 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: Gray Hills (8,247 ft), Escarpment Peak (7,984 ft), Citadel Plateau (7,954 ft), Colorow Mountain (7,908 ft)

Holding ground: Michaels Draw (6,343 ft), Winter Valley (6,277 ft), Hidden Valley (6,191 ft), Bitter Brush SWA, Cedar Springs STL

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 Elk in Unit 11

CPW's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 11 at archery 10%, muzzleloader 14% and rifle 16%. A number that low means most hunters here go home empty, and the ones who don't put the days in first. The plan: find the feed, find the timber it backs onto, then watch the seam between them at the edges of the day.

Glassing from Steamboat Rock, Wolf Mountain and Horse Ridge

Take a position on one of Steamboat Rock (7,469 ft), Wolf Mountain (7,435 ft), Horse Ridge (7,354 ft) and Black Mountain (7,188 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 51 mapped stream reaches and 17 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. A tank with no tracks is a tank with no reason to sit on it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 76/40°F, Oct 62/28°F and Nov 46/18°F. By Nov the lows are around 18°F, and the first hard storm after that moves animals off the high ground — a late tag is a bet on that storm arriving. Precipitation runs about 1.4 in. in Sep, 1.5 in. in Oct and 1.1 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: US 40 and CR 57

US 40, CO 64 and CO 318 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter. 2 mapped public entry points fall inside the unit, so decide which one you take before the morning you take it.

Where unit 11 sits inside E-6

Across E-6, CPW's 2023 elk success runs 27% in unit 13, 22% in unit 12, 19% in unit 131, 18% in unit 23 and 17% in unit 211. That puts unit 11 behind 5 of the 10 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 13 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Gray Hills, Escarpment Peak, Citadel Plateau and Colorow Mountain as places to see from, and Michaels Draw, Winter Valley, Hidden Valley and Bitter Brush SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

Getting in and staying out: unit 11

Named routes and what they need

US 40 — 17.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 57 — 11 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 64 — 9.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 7 — 6.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 318 — 6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 21S — 4.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Meeker — 24.6 mi · no services listed
Rangely — 33.9 mi · fuel
Craig — 38.7 mi · fuel, groceries
Rifle — 57.9 mi · fuel, gear
Baggs — 58.9 mi · no services listed

Season weather and signal

Jan32° / 6° · 1" precip
Aug84° / 48° · 1.1" precip
Sep76° / 40° · 1.4" precip
Oct62° / 28° · 1.5" precip
Nov46° / 18° · 1.1" precip
Dec34° / 7° · 1.1" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% 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 take16%

Archery10%

Muzzleloader14%

Rifle16%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 11 at 16% — 419 animals taken by 2,698 hunters. That is a lot of hunters in one unit, and the percentage is what it looks like after all of them have been through it.

Archery — 10% success, 37 taken by 360 hunters
Muzzleloader — 14% success, 11 taken by 76 hunters
Rifle — 16% success, 371 taken by 2,262 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
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (resident)	58	119	48.7%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	38	143	26.6%	1
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (resident)	15	57	26.3%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	33	51	64.7%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	118	184	64.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	355	531	66.9%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	3	59	5.1%	16
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (resident)	4	68	5.9%	9
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	100	403	24.8%	1
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	29	66	43.9%	2
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	744	1,498	49.7%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	341	872	39.1%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	70	175	40.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	43	97	44.3%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	178	329	54.1%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	108	165	65.5%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	216	435	49.7%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	92	199	46.2%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (resident)	352	515	68.3%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (nonresident)	276	389	71.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	9	57	15.8%	4
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	21	38	55.3%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	10	74	13.5%	4
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	20	35	57.1%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 6th Season cow only (resident)	27	48	56.3%	—
Rifle — 6th Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (resident)	966	2,225	43.4%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	1866	3,068	60.8%	—
Rifle — 4th Season bull only (resident)	96	213	45.1%	—
Rifle — 4th Season bull only (nonresident)	133	210	63.3%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (resident)	9	58	15.5%	3
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season bull only (resident)	310	777	39.9%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season bull only (nonresident)	696	1,088	64.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season bull only (resident)	224	571	39.2%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season bull only (nonresident)	408	692	59.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	76	111	68.5%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	494	718	68.8%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	418	701	59.6%	—

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 elk in unit 11, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

EM011O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Bull Only, nonresident: 3,068 applicants for 1,866 licences, 60.8% drawn, no preference points needed
EM011O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Bull Only, resident: 2,225 applicants for 966 licences, 43.4% drawn, no preference points needed
EF011O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Cow Only, resident: 1,498 applicants for 744 licences, 49.7% drawn, no preference points needed
EF011O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Cow Only, nonresident: 872 applicants for 341 licences, 39.1% 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 29 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 11

Unit 11 lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties and covers about 609 square miles. Ground runs from 5,555 to 8,247 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 47%. Federal land covers about 62% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 11

CPW draws an exact line around unit 11 and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties. It runs to about 609 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 318, U.S. 40 and Moffat CR 57

CPW has unit 11 bounded on the north by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40; on the east by Moffat CR 57 and Rio Blanco CR 7; on the south by White River; on the west by Wolf Creek, Coal Creek, Winter Valley Gulch to Drill Hole to Elk Springs Ridge to mile marker 38.3 on U.S. 40, Twelvemile Gulch Rd., Yampa River and Little Snake River. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.

High ground inside the line: Dick Ridge, Wapiti Peak and Elk Springs Ridge

Named high points inside the unit include Dick Ridge at 7,800 feet, Wapiti Peak at 7,684 feet, Elk Springs Ridge at 7,684 feet, Steamboat Rock at 7,469 feet and Wolf Mountain at 7,435 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.

Holding ground: Grassy Gulch, Michaels Draw and Winter Valley

Below them sit Grassy Gulch at 6,373 feet, Michaels Draw at 6,343 feet, Winter Valley at 6,277 feet, Oyler Gulch at 6,271 feet and Pine Tree Gulch at 6,235 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Public ground to start from: Crooked Wash Ranch SWA (Limited Access Easement), Cross Mountain STL and Douglas Mountain STL

CPW lists Crooked Wash Ranch SWA (Limited Access Easement), Cross Mountain STL, Douglas Mountain STL, Elk Springs #1 STL and Hightower STL inside this unit as ground open to public hunting. Each property sets its own restrictions, and the agency's page for it is where they are written down. Federal land covers about 62% of the unit on top of those.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 51 mapped stream reaches, 17 lakes and 17 stock tanks. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

The herd this unit belongs to: D-7

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-7, and unit 11 is one piece of it. The rest of D-7 is unit 12, unit 13, unit 22, unit 23, unit 24, unit 131, unit 211 and unit 231. So the objective behind your tag was written for that whole area, and a neighbouring unit in the same herd is a fairer comparison than the statewide figure.

Unit 11 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,822–7,722 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,445 ft ; peaks can run higher.
609.1 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

17 tanks
51 stream segments
17 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: Gray Hills (8,247 ft), Escarpment Peak (7,984 ft), Citadel Plateau (7,954 ft), Colorow Mountain (7,908 ft)

Holding ground: Michaels Draw (6,343 ft), Winter Valley (6,277 ft), Hidden Valley (6,191 ft), Bitter Brush SWA, Cedar Springs STL

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 11

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 11 at rifle 47%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Piñon Ridge, Strawberry Peak and Cedar Knob

Take a position on one of Piñon Ridge (6,904 ft), Strawberry Peak (6,833 ft), Cedar Knob (6,778 ft) and The Monument (6,560 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 51 mapped stream reaches and 17 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Check the ground around it before you commit an evening to it.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: US 40 and CR 57

Where unit 11 sits inside D-7

Across D-7, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 67% in unit 22, 51% in unit 211, 47% in unit 13, 44% in unit 11 and 30% in unit 12. That puts unit 11 behind 3 of the 7 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 22 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

A first plan from the pins on this page

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 11

Named routes and what they need

US 40 — 17.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 57 — 11 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 64 — 9.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 7 — 6.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 318 — 6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 21S — 4.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Meeker — 24.6 mi · no services listed
Rangely — 33.9 mi · fuel
Craig — 38.7 mi · fuel, groceries
Rifle — 57.9 mi · fuel, gear
Baggs — 58.9 mi · no services listed

Season weather and signal

Jan32° / 6° · 1" precip
Aug84° / 48° · 1.1" precip
Sep76° / 40° · 1.4" precip
Oct62° / 28° · 1.5" precip
Nov46° / 18° · 1.1" precip
Dec34° / 7° · 1.1" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% 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

All manners of take44%

Rifle47%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 11 at 44% — 238 animals taken by 537 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.

Rifle — 47% success, 225 taken by 484 hunters

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	140	278	50.4%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	54	212	25.5%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (resident)	96	161	59.6%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident)	207	267	77.5%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season either sex (resident)	127	230	55.2%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season either sex (nonresident)	247	323	76.5%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (resident)	15	40	37.5%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (nonresident)	36	44	81.8%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	1	29	3.4%	18
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (resident)	1	16	6.3%	12
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	74	192	38.5%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	7	17	41.2%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season doe only (resident)	64	344	18.6%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season doe only (nonresident)	6	40	15.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season doe only (resident)	20	39	51.3%	—
Rifle — 4th Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	1	5	20.0%	3
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	1	10	10.0%	3
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	218	537	40.6%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	180	429	42.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (resident)	387	827	46.8%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (nonresident)	136	704	19.3%	2
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (resident)	40	104	38.5%	1
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (nonresident)	15	117	12.8%	6
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	14	67	20.9%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	2	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	77	171	45.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	32	182	17.6%	1

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 11, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DM011O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Buck Only, resident: 827 applicants for 387 licences, 46.8% drawn, no preference points needed
DM011O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 704 applicants for 136 licences, 19.3% drawn, 2 preference points needed
DM011O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Buck Only, resident: 537 applicants for 218 licences, 40.6% drawn, no preference points needed
DM011O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 429 applicants for 180 licences, 42% 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 23 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 11

Unit 11 lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties and covers about 609 square miles. Ground runs from 5,555 to 8,247 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put pronghorn success here as high as 75%. Federal land covers about 62% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 11

CPW's material on unit 11 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its pronghorn live. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties. It runs to about 609 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 318, U.S. 40 and Moffat CR 57

CPW has unit 11 bounded on the north by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40; on the east by Moffat CR 57 and Rio Blanco CR 7; on the south by White River; on the west by Wolf Creek, Coal Creek, Winter Valley Gulch to Drill Hole to Elk Springs Ridge to mile marker 38.3 on U.S. 40, Twelvemile Gulch Rd., Yampa River and Little Snake River. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: Horse Ridge, Black Mountain and Piñon Ridge

Named high points inside the unit include Horse Ridge at 7,354 feet, Black Mountain at 7,188 feet, Piñon Ridge at 6,904 feet, Strawberry Peak at 6,833 feet and Cedar Knob at 6,778 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem.

Holding ground: Hidden Valley, Lion Canyon and Freeman Gulch

Below them sit Hidden Valley at 6,191 feet, Lion Canyon at 6,187 feet, Freeman Gulch at 6,178 feet, Jacobs Draw at 6,178 feet and East Tschuddi Gulch at 6,178 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Public ground to start from: Homestead STL, Lone Tree Gulch STL and Peck Mesa STL

CPW lists Homestead STL, Lone Tree Gulch STL, Peck Mesa STL, Pinon Ridge STL and Rio Blanco Lake SWA inside this unit as ground open to public hunting. Each property sets its own restrictions, and the agency's page for it is where they are written down. Federal land covers about 62% of the unit on top of those.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 51 mapped stream reaches, 17 lakes and 17 stock tanks. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

The herd this unit belongs to: A-10

CPW does not manage pronghorn unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit A-10, and unit 11 is one piece of it. CPW puts no other unit in A-10, so this unit carries the herd on its own. That matters twice over: the population objective and the licence numbers are set for the whole area, and the animals move across unit lines inside it without noticing them.

Unit 11 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,822–7,722 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,445 ft ; peaks can run higher.
609.1 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

17 tanks
51 stream segments
17 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: Gray Hills (8,247 ft), Escarpment Peak (7,984 ft), Citadel Plateau (7,954 ft), Colorow Mountain (7,908 ft)

Holding ground: Michaels Draw (6,343 ft), Winter Valley (6,277 ft), Hidden Valley (6,191 ft), Bitter Brush SWA, Cedar Springs STL

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 Pronghorn in Unit 11

CPW's own harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 11 at 75% across all manners of take. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: spot from a vehicle or a rise at distance, then plan a stalk that uses the only cover there is — the curve of the ground.

Glassing from Wild Horse Ridge, Buckskin Mesa and Buckskin Point

Take a position on one of Wild Horse Ridge (6,550 ft), Buckskin Mesa (6,496 ft), Buckskin Point (6,434 ft) and Peck Mesa (6,368 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: US 40 and CR 57

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Gray Hills, Escarpment Peak, Citadel Plateau and Colorow Mountain as places to see from, and Michaels Draw, Winter Valley, Hidden Valley and Bitter Brush SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What a day here costs you

609 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Meeker, about 25 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.

Getting in and staying out: unit 11

Named routes and what they need

US 40 — 17.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 57 — 11 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 64 — 9.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 7 — 6.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 318 — 6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 21S — 4.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Meeker — 24.6 mi · no services listed
Rangely — 33.9 mi · fuel
Craig — 38.7 mi · fuel, groceries
Rifle — 57.9 mi · fuel, gear
Baggs — 58.9 mi · no services listed

Season weather and signal

Jan32° / 6° · 1" precip
Aug84° / 48° · 1.1" precip
Sep76° / 40° · 1.4" precip
Oct62° / 28° · 1.5" precip
Nov46° / 18° · 1.1" precip
Dec34° / 7° · 1.1" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% 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 take75%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 11 at 75% — 26 animals taken by 34 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.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season doe only (resident)	5	23	21.7%	2
Archery — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season buck only (resident)	5	45	11.1%	10
Archery — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	0	20	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	4	30	13.3%	2
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	5	55	9.1%	9
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	0	25	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	6	265	2.3%	6
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	6	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	1	58	1.7%	6
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	20	543	3.7%	17
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	4	187	2.1%	19
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	1	43	2.3%	24
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—

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 pronghorn in unit 11, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AM011O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 543 applicants for 20 licences, 3.7% drawn, 17 preference points needed
AF011O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 265 applicants for 6 licences, 2.3% drawn, 6 preference points needed
AM011O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 187 applicants for 4 licences, 2.1% drawn, 19 preference points needed
AF011W2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Doe Only, resident: 58 applicants for 1 licences, 1.7% drawn, 6 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 8 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Black Bear Hunting in Unit 11

Unit 11 lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties and covers about 609 square miles. Ground runs from 5,555 to 8,247 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40 among others. CPW publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. Federal land covers about 62% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Black Bear in Unit 11

CPW draws an exact line around unit 11 and says nothing about where the black bear stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties. It runs to about 609 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 318, U.S. 40 and Moffat CR 57

CPW has unit 11 bounded on the north by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40; on the east by Moffat CR 57 and Rio Blanco CR 7; on the south by White River; on the west by Wolf Creek, Coal Creek, Winter Valley Gulch to Drill Hole to Elk Springs Ridge to mile marker 38.3 on U.S. 40, Twelvemile Gulch Rd., Yampa River and Little Snake River. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.

High ground inside the line: The Monument, Wild Horse Ridge and Buckskin Mesa

Named high points inside the unit include The Monument at 6,560 feet, Wild Horse Ridge at 6,550 feet, Buckskin Mesa at 6,496 feet, Buckskin Point at 6,434 feet and Peck Mesa at 6,368 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears on dry country work the drainages with fruit in them and little else.

Holding ground: Willow Gulch, Teds Gulch and West Tschuddi Gulch

Below them sit Willow Gulch at 6,176 feet, Teds Gulch at 6,139 feet, West Tschuddi Gulch at 6,083 feet, Pinto Gulch at 6,055 feet and Jordan Gulch at 6,054 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Public ground to start from: Ted's Canyon STL, Thornburg Draw STL and Triangle STL

CPW lists Ted's Canyon STL, Thornburg Draw STL, Triangle STL, Bitter Brush SWA and Cedar Springs STL inside this unit as ground open to public hunting. Each property sets its own restrictions, and the agency's page for it is where they are written down. Federal land covers about 62% of the unit on top of those.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 51 mapped stream reaches, 17 lakes and 17 stock tanks. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

The herd this unit belongs to: B-15

CPW does not manage black bear unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit B-15, and unit 11 is one piece of it. The rest of B-15 is unit 1, unit 2, unit 3, unit 10, unit 201, unit 211 and unit 301. That matters twice over: the population objective and the licence numbers are set for the whole area, and the animals move across unit lines inside it without noticing them.

Unit 11 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,822–7,722 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,445 ft ; peaks can run higher.
609.1 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

17 tanks
51 stream segments
17 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: Gray Hills (8,247 ft), Escarpment Peak (7,984 ft), Citadel Plateau (7,954 ft), Colorow Mountain (7,908 ft)

Holding ground: Michaels Draw (6,343 ft), Winter Valley (6,277 ft), Hidden Valley (6,191 ft), Bitter Brush SWA, Cedar Springs STL

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 Black Bear in Unit 11

CPW publishes no black bear success figure for unit 11 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: find the berry crop first, then glass it morning and evening until something is in it.

Glassing from Gray Hills, Escarpment Peak and Citadel Plateau

Take a position on one of Gray Hills (8,247 ft), Escarpment Peak (7,984 ft), Citadel Plateau (7,954 ft) and Colorow Mountain (7,908 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

Water against feed

There are 51 mapped stream reaches and 17 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Sitting water works where you can see fresh tracks going in, and nowhere else.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: US 40 and CR 57

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Gray Hills, Escarpment Peak, Citadel Plateau and Colorow Mountain as places to see from, and Michaels Draw, Winter Valley, Hidden Valley and Bitter Brush SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What a day here costs you

609 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The nearest services are at Meeker, about 25 miles out, which is an hour of your morning each way if you sleep there. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. Leave the truck earlier than you want to and you will hunt the best half-hour of the day.

Getting in and staying out: unit 11

Named routes and what they need

US 40 — 17.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 57 — 11 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 64 — 9.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 7 — 6.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 318 — 6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 21S — 4.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Meeker — 24.6 mi · no services listed
Rangely — 33.9 mi · fuel
Craig — 38.7 mi · fuel, groceries
Rifle — 57.9 mi · fuel, gear
Baggs — 58.9 mi · no services listed

Season weather and signal

Jan32° / 6° · 1" precip
Aug84° / 48° · 1.1" precip
Sep76° / 40° · 1.4" precip
Oct62° / 28° · 1.5" precip
Nov46° / 18° · 1.1" precip
Dec34° / 7° · 1.1" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 21% 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 11 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
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	1	347	0.3%	22
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—

Data from 2023 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

CPW's 2023 draw recap for black bear in unit 11, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

BE011W1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 347 applicants for 1 licences, 0.3% drawn, 22 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.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

No developed campground falls inside the unit in our data — plan on dispersed camping and check the land status first.

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Road Conditions

US 40, CR 57 and CO 64 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 50 mi paved, 11 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

5,822–7,722 ft, averaging 6,445. Gentle ground — distance rather than climbing is the day's cost.

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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 76/40°F, 1.4 in.; Oct 62/28°F, 1.5 in.; Nov 46/18°F, 1.1 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 21%, AT&T 14%, T-Mobile 7% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Meeker (25 mi), Rangely (34 mi), Craig (39 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 11?

Unit 11 lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, and CPW has it bounded on the north by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40; on the east by Moffat CR 57 and Rio Blanco CR 7; on the south by White River; on the west by Wolf Creek, Coal Creek, Winter Valley Gulch to Drill Hole to Elk Springs Ridge to mile marker 38.3 on U.S. 40, Twelvemile Gulch Rd., Yampa River and Little Snake River. It covers about 609 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit 11?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 11 at 16% across all manners of take, and archery 10%, muzzleloader 14% and rifle 16% 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 11 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 11 are at Meeker, about 25 miles from the unit's centre, with Rangely at about 34 miles. No developed campground falls inside the unit in our data, so plan on dispersed camping.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 11?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 11 at 44% across all manners of take, and rifle 47% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 11?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 11 at 75% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the black bear success rate in unit 11?

CPW publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit 11 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 11, 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 Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 11, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Pronghorn Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for pronghorn in unit 11, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22