Colorado Elk Mule Deer Moose

Unit 14

Colorado Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer, Moose

Unit 14 lies in Routt and Grand counties. CPW bounds it by Little Snake-Elk River divide and Continental Divide among others. CPW's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 9%. Federal land covers about 85% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Elk Hunting in Unit 14

Where to Find Elk in Unit 14

What CPW publishes for unit 14 is a boundary, not a elk map. 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 Routt and Grand counties.

The lines of the unit: Little Snake-Elk River divide, Continental Divide and U.S. 40

CPW has unit 14 bounded on the north by Little Snake-Elk River divide; on the east by Continental Divide; on the south by U.S. 40; on the west by U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Park Range, Mount Zirkel and Sawtooth Range

Named high points inside the unit include Park Range at 12,145 feet, Mount Zirkel at 12,145 feet, Sawtooth Range at 12,022 feet, Big Agnes Mountain at 12,001 feet and The Dome at 11,718 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Elk want timber to bed in and open ground to feed on, within a short walk of each other.

Holding ground: Horse Thief Park, Diamond Park and Summit Park

Below them sit Horse Thief Park at 9,736 feet, Diamond Park at 8,731 feet, Summit Park at 8,663 feet, Bear Canyon at 8,342 feet and Long Draw at 8,334 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Public ground to start from: Moonhill STL

CPW lists Moonhill 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 85% of the unit on top of those.

Water: Routt Hot Springs, Heart Spring and Fish Creek Falls

Named sources include Routt Hot Springs, Heart Spring, Fish Creek Falls and Hott Spring. 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-2

CPW does not manage elk unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit E-2, and unit 14 is one piece of it. The rest of E-2 is unit 3, unit 4, unit 5, unit 214, unit 301 and unit 441. 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 14 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Park Range (12,145 ft), Sawtooth Range (12,022 ft), The Dome (11,718 ft), Buck Mountain (11,390 ft)

Holding ground: Ute Pass (10,983 ft), Wolverine Basin (10,572 ft), Mica Basin (10,466 ft), Moonhill STL, Routt Hot Springs

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 14

CPW's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 14 at archery 5%, muzzleloader 9% and rifle 7%. 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 Farwell Mountain, Hahns Peak and Soda Mountain

Take a position on one of Farwell Mountain (10,846 ft), Hahns Peak (10,821 ft), Soda Mountain (10,808 ft) and Mount Werner (10,566 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, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Where unit 14 sits inside E-2

Across E-2, CPW's 2023 elk success runs 32% in unit 5, 32% in unit 441, 26% in unit 214, 21% in unit 4 and 9% in unit 3. Unit 14 is the lowest of them, so whatever drives success in this herd is happening somewhere else in it. If the draw lets you choose, unit 5 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

The way in: U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones CPW draws the boundary with: U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Check each of them on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a line on a boundary description is not a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Park Range, Sawtooth Range, The Dome and Buck Mountain as places to see from, and Ute Pass, Wolverine Basin, Mica Basin and Moonhill STL 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

409 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

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.

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 take6%

Archery5%

Muzzleloader9%

Rifle7%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 14 at 6% — 113 animals taken by 2,038 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 — 5% success, 64 taken by 1,375 hunters
Muzzleloader — 9% success, 9 taken by 99 hunters
Rifle — 7% success, 41 taken by 564 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)	81	146	55.5%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	104	173	60.1%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (resident)	18	73	24.7%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	6	34	17.6%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	36	144	25.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	6	51	11.8%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	56	136	41.2%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	9	23	39.1%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (resident)	49	82	59.8%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (nonresident)	7	10	70.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (resident)	90	226	39.8%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	30	163	18.4%	1
Rifle — 4th Season bull only (resident)	28	57	49.1%	—
Rifle — 4th Season bull only (nonresident)	17	36	47.2%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	23	90	25.6%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	5	19	26.3%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	10	26	38.5%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	5	10	50.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	450	741	60.7%	—

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

EE014V1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 741 applicants for 450 licences, 60.7% drawn, no preference points needed
EM014O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Bull Only, resident: 226 applicants for 90 licences, 39.8% drawn, no preference points needed
EE014O1M — Muzzleloader, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 173 applicants for 104 licences, 60.1% drawn, no preference points needed
EM014O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Bull Only, nonresident: 163 applicants for 30 licences, 18.4% drawn, 1 preference point 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 15 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 14

Unit 14 lies in Routt and Grand counties. CPW bounds it by Little Snake-Elk River divide and Continental Divide among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 19%. Federal land covers about 85% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 14

CPW draws an exact line around unit 14 and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Routt and Grand counties.

The lines of the unit: Little Snake-Elk River divide, Continental Divide and U.S. 40

CPW has unit 14 bounded on the north by Little Snake-Elk River divide; on the east by Continental Divide; on the south by U.S. 40; on the west by U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Little Agnes Mountain, Buck Mountain and Horse Thief Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Little Agnes Mountain at 11,474 feet, Buck Mountain at 11,390 feet, Horse Thief Peak at 10,878 feet, Farwell Mountain at 10,846 feet and Hahns Peak at 10,821 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.

Holding ground: Red Dirt Pass, Hinman Canyon and Hole-in-Wall Canyon

Below them sit Red Dirt Pass at 8,298 feet, Hinman Canyon at 8,191 feet, Hole-in-Wall Canyon at 8,046 feet, Box Canyon at 7,887 feet and Boulder Park at 7,806 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Public ground to start from: Moonhill STL

Water: Routt Hot Springs, Heart Spring and Fish Creek Falls

Named sources include Routt Hot Springs, Heart Spring, Fish Creek Falls and Hott Spring. 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-2

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-2, and unit 14 is one piece of it. The rest of D-2 is unit 3, unit 4, unit 5, unit 214, unit 301 and unit 441. Read a neighbour in the same herd before you read the state average — the herd, not the unit line, is what the agency is steering.

Unit 14 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Park Range (12,145 ft), Sawtooth Range (12,022 ft), The Dome (11,718 ft), Buck Mountain (11,390 ft)

Holding ground: Ute Pass (10,983 ft), Wolverine Basin (10,572 ft), Mica Basin (10,466 ft), Moonhill STL, Routt Hot Springs

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 14

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 14 at archery 19% and rifle 5%. A number that low means most hunters here go home empty, and the ones who don't put the days in first. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Buffalo Mountain, Burn Ridge and Little Mountain

Take a position on one of Buffalo Mountain (10,389 ft), Burn Ridge (9,839 ft), Little Mountain (9,488 ft) and Floyd Peak (9,420 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. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Where unit 14 sits inside D-2

Across D-2, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 47% in unit 4, 45% in unit 301, 39% in unit 3, 38% in unit 5 and 36% in unit 441. Unit 14 is the lowest of them, so whatever drives success in this herd is happening somewhere else in it. If the draw lets you choose, unit 4 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

The way in: U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones CPW draws the boundary with: U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Pick the edge nearest the country you mean to hunt and work in from it on foot, rather than driving the perimeter looking for a way through.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Park Range, Sawtooth Range, The Dome and Buck Mountain as places to see from, and Ute Pass, Wolverine Basin, Mica Basin and Moonhill STL 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.

What a day here costs you

409 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. 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.

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.

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 take14%

Archery19%

Rifle5%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 14 at 14% — 25 animals taken by 173 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 — 19% success, 22 taken by 117 hunters
Rifle — 5% success, 2 taken by 54 hunters

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	33	193	17.1%	3
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	11	80	13.8%	5

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 mule deer in unit 14, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DM014E1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 193 applicants for 33 licences, 17.1% drawn, 3 preference points needed
DM014E1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 80 applicants for 11 licences, 13.8% drawn, 5 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 14

Unit 14 lies in Routt and Grand counties. CPW bounds it by Little Snake-Elk River divide and Continental Divide among others. CPW's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 81%. Federal land covers about 85% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 14

CPW draws an exact line around unit 14 and says nothing about where the Shiras moose stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Routt and Grand counties.

The lines of the unit: Little Snake-Elk River divide, Continental Divide and U.S. 40

CPW has unit 14 bounded on the north by Little Snake-Elk River divide; on the east by Continental Divide; on the south by U.S. 40; on the west by U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Soda Mountain, Mount Werner and Buffalo Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Soda Mountain at 10,808 feet, Mount Werner at 10,566 feet, Buffalo Mountain at 10,389 feet, Burn Ridge at 9,839 feet and Little Mountain at 9,488 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.

Holding ground: Hinman Park, Willow Creek Canyon and Impassable Canyon

Below them sit Hinman Park at 7,698 feet, Willow Creek Canyon at 7,446 feet, Impassable Canyon at 7,233 feet, Taylor Canyon at 7,102 feet and Strawberry Park at 6,995 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Public ground to start from: Moonhill STL

Water: Routt Hot Springs, Heart Spring and Fish Creek Falls

Named sources include Routt Hot Springs, Heart Spring, Fish Creek Falls and Hott Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

The herd this unit belongs to: M-9

CPW does not manage Shiras moose unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit M-9, and unit 14 is one piece of it. The rest of M-9 is unit 4, unit 5, unit 214 and unit 441. 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 14 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Park Range (12,145 ft), Sawtooth Range (12,022 ft), The Dome (11,718 ft), Buck Mountain (11,390 ft)

Holding ground: Ute Pass (10,983 ft), Wolverine Basin (10,572 ft), Mica Basin (10,466 ft), Moonhill STL, Routt Hot Springs

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 Shiras Moose in Unit 14

CPW's own harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 14 at 81% across all manners of take. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: walk the willow bottoms slowly at first and last light and look for fresh browse before you look for the animal.

Glassing from Beryl Mountain, Grouse Mountain and Anderson Mountain

Take a position on one of Beryl Mountain (9,312 ft), Grouse Mountain (9,290 ft), Anderson Mountain (9,244 ft) and Rocky Peak (9,195 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. 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, late September bulls answer a cow call near water.

Where unit 14 sits inside M-9

Across M-9, CPW's 2023 Shiras moose success runs 81% in unit 14 and 0% in unit 4. Unit 14 is the best of them on that measure, which usually means fewer tags rather than more animals. Success inside one herd moves with tag numbers and season length as much as with animals, so read the licence count alongside it.

The way in: U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones CPW draws the boundary with: U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Pick the edge nearest the country you mean to hunt and work in from it on foot, rather than driving the perimeter looking for a way through.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Park Range, Sawtooth Range, The Dome and Buck Mountain as places to see from, and Ute Pass, Wolverine Basin, Mica Basin and Moonhill STL 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.

What a day here costs you

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.

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.

Moose Success Rates

All manners of take81%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 14 at 81% — 26 animals taken by 32 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.

Moose Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season cow only (resident)	19	251	7.6%	3
Archery — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	3	39	7.7%	3
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (resident)	9	795	1.1%	3
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	2	722	0.3%	3

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

MF014O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Cow Only, resident: 251 applicants for 19 licences, 7.6% drawn, 3 preference points needed
MF014O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Cow Only, nonresident: 39 applicants for 3 licences, 7.7% drawn, 3 preference points needed

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 14?

Unit 14 lies in Routt and Grand counties, and CPW has it bounded on the north by Little Snake-Elk River divide; on the east by Continental Divide; on the south by U.S. 40; on the west by U.S. 40 and Routt CR 129.

What is the elk success rate in unit 14?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 14 at 6% across all manners of take, and archery 5%, muzzleloader 9% and rifle 7% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 14?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 14 at 14% across all manners of take, and archery 19% and rifle 5% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit 14?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 14 at 81% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

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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 14, 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 14, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Moose Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for Shiras moose in unit 14, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22