Colorado Elk Mule Deer Pronghorn

Unit 211 (Piceance Creek / Rifle)

Colorado Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer, Pronghorn

Unit 211 lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties and covers about 432 square miles. Ground runs from 6,003 to 8,673 feet. CPW bounds it by U.S. 40 and Yampa River among others. CPW's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 31%. Federal land covers about 38% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Elk Hunting in Unit 211

Where to Find Elk in Unit 211

What CPW publishes for unit 211 is a boundary, not a elk map. 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 Moffat and Rio Blanco counties. It runs to about 432 square miles.

The lines of the unit: U.S. 40, Yampa River and Colo. 13

CPW has unit 211 bounded on the north by U.S. 40 and Yampa River; on the east by Colo. 13; on the south by Colo. 13 and Colo. 64; on the west by Rio Blanco CR 7 and Moffat CR 57. 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: Devils Hole Mountain, Coal Butte and Danforth Hills

Named high points inside the unit include Devils Hole Mountain at 8,673 feet, Coal Butte at 8,483 feet, Danforth Hills at 8,325 feet, Coal Mountain at 8,317 feet and Clinker Knob at 8,095 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: Straight Gulch, Red Rock Canyon and East Fork Morgan Gulch

Below them sit Straight Gulch at 7,110 feet, Red Rock Canyon at 7,064 feet, East Fork Morgan Gulch at 7,063 feet, Gower Gulch at 7,005 feet and Deer Canyon at 6,962 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Public ground to start from: Axial Basin SWA, Ben Morgan Canyon STL and Box Elder North STL

CPW lists Axial Basin SWA, Ben Morgan Canyon STL, Box Elder North STL, Box Elder STL and Jubb Creek 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 38% of the unit on top of those.

Water: Post Oak Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 52 mapped stream reaches, 10 lakes, 21 stock tanks and 3 springs. Named sources include Post Oak 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-6

CPW does not manage elk unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit E-6, and unit 211 is one piece of it. The rest of E-6 is unit 11, unit 12, unit 13, unit 23, unit 24, unit 25, unit 26 and unit 33 and 3 more. 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 211 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

6,003–8,118 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,927 ft ; peaks can run higher.
431.5 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

Private / Other — 100%

Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

21 tanks
3 springs
52 stream segments
10 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: Devils Hole Mountain (8,673 ft), Danforth Hills (8,325 ft), Old Baldy (8,028 ft), Juniper Mountain (7,871 ft)

Holding ground: Ben Morgan Canyon (6,274 ft), Post Oak Draw (6,120 ft), Boxelder Gulch (6,043 ft), Axial Basin SWA, Ben Morgan Canyon 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 211

CPW's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 211 at archery 16%, muzzleloader 31% and rifle 17%. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. 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 Maggies Nipple, Mount Streeter and Duffy Mountain

Take a position on one of Maggies Nipple (7,414 ft), Mount Streeter (7,119 ft), Duffy Mountain (7,082 ft) and White Rock (6,889 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. Give a basin forty minutes before you decide it is empty. 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 52 mapped stream reaches and 21 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

Season normals here run Sep 76/38°F, Oct 62/27°F and Nov 47/17°F. By Nov the lows are around 17°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 1.5 in. in Sep, 1.5 in. in Oct and 1.2 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: CO 13 and CR 7

CO 13 and CO 64 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. One mapped public entry point falls inside the unit, so decide which one you take before the morning you take it.

Where unit 211 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 211 behind 4 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 Devils Hole Mountain, Danforth Hills, Old Baldy and Juniper Mountain as places to see from, and Ben Morgan Canyon, Post Oak Draw, Boxelder Gulch and Axial Basin SWA as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

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 211

Named routes and what they need

CO 13 — 21.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 7 — 8.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CR 57 — 8.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Lions Canyon Road — 3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 53 — 2.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 64 — 1 mi · Paved (all rigs)

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 — 18.1 mi · no services listed
Craig — 24.7 mi · fuel, groceries
Hayden — 37.3 mi · fuel
Rifle — 53.3 mi · fuel, gear
Silt — 53.7 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Meeker RV Park
Meeker Trails
Meeker Area

Season weather and signal

Jan33° / 5° · 1" precip
Aug84° / 47° · 1.2" precip
Sep76° / 38° · 1.5" precip
Oct62° / 27° · 1.5" precip
Nov47° / 17° · 1.2" precip
Dec35° / 7° · 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 take17%

Archery16%

Muzzleloader31%

Rifle17%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 211 at 17% — 367 animals taken by 2,193 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 — 16% success, 65 taken by 417 hunters
Muzzleloader — 31% success, 19 taken by 63 hunters
Rifle — 17% success, 283 taken by 1,714 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	127	6.3%	20
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	7	153	4.6%	4
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	1	8	12.5%	4
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	56	162	34.6%	3
Rifle — 1st Season cow 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 elk in unit 211, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

EF211W1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Cow Only, resident: 162 applicants for 56 licences, 34.6% drawn, 3 preference points needed
EF211L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Cow Only, resident: 153 applicants for 7 licences, 4.6% drawn, 4 preference points needed
EE211W1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 127 applicants for 8 licences, 6.3% drawn, 20 preference points needed
EF211L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Cow Only, nonresident: 8 applicants for 1 licences, 12.5% drawn, 4 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.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 211

Unit 211 lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties and covers about 432 square miles. Ground runs from 6,003 to 8,673 feet. CPW bounds it by U.S. 40 and Yampa River among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 53%. Federal land covers about 38% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 211

CPW draws an exact line around unit 211 and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. 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 432 square miles.

The lines of the unit: U.S. 40, Yampa River and Colo. 13

CPW has unit 211 bounded on the north by U.S. 40 and Yampa River; on the east by Colo. 13; on the south by Colo. 13 and Colo. 64; on the west by Rio Blanco CR 7 and Moffat CR 57. 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: Old Baldy, Juniper Mountain and Iles Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Old Baldy at 8,028 feet, Juniper Mountain at 7,871 feet, Iles Mountain at 7,530 feet, Maggies Nipple at 7,414 feet and Mount Streeter at 7,119 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: Bitter Spring Gulch, Hurst Gulch and Dickman Draw

Below them sit Bitter Spring Gulch at 6,911 feet, Hurst Gulch at 6,858 feet, Dickman Draw at 6,810 feet, Goff Camp Gulch at 6,753 feet and Ryan Gulch at 6,742 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Public ground to start from: Morgan Gulch STL, Pine Tree Gulch STL and Rattlesnake Hill STL

CPW lists Morgan Gulch STL, Pine Tree Gulch STL, Rattlesnake Hill STL, South Duffy Mountain STL and Temple Canyon 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 38% of the unit on top of those.

Water: Post Oak Spring

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 211 is one piece of it. The rest of D-7 is unit 11, unit 12, unit 13, unit 22, unit 23, unit 24, unit 131 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 211 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

6,003–8,118 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,927 ft ; peaks can run higher.
431.5 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

Private / Other — 100%

Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

21 tanks
3 springs
52 stream segments
10 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: Devils Hole Mountain (8,673 ft), Danforth Hills (8,325 ft), Old Baldy (8,028 ft), Juniper Mountain (7,871 ft)

Holding ground: Ben Morgan Canyon (6,274 ft), Post Oak Draw (6,120 ft), Boxelder Gulch (6,043 ft), Axial Basin SWA, Ben Morgan Canyon 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 211

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 211 at archery 0% and rifle 53%. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: glass the broken edges at first light, then sit still and keep glassing the same ground.

Glassing from Signal Butte, Devils Hole Mountain and Coal Butte

Take a position on one of Signal Butte (6,516 ft), Devils Hole Mountain (8,673 ft), Coal Butte (8,483 ft) and Danforth Hills (8,325 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-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 52 mapped stream reaches and 21 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: CO 13 and CR 7

Where unit 211 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 211 behind 1 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

The map above marks Devils Hole Mountain, Danforth Hills, Old Baldy and Juniper Mountain as places to see from, and Ben Morgan Canyon, Post Oak Draw, Boxelder Gulch and Axial Basin 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.

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 211

Named routes and what they need

CO 13 — 21.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 7 — 8.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CR 57 — 8.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Lions Canyon Road — 3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 53 — 2.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 64 — 1 mi · Paved (all rigs)

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 — 18.1 mi · no services listed
Craig — 24.7 mi · fuel, groceries
Hayden — 37.3 mi · fuel
Rifle — 53.3 mi · fuel, gear
Silt — 53.7 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Meeker RV Park
Meeker Trails
Meeker Area

Season weather and signal

Jan33° / 5° · 1" precip
Aug84° / 47° · 1.2" precip
Sep76° / 38° · 1.5" precip
Oct62° / 27° · 1.5" precip
Nov47° / 17° · 1.2" precip
Dec35° / 7° · 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 take51%

Archery0%

Rifle53%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 211 at 51% — 280 animals taken by 546 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 — 0% success, 0 taken by 12 hunters
Rifle — 53% success, 280 taken by 523 hunters

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	3	76	3.9%	18
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season doe only (resident)	13	24	54.2%	—
Rifle — 4th Season doe only (nonresident)	7	7	100.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	4	22	18.2%	1
Rifle — 1st Season doe 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 mule deer in unit 211, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DE211W1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 76 applicants for 3 licences, 3.9% drawn, 18 preference points needed
DF211S4R — Rifle, 4th Season, Doe Only, resident: 24 applicants for 13 licences, 54.2% drawn, no preference points needed
DF211W1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 22 applicants for 4 licences, 18.2% drawn, 1 preference point needed
DF211S4R — Rifle, 4th Season, Doe Only, nonresident: 7 applicants for 7 licences, 100% drawn, no preference points needed

Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 211

Unit 211 lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties and covers about 432 square miles. Ground runs from 6,003 to 8,673 feet. CPW bounds it by U.S. 40 and Yampa River among others. CPW publishes no per-unit pronghorn success figure we can verify for this unit. Federal land covers about 38% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 211

What CPW publishes for unit 211 is a boundary, not a pronghorn map. 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 432 square miles.

The lines of the unit: U.S. 40, Yampa River and Colo. 13

CPW has unit 211 bounded on the north by U.S. 40 and Yampa River; on the east by Colo. 13; on the south by Colo. 13 and Colo. 64; on the west by Rio Blanco CR 7 and Moffat CR 57. 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: Duffy Mountain, White Rock and Signal Butte

Named high points inside the unit include Duffy Mountain at 7,082 feet, White Rock at 6,889 feet, Signal Butte at 6,516 feet, Devils Hole Mountain at 8,673 feet and Coal Butte at 8,483 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: Red Littleton Canyon, Temple Canyon and Straight Gulch

Below them sit Red Littleton Canyon at 6,735 feet, Temple Canyon at 6,646 feet, Straight Gulch at 6,618 feet, Axial Basin at 6,611 feet and Little Collom Gulch at 6,533 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Public ground to start from: Axial Basin SWA, Ben Morgan Canyon STL and Box Elder North STL

Water: Post Oak Spring

The herd this unit belongs to: A-34

CPW does not manage pronghorn unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit A-34, and unit 211 is one piece of it. The rest of A-34 is unit 12 and unit 23. 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.

Reading the land status

Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. A grid sample of the unit reads 6,003 to 8,118 feet, and named ground inside the line runs 5,921 to 8,673 feet — take 6,003 to 8,673 as the spread, because the sample is a grid and walks past summits. With 2,670 feet between the two ends, there is enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit 211 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

6,003–8,118 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,927 ft ; peaks can run higher.
431.5 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

Private / Other — 100%

Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

21 tanks
3 springs
52 stream segments
10 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: Devils Hole Mountain (8,673 ft), Danforth Hills (8,325 ft), Old Baldy (8,028 ft), Juniper Mountain (7,871 ft)

Holding ground: Ben Morgan Canyon (6,274 ft), Post Oak Draw (6,120 ft), Boxelder Gulch (6,043 ft), Axial Basin SWA, Ben Morgan Canyon 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 211

CPW publishes no pronghorn success figure for unit 211 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. 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 Coal Mountain, Clinker Knob and Old Baldy

Take a position on one of Coal Mountain (8,317 ft), Clinker Knob (8,095 ft), Old Baldy (8,028 ft) and Juniper Mountain (7,871 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. 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

There are 52 mapped stream reaches and 21 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

Getting past the roads: CO 13 and CR 7

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Devils Hole Mountain, Danforth Hills, Old Baldy and Juniper Mountain as places to see from, and Ben Morgan Canyon, Post Oak Draw, Boxelder Gulch and Axial Basin 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.

What a day here costs you

432 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 18 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.

Getting in and staying out: unit 211

Named routes and what they need

CO 13 — 21.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 7 — 8.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CR 57 — 8.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
Lions Canyon Road — 3 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 53 — 2.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 64 — 1 mi · Paved (all rigs)

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 — 18.1 mi · no services listed
Craig — 24.7 mi · fuel, groceries
Hayden — 37.3 mi · fuel
Rifle — 53.3 mi · fuel, gear
Silt — 53.7 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Meeker RV Park
Meeker Trails
Meeker Area

Season weather and signal

Jan33° / 5° · 1" precip
Aug84° / 47° · 1.2" precip
Sep76° / 38° · 1.5" precip
Oct62° / 27° · 1.5" precip
Nov47° / 17° · 1.2" precip
Dec35° / 7° · 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

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates carry no pronghorn row for unit 211 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.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	1	69	1.4%	24
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	3	17	17.6%	5
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (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 pronghorn in unit 211, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AE211W1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 69 applicants for 1 licences, 1.4% drawn, 24 preference points needed
AF211W1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 17 applicants for 3 licences, 17.6% drawn, 5 preference points needed

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

3 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Meeker RV Park, Meeker Trails and Meeker Area.

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Road Conditions

CO 13, CR 7 and CR 57 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 39 mi paved, 11 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

6,003–8,118 ft, averaging 6,927. 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 76/38°F, 1.5 in.; Oct 62/27°F, 1.5 in.; Nov 47/17°F, 1.2 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 (18 mi), Craig (25 mi), Hayden (37 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 211?

Unit 211 lies in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, and CPW has it bounded on the north by U.S. 40 and Yampa River; on the east by Colo. 13; on the south by Colo. 13 and Colo. 64; on the west by Rio Blanco CR 7 and Moffat CR 57. It covers about 432 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit 211?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 211 at 17% across all manners of take, and archery 16%, muzzleloader 31% and rifle 17% 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 211 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 211 are at Meeker, about 18 miles from the unit's centre, with Craig at about 25 miles. There are also 3 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 211?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 211 at 51% across all manners of take, and archery 0% and rifle 53% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 211?

CPW publishes no pronghorn success figure we can tie to unit 211 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 211, 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 211, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22