Colorado Mule Deer Elk

Unit 391

Colorado Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Elk

Unit 391 lies in Jefferson County and covers about 277 square miles. Ground runs from 5,190 to 9,121 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 470 and CR 12 (Deer Creek Canyon) among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 39%. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 391

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 391

CPW's material on unit 391 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mule deer 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 Jefferson County. It runs to about 277 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 470, CR 12 (Deer Creek Canyon) and U.S. 285

CPW has unit 391 bounded on the north by I-70; on the east by I-25; on the south by Colo. 470, CRs 12 (Deer Creek Canyon) & 122 (South Turkey Creek) and U.S. 285; on the west by CR 73 and Colo. 74. (See unit 39.). 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: Berrian Mountain, Doublehead Mountain and Bear Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Berrian Mountain at 9,121 feet, Doublehead Mountain at 8,905 feet, Bear Mountain at 8,604 feet, Independence Mountain at 8,356 feet and Genesee Mountain at 8,264 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.

Holding ground: Iowa Gulch, Myers Gulch and Mica Mine Gulch

Below them sit Iowa Gulch at 6,949 feet, Myers Gulch at 6,816 feet, Mica Mine Gulch at 6,783 feet, Watson Gulch at 6,766 feet and Parmalee Gulch at 6,742 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.

Water in this unit

The water inside the unit line comes to 987 mapped stream reaches, 69 lakes, 581 stock tanks and 1 springs. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.

The herd this unit belongs to: D-17

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-17, and unit 391 is one piece of it. The rest of D-17 is unit 39, unit 46, unit 51 and unit 461. 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.

Before you apply: who owns this unit

CPW marks this unit: landowner permission is advisable before applying. Most land is private. 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 5,309 to 8,272 feet, and named ground inside the line runs 5,190 to 9,121 feet — take 5,190 to 9,121 as the spread, because the sample is a grid and misses both ends. With 3,931 feet between the two ends, there is enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit 391 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,309–8,272 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,202 ft ; peaks can run higher.
277.4 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

581 tanks
1 springs
987 stream segments
69 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: Berrian Mountain (9,121 ft), Bear Mountain (8,604 ft), Genesee Mountain (8,264 ft)

Holding ground: Dix Saddle (7,486 ft), Rossman Gulch (7,363 ft)

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 391

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 391 at archery 13% and rifle 39%. 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 Mount Falcon, Mount Lindo and Lininger Mountain

Take a position on one of Mount Falcon (7,841 ft), Mount Lindo (7,795 ft), Lininger Mountain (7,732 ft) and Deer Mountain (7,283 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. 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.

Water against feed

There are 987 mapped stream reaches and 581 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

Season normals here run Sep 78/49°F, Oct 64/37°F and Nov 53/28°F. Warm afternoons compress the hunting into the first and last hour, and make meat care the day's real problem rather than the shot. Precipitation runs about 1.3 in. in Sep, 1.1 in. in Oct and 0.8 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: I 70 and I 25

I 70, I 25 and US 285 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.

Where unit 391 sits inside D-17

Across D-17, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 58% in unit 51, 46% in unit 461, 36% in unit 391, 29% in unit 46 and 26% in unit 39. That puts unit 391 behind 2 of the 4 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 51 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 Berrian Mountain, Bear Mountain and Genesee Mountain as places to see from, and Dix Saddle, Rossman Gulch, CO 470 @ unit boundary and I 70 @ unit boundary 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 a day here costs you

277 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 Morrison, about 4 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. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

Getting in and staying out: unit 391

Named routes and what they need

I 70 — 10.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 25 — 7.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 285 — 5.8 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 470 — 5.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CH 124 — 4.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CH 73 — 4.3 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

Morrison — 3.8 mi · fuel, groceries
Bow Mar — 4 mi · fuel, groceries, gear
Lakewood — 4.7 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Sheridan — 5.1 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Columbine Valley — 5.7 mi · fuel, groceries, gear

Developed camps

Private Owner
Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site
Chief Hosa Campground
Flying Saucer RV Park

Season weather and signal

Jan46° / 20° · 0.5" precip
Aug85° / 58° · 1.9" precip
Sep78° / 49° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 37° · 1.1" precip
Nov53° / 28° · 0.8" precip
Dec45° / 20° · 0.6" 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.

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 take36%

Archery13%

Rifle39%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 391 at 36% — 104 animals taken by 290 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 — 13% success, 4 taken by 30 hunters
Rifle — 39% success, 98 taken by 253 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.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	71	90	78.9%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	4	4	100.0%	—
Rifle — 5th Season doe only (resident)	81	225	36.0%	—
Rifle — 5th Season doe only (nonresident)	1	3	33.3%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	7	32	21.9%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	1	1	100.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (resident)	9	37	24.3%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (resident)	8	43	18.6%	—
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (nonresident)	1	3	33.3%	—
Rifle — 5th Season buck only (resident)	225	372	60.5%	—
Rifle — 5th Season buck only (nonresident)	7	8	87.5%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	6	12	50.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	3	4	75.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	1	5	20.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 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 mule deer in unit 391, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DM391P5R — Rifle, 5th Season, Buck Only, resident: 372 applicants for 225 licences, 60.5% drawn, no preference points needed
DF391P5R — Rifle, 5th Season, Doe Only, resident: 225 applicants for 81 licences, 36% drawn, no preference points needed
DE391O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 90 applicants for 71 licences, 78.9% drawn, no preference points needed
DM391O4R — Rifle, 4th Season, Buck Only, resident: 43 applicants for 8 licences, 18.6% drawn, no preference points needed

No preference points were needed for the codes above in that year, which can change the moment applicant numbers do. There are 10 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Elk Hunting in Unit 391

Unit 391 lies in Jefferson County and covers about 277 square miles. Ground runs from 5,190 to 9,121 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 470 and CR 12 (Deer Creek Canyon) among others. CPW's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 39%. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Elk in Unit 391

CPW draws an exact line around unit 391 and says nothing about where the elk stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Jefferson County. It runs to about 277 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 470, CR 12 (Deer Creek Canyon) and U.S. 285

CPW has unit 391 bounded on the north by I-70; on the east by I-25; on the south by Colo. 470, CRs 12 (Deer Creek Canyon) & 122 (South Turkey Creek) and U.S. 285; on the west by CR 73 and Colo. 74. (See unit 39.). 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: Lone Peak, Kinney Peak and Mount Morrison

Named high points inside the unit include Lone Peak at 8,257 feet, Kinney Peak at 8,001 feet, Mount Morrison at 7,872 feet, Mount Falcon at 7,841 feet and Mount Lindo at 7,795 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.

Holding ground: Swede Gulch, Cold Spring Gulch and Devils Gulch

Below them sit Swede Gulch at 6,740 feet, Cold Spring Gulch at 6,661 feet, Devils Gulch at 6,457 feet, Sawmill Gulch at 6,450 feet and Mount Vernon Canyon at 6,343 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water in this unit

The herd this unit belongs to: E-39

CPW does not manage elk unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit E-39, and unit 391 is one piece of it. The rest of E-39 is unit 39, unit 46 and unit 461. 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.

Before you apply: who owns this unit

Unit 391 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

5,309–8,272 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,202 ft ; peaks can run higher.
277.4 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

581 tanks
1 springs
987 stream segments
69 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: Berrian Mountain (9,121 ft), Bear Mountain (8,604 ft), Genesee Mountain (8,264 ft)

Holding ground: Dix Saddle (7,486 ft), Rossman Gulch (7,363 ft)

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 391

CPW's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 391 at archery 39% and rifle 37%. 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 Green Mountain, Hogback and Dinosaur Ridge

Take a position on one of Green Mountain (6,855 ft), Hogback (6,638 ft), Dinosaur Ridge (6,638 ft) and Creation Rock (6,603 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.

Water against feed

There are 987 mapped stream reaches and 581 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: I 70 and I 25

Where unit 391 sits inside E-39

Across E-39, CPW's 2023 elk success runs 38% in unit 391, 27% in unit 39, 14% in unit 46 and 12% in unit 461. Unit 391 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.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Berrian Mountain, Bear Mountain and Genesee Mountain as places to see from, and Dix Saddle, Rossman Gulch, CO 470 @ unit boundary and I 70 @ unit boundary 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 we can't tell you

CPW marks this unit: landowner permission is advisable before applying. Most land is private. Settle access before the season rather than during it. 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 391

Named routes and what they need

I 70 — 10.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
I 25 — 7.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 285 — 5.8 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 470 — 5.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CH 124 — 4.5 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CH 73 — 4.3 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

Morrison — 3.8 mi · fuel, groceries
Bow Mar — 4 mi · fuel, groceries, gear
Lakewood — 4.7 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Sheridan — 5.1 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Columbine Valley — 5.7 mi · fuel, groceries, gear

Developed camps

Private Owner
Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site
Chief Hosa Campground
Flying Saucer RV Park

Season weather and signal

Jan46° / 20° · 0.5" precip
Aug85° / 58° · 1.9" precip
Sep78° / 49° · 1.3" precip
Oct64° / 37° · 1.1" precip
Nov53° / 28° · 0.8" precip
Dec45° / 20° · 0.6" 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.

Elk: where to put the shot

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

Shots to refuse

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

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

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

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Elk Success Rates

All manners of take38%

Archery39%

Rifle37%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 391 at 38% — 81 animals taken by 214 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 — 39% success, 12 taken by 30 hunters
Rifle — 37% success, 63 taken by 173 hunters

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	18	21	85.7%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	5	8	62.5%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (resident)	134	250	53.6%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (nonresident)	3	4	75.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (resident)	7	19	36.8%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	1	1	100.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season bull only (resident)	5	27	18.5%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season bull only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season bull only (resident)	12	25	48.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season bull only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season bull only (resident)	8	15	53.3%	—
Rifle — 4th Season bull only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season bull only (resident)	9	11	81.8%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (resident)	0	2	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 elk in unit 391, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

EF391P5R — Rifle, 5th Season, Cow Only, resident: 250 applicants for 134 licences, 53.6% drawn, no preference points needed
EM391O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Bull Only, resident: 27 applicants for 5 licences, 18.5% drawn, no preference points needed
EM391O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Bull Only, resident: 25 applicants for 12 licences, 48% drawn, no preference points needed
EE391O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 21 applicants for 18 licences, 85.7% drawn, no preference points needed

No preference points were needed for the codes above in that year, which can change the moment applicant numbers do. There are 7 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

6 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Private Owner, Chief Hosa Campground and Flying Saucer RV Park.

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Road Conditions

I 70, I 25 and US 285 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 58 mi paved, 14 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

5,309–8,272 ft, averaging 6,202. 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 78/49°F, 1.3 in.; Oct 64/37°F, 1.1 in.; Nov 53/28°F, 0.8 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

Morrison (4 mi), Bow Mar (4 mi), Lakewood (5 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 391?

Unit 391 lies in Jefferson County, and CPW has it bounded on the north by I-70; on the east by I-25; on the south by Colo. 470, CRs 12 (Deer Creek Canyon) & 122 (South Turkey Creek) and U.S. 285; on the west by CR 73 and Colo. 74. (See unit 39.). It covers about 277 square miles.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 391?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 391 at 36% across all manners of take, and archery 13% and rifle 39% 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 391 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 391 are at Morrison, about 4 miles from the unit's centre, with Bow Mar at about 4 miles. There are also 6 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

Can you hunt unit 391 on public land?

CPW marks this unit: landowner permission is advisable before applying. Most land is private. Settle access before you apply rather than after you draw.

What is the elk success rate in unit 391?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 391 at 38% across all manners of take, and archery 39% and rifle 37% by weapon. 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, CPW's private-land note for the unit · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 391, 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 Elk Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for elk in unit 391, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22