Colorado Elk Moose Mule Deer Pronghorn

Unit 6 (Illinois River / Rand)

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

Unit 6 lies in Jackson County and covers about 353 square miles. Ground runs from 7,933 to 11,192 feet. CPW bounds it by Jackson-Larimer Co. line and Colo. 14 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 11%. Federal land covers about 30% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

View Draw Odds Colorado Hunting Guide

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30%

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8,127–11,192 ft

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Elk Hunting in Unit 6

Where to Find Elk in Unit 6

What CPW publishes for unit 6 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 Jackson County. It runs to about 353 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Jackson-Larimer Co. line, Colo. 14 and Colo. 125

CPW has unit 6 bounded on the north by WY; on the east by Jackson-Larimer Co. line; on the south by Colo. 14; on the west by Colo. 125, from Colo. 14 to WY. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.

High ground inside the line: Gould Mountain, Bull Mountain and Pinkham Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Gould Mountain at 10,383 feet, Bull Mountain at 9,720 feet, Pinkham Mountain at 9,262 feet, Custer Mountain at 9,255 feet and Sentinal Mountain at 9,084 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: Bluebird Park, Clayton Park and Cat Canyon

Below them sit Bluebird Park at 8,558 feet, Clayton Park at 8,375 feet, Cat Canyon at 8,228 feet, Kings Canyon at 8,201 feet and Bolton Draw at 8,107 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Public ground to start from: Elk Mountain STL, Johnny Moore Mountain STL and Pinkham Mountain STL

CPW lists Elk Mountain STL, Johnny Moore Mountain STL, Pinkham Mountain STL, Sand Creek STL and Three Sisters 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 30% of the unit on top of those.

Water: Crystal Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 309 mapped stream reaches, 11 lakes and 39 stock tanks. Named sources include Crystal 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-3

CPW does not manage elk unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit E-3, and unit 6 is one piece of it. The rest of E-3 is unit 16, unit 17, unit 161 and unit 171. 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.

Reading the land status

Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as National Forest 60%, Private / Other 17%, BLM 15% and State Trust 8%, 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 8,127 to 11,192 feet, and named ground inside the line runs 7,933 to 10,383 feet — take 7,933 to 11,192 as the spread, because the sample is a grid and misses the low ground. With 3,259 feet between the two ends, there is enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit 6 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

8,127–11,192 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 8,756 ft ; peaks can run higher.
353.3 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

39 tanks
309 stream segments
11 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: Gould Mountain (10,383 ft), Bull Mountain (9,720 ft), Pinkham Mountain (9,262 ft), Sentinal Mountain (9,084 ft)

Holding ground: Ute Pass (9,879 ft), Muddy Park (8,783 ft), Cat Canyon (8,228 ft), Elk Mountain STL, Johnny Moore Mountain 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 6

CPW's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 6 at archery 5%, muzzleloader 11% and rifle 11%. 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 East Sand Hills, Michigan Hill and Dean Peak

Take a position on one of East Sand Hills (8,691 ft), Michigan Hill (8,653 ft), Dean Peak (8,544 ft) and Eagle Hill (8,380 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Water against feed

There are 309 mapped stream reaches and 39 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 67/30°F, Oct 53/21°F and Nov 39/12°F. By Nov the lows are around 12°F, and the first hard storm after that moves animals off the high ground — a late tag is a bet on that storm arriving. Precipitation runs about 1.4 in. in Sep, 1.1 in. in Oct and 0.9 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: CO 14 and CO 125

CO 14 and CO 125 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. CR 48 / FR 895.1, CR 127A / FR 516.0 and CR 46C / FR 881.1 need clearance, and that is usually where the boot tracks thin out. There are roughly 6 miles of genuine four-wheel-drive road in the unit, and the country past the end of them is the part worth your legs. One mapped public entry point falls inside the unit, so decide which one you take before the morning you take it.

Where unit 6 sits inside E-3

Across E-3, CPW's 2023 elk success runs 12% in unit 16, 9% in unit 6, 7% in unit 17, 5% in unit 161 and 3% in unit 171. That puts unit 6 behind 1 of the 4 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 16 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

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 6

Named routes and what they need

CO 14 — 20.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 125 — 5.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 48;FR 895.1 — 4.3 mi · High-clearance
CR 127A;FR 516.0 — 4 mi · High-clearance
CR 46C;FR 881.1 — 1.2 mi · High-clearance

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

Walden — 7.8 mi · groceries
Red Feather Lakes — 28.7 mi · no services listed
Rustic — 29.4 mi · no services listed
Albany — 29.5 mi · no services listed
Centennial — 37.3 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site · Fee
Unnamed camp site · Fee
Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site

Season weather and signal

Jan28° / 3° · 0.7" precip
Aug74° / 37° · 1.4" precip
Sep67° / 30° · 1.4" precip
Oct53° / 21° · 1.1" precip
Nov39° / 12° · 0.9" precip
Dec29° / 4° · 0.8" precip

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

Colorado rules that decide your day

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

Legal shooting hours

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

Motorized retrieval

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

Tagging

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

Leaving meat

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

Where you may not shoot

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

Elk: where to put the shot

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

Shots to refuse

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

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

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

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Elk Success Rates

All manners of take9%

Archery5%

Muzzleloader11%

Rifle11%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 6 at 9% — 299 animals taken by 3,169 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, 36 taken by 682 hunters
Muzzleloader — 11% success, 17 taken by 159 hunters
Rifle — 11% success, 247 taken by 2,328 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)	281	457	61.5%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	100	350	28.6%	1
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (resident)	90	360	25.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	46	104	44.2%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	512	892	57.4%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	180	396	45.5%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (resident)	56	149	37.6%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (nonresident)	12	20	60.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	21	39	53.8%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	38	77	49.4%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (resident)	7	133	5.3%	14
Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	312	789	39.5%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	71	169	42.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	400	601	66.6%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	57	83	68.7%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	111	225	49.3%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	2	8	25.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	45	125	36.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	1	2	50.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	8	16	50.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	3	9	33.3%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (resident)	112	166	67.5%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (nonresident)	25	37	67.6%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	6	37	16.2%	4
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	5	37	13.5%	4
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	5	59	8.5%	2
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	5	35	14.3%	3
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	2	2	100.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	1	2	50.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	5	121	4.1%	12
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	689	1,175	58.6%	—
Archery — 1st Season cow only (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	3	61	4.9%	—

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

EE006V1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 1,175 applicants for 689 licences, 58.6% drawn, no preference points needed
EE006O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 892 applicants for 512 licences, 57.4% drawn, no preference points needed
EF006O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Cow Only, resident: 789 applicants for 312 licences, 39.5% drawn, no preference points needed
EF006O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Cow Only, resident: 601 applicants for 400 licences, 66.6% drawn, no preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. There are 23 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Moose Hunting in Unit 6

Unit 6 lies in Jackson County and covers about 353 square miles. Ground runs from 7,933 to 11,192 feet. CPW bounds it by Jackson-Larimer Co. line and Colo. 14 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 69%. Federal land covers about 30% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 6

What CPW publishes for unit 6 is a boundary, not a Shiras moose 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 Jackson County. It runs to about 353 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Jackson-Larimer Co. line, Colo. 14 and Colo. 125

High ground inside the line: Johnny Moore Mountain, Elk Mountain and North Sand Hills

Named high points inside the unit include Johnny Moore Mountain at 9,051 feet, Elk Mountain at 8,817 feet, North Sand Hills at 8,761 feet, East Sand Hills at 8,691 feet and Michigan Hill at 8,653 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: Bush Draw, Williams Draw and Sudduth Draw

Below them sit Bush Draw at 8,057 feet, Williams Draw at 8,049 feet, Sudduth Draw at 8,026 feet, Mann Draw at 8,008 feet and Ballinger Draw at 7,999 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Public ground to start from: Elk Mountain STL, Johnny Moore Mountain STL and Pinkham Mountain STL

Water: Crystal Spring

The herd this unit belongs to: M-1

CPW does not manage Shiras moose unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit M-1, and unit 6 is one piece of it. The rest of M-1 is unit 16, unit 17, unit 161 and unit 171. 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.

Reading the land status

Unit 6 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

8,127–11,192 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 8,756 ft ; peaks can run higher.
353.3 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

39 tanks
309 stream segments
11 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: Gould Mountain (10,383 ft), Bull Mountain (9,720 ft), Pinkham Mountain (9,262 ft), Sentinal Mountain (9,084 ft)

Holding ground: Ute Pass (9,879 ft), Muddy Park (8,783 ft), Cat Canyon (8,228 ft), Elk Mountain STL, Johnny Moore Mountain 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 Shiras Moose in Unit 6

CPW's own harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 6 at 69% 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 Gould Mountain, Bull Mountain and Pinkham Mountain

Take a position on one of Gould Mountain (10,383 ft), Bull Mountain (9,720 ft), Pinkham Mountain (9,262 ft) and Custer Mountain (9,255 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 September bulls answer a cow call near water.

Water against feed

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: CO 14 and CO 125

Where unit 6 sits inside M-1

Across M-1, CPW's 2023 Shiras moose success runs 77% in unit 17, 77% in unit 161, 76% in unit 16, 69% in unit 6 and 67% in unit 171. That puts unit 6 behind 3 of the 4 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 17 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 Gould Mountain, Bull Mountain, Pinkham Mountain and Sentinal Mountain as places to see from, and Ute Pass, Muddy Park, Cat Canyon and Elk Mountain STL 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.

Getting in and staying out: unit 6

Named routes and what they need

CO 14 — 20.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 125 — 5.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 48;FR 895.1 — 4.3 mi · High-clearance
CR 127A;FR 516.0 — 4 mi · High-clearance
CR 46C;FR 881.1 — 1.2 mi · High-clearance

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

Walden — 7.8 mi · groceries
Red Feather Lakes — 28.7 mi · no services listed
Rustic — 29.4 mi · no services listed
Albany — 29.5 mi · no services listed
Centennial — 37.3 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site · Fee
Unnamed camp site · Fee
Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site

Season weather and signal

Jan28° / 3° · 0.7" precip
Aug74° / 37° · 1.4" precip
Sep67° / 30° · 1.4" precip
Oct53° / 21° · 1.1" precip
Nov39° / 12° · 0.9" precip
Dec29° / 4° · 0.8" precip

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

Colorado rules that decide your day

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

Legal shooting hours

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

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

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

Leaving meat

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

Where you may not shoot

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

Moose: where to put the shot

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

Shots to refuse

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

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

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Moose Success Rates

All manners of take69%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 6 at 69% — 31 animals taken by 45 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
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	2	598	0.3%	3
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	2	178	1.1%	3
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	8	826	1.0%	3
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	1	37	2.7%	3
Archery — 1st Season cow only (resident)	26	453	5.7%	3
Archery — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	6	87	6.9%	3
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (resident)	16	1,458	1.1%	3
Any Legal Method — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	3	823	0.4%	3

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 Shiras moose in unit 6, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

MM006O1X — Any Legal Method, 1st Season, Bull Only, resident: 1,458 applicants for 16 licences, 1.1% drawn, 3 preference points needed
MF006L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Cow Only, resident: 826 applicants for 8 licences, 1% drawn, 3 preference points needed
MM006O1X — Any Legal Method, 1st Season, Bull Only, nonresident: 823 applicants for 3 licences, 0.4% drawn, 3 preference points needed
ME006W1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 598 applicants for 2 licences, 0.3% drawn, 3 preference points needed

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

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 6

Unit 6 lies in Jackson County and covers about 353 square miles. Ground runs from 7,933 to 11,192 feet. CPW bounds it by Jackson-Larimer Co. line and Colo. 14 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 53%. Federal land covers about 30% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 6

What CPW publishes for unit 6 is a boundary, not a mule deer 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 Jackson County. It runs to about 353 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Jackson-Larimer Co. line, Colo. 14 and Colo. 125

CPW has unit 6 bounded on the north by WY; on the east by Jackson-Larimer Co. line; on the south by Colo. 14; on the west by Colo. 125, from Colo. 14 to WY. 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: Dean Peak, Eagle Hill and Gould Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Dean Peak at 8,544 feet, Eagle Hill at 8,380 feet, Gould Mountain at 10,383 feet, Bull Mountain at 9,720 feet and Pinkham Mountain at 9,262 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: Buffmeyer Draw, Ute Pass and Muddy Park

Below them sit Buffmeyer Draw at 7,933 feet, Ute Pass at 9,879 feet, Muddy Park at 8,783 feet, Custer Draw at 8,673 feet and Bear Draw at 8,624 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Public ground to start from: Elk Mountain STL, Johnny Moore Mountain STL and Pinkham Mountain STL

Water: Crystal Spring

The herd this unit belongs to: D-3

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-3, and unit 6 is one piece of it. The rest of D-3 is unit 16, unit 17, unit 161 and unit 171. 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

Unit 6 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

8,127–11,192 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 8,756 ft ; peaks can run higher.
353.3 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

39 tanks
309 stream segments
11 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: Gould Mountain (10,383 ft), Bull Mountain (9,720 ft), Pinkham Mountain (9,262 ft), Sentinal Mountain (9,084 ft)

Holding ground: Ute Pass (9,879 ft), Muddy Park (8,783 ft), Cat Canyon (8,228 ft), Elk Mountain STL, Johnny Moore Mountain 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 6

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 6 at archery 5% 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 Sentinal Mountain, Johnny Moore Mountain and Elk Mountain

Take a position on one of Sentinal Mountain (9,084 ft), Johnny Moore Mountain (9,051 ft), Elk Mountain (8,817 ft) and North Sand Hills (8,761 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 309 mapped stream reaches and 39 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 14 and CO 125

Where unit 6 sits inside D-3

Across D-3, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 41% in unit 6, 34% in unit 161, 19% in unit 16, 15% in unit 171 and 9% in unit 17. Unit 6 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 Gould Mountain, Bull Mountain, Pinkham Mountain and Sentinal Mountain as places to see from, and Ute Pass, Muddy Park, Cat Canyon and Elk Mountain 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.

Getting in and staying out: unit 6

Named routes and what they need

CO 14 — 20.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 125 — 5.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 48;FR 895.1 — 4.3 mi · High-clearance
CR 127A;FR 516.0 — 4 mi · High-clearance
CR 46C;FR 881.1 — 1.2 mi · High-clearance

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

Walden — 7.8 mi · groceries
Red Feather Lakes — 28.7 mi · no services listed
Rustic — 29.4 mi · no services listed
Albany — 29.5 mi · no services listed
Centennial — 37.3 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site · Fee
Unnamed camp site · Fee
Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site

Season weather and signal

Jan28° / 3° · 0.7" precip
Aug74° / 37° · 1.4" precip
Sep67° / 30° · 1.4" precip
Oct53° / 21° · 1.1" precip
Nov39° / 12° · 0.9" precip
Dec29° / 4° · 0.8" precip

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

Colorado rules that decide your day

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

Legal shooting hours

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

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

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

Leaving meat

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

Where you may not shoot

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

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

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

Shots to refuse

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

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

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Mule Deer Success Rates

All manners of take41%

Archery5%

Rifle53%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 6 at 41% — 97 animals taken by 239 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 — 5% success, 3 taken by 57 hunters
Rifle — 53% success, 79 taken by 148 hunters

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	15	106	14.2%	3
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	4	26	15.4%	4
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	28	164	17.1%	2
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	9	37	24.3%	2
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	27	177	15.3%	3
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	8	85	9.4%	5
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (resident)	16	168	9.5%	5
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (nonresident)	5	49	10.2%	16
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (resident)	17	253	6.7%	5
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (nonresident)	4	54	7.4%	17
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	1	56	1.8%	18
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 5th Season doe only (resident)	4	12	33.3%	—
Rifle — 5th Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	13	308	4.2%	2
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	6	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	10	188	5.3%	3
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	3	48	6.3%	5
Archery — 1st Season buck only (resident)	116	433	26.8%	—
Archery — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	28	98	28.6%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	95	496	19.2%	1
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	24	151	15.9%	1
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	61	314	19.4%	1
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	22	92	23.9%	1
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	6	176	3.4%	2
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	1	9	11.1%	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 mule deer in unit 6, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

DE006O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 496 applicants for 95 licences, 19.2% drawn, 1 preference point needed
DM006O1M — Muzzleloader, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 314 applicants for 61 licences, 19.4% drawn, 1 preference point needed
DF006E1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 308 applicants for 13 licences, 4.2% drawn, 2 preference points needed
DM006O4R — Rifle, 4th Season, Buck Only, resident: 253 applicants for 17 licences, 6.7% 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. There are 18 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 6

Unit 6 lies in Jackson County and covers about 353 square miles. Ground runs from 7,933 to 11,192 feet. CPW bounds it by Jackson-Larimer Co. line and Colo. 14 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put pronghorn success here as high as 66%. Federal land covers about 30% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 6

What CPW publishes for unit 6 is a boundary, not a pronghorn 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 Jackson County. It runs to about 353 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Jackson-Larimer Co. line, Colo. 14 and Colo. 125

CPW has unit 6 bounded on the north by WY; on the east by Jackson-Larimer Co. line; on the south by Colo. 14; on the west by Colo. 125, from Colo. 14 to WY. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Custer Mountain, Sentinal Mountain and Johnny Moore Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Custer Mountain at 9,255 feet, Sentinal Mountain at 9,084 feet, Johnny Moore Mountain at 9,051 feet, Elk Mountain at 8,817 feet and North Sand Hills at 8,761 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn stay on the open rolling ground and leave the timber alone.

Holding ground: Brown Park, Bluebird Park and Clayton Park

Below them sit Brown Park at 8,595 feet, Bluebird Park at 8,558 feet, Clayton Park at 8,375 feet, Cat Canyon at 8,228 feet and Kings Canyon at 8,201 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.

Public ground to start from: Elk Mountain STL, Johnny Moore Mountain STL and Pinkham Mountain STL

Water: Crystal Spring

The herd this unit belongs to: A-3

CPW does not manage pronghorn unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit A-3, and unit 6 is one piece of it. The rest of A-3 is unit 16, unit 17, unit 161 and unit 171. 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.

Reading the land status

Unit 6 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

8,127–11,192 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 8,756 ft ; peaks can run higher.
353.3 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

39 tanks
309 stream segments
11 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: Gould Mountain (10,383 ft), Bull Mountain (9,720 ft), Pinkham Mountain (9,262 ft), Sentinal Mountain (9,084 ft)

Holding ground: Ute Pass (9,879 ft), Muddy Park (8,783 ft), Cat Canyon (8,228 ft), Elk Mountain STL, Johnny Moore Mountain 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 6

CPW's own harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 6 at 66% across all manners of take. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: spot from a vehicle or a rise at distance, then plan a stalk that uses the only cover there is — the curve of the ground.

Glassing from East Sand Hills, Michigan Hill and Dean Peak

Take a position on one of East Sand Hills (8,691 ft), Michigan Hill (8,653 ft), Dean Peak (8,544 ft) and Eagle Hill (8,380 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. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Water against feed

There are 309 mapped stream reaches and 39 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 14 and CO 125

Where unit 6 sits inside A-3

Across A-3, CPW's 2023 pronghorn success runs 66% in unit 6, 64% in unit 161, 57% in unit 171, 53% in unit 16 and 52% in unit 17. Unit 6 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 Gould Mountain, Bull Mountain, Pinkham Mountain and Sentinal Mountain as places to see from, and Ute Pass, Muddy Park, Cat Canyon and Elk Mountain 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.

Getting in and staying out: unit 6

Named routes and what they need

CO 14 — 20.1 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 125 — 5.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CR 48;FR 895.1 — 4.3 mi · High-clearance
CR 127A;FR 516.0 — 4 mi · High-clearance
CR 46C;FR 881.1 — 1.2 mi · High-clearance

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

Walden — 7.8 mi · groceries
Red Feather Lakes — 28.7 mi · no services listed
Rustic — 29.4 mi · no services listed
Albany — 29.5 mi · no services listed
Centennial — 37.3 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site · Fee
Unnamed camp site · Fee
Unnamed camp site
Unnamed camp site

Season weather and signal

Jan28° / 3° · 0.7" precip
Aug74° / 37° · 1.4" precip
Sep67° / 30° · 1.4" precip
Oct53° / 21° · 1.1" precip
Nov39° / 12° · 0.9" precip
Dec29° / 4° · 0.8" precip

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

Colorado rules that decide your day

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

Legal shooting hours

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

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

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

Leaving meat

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

Where you may not shoot

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

Pronghorn: where to put the shot

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

Shots to refuse

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

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

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Pronghorn Success Rates

All manners of take66%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 6 at 66% — 119 animals taken by 180 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	2	231	0.9%	30
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	19	323	5.9%	3
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	3	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	7	107	6.5%	7
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	11	730	1.5%	21
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	2	253	0.8%	26
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	50	1,002	5.0%	3
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	2	33	6.1%	4
Archery — 1st Season doe only (resident)	21	121	17.4%	—
Archery — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	7	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season buck only (resident)	54	409	13.2%	5
Archery — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	16	99	16.2%	5
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (resident)	55	226	24.3%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	1	3	33.3%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	30	286	10.5%	9
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	7	89	7.9%	9

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

Open in Draw Odds Engine

CPW's 2026 draw recap for pronghorn in unit 6, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AF006O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Doe Only, resident: 1,002 applicants for 50 licences, 5% drawn, 3 preference points needed
AM006O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 730 applicants for 11 licences, 1.5% drawn, 21 preference points needed
AM006O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 409 applicants for 54 licences, 13.2% drawn, 5 preference points needed
AF006O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 323 applicants for 19 licences, 5.9% drawn, 3 preference points needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. There are 12 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

35 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including North Park / Walden / Gould KOA, North Michigan (South Side) and Bockman Campground.

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Road Conditions

CO 14, CO 125 and CR 48 / FR 895.1 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 26 mi paved, 8 mi gravel and 6 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

8,127–11,192 ft, averaging 8,756. 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 67/30°F, 1.4 in.; Oct 53/21°F, 1.1 in.; Nov 39/12°F, 0.9 in..

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Cell Service

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

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Nearest Town

Walden (8 mi), Red Feather Lakes (29 mi), Rustic (29 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 6?

Unit 6 lies in Jackson County, and CPW has it bounded on the north by WY; on the east by Jackson-Larimer Co. line; on the south by Colo. 14; on the west by Colo. 125, from Colo. 14 to WY. It covers about 353 square miles.

What is the elk success rate in unit 6?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 6 at 9% across all manners of take, and archery 5%, muzzleloader 11% and rifle 11% 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 6 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 6 are at Walden, about 8 miles from the unit's centre, with Red Feather Lakes at about 29 miles. There are also 35 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the Shiras moose success rate in unit 6?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 6 at 69% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 6?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 6 at 41% across all manners of take, and archery 5% 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 6?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 6 at 66% 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 6, 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 Moose Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for Shiras moose in unit 6, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 6, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Pronghorn Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for pronghorn in unit 6, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22