Colorado Mule Deer Bear Elk

Unit 60 (Gunnison South / Cochetopa)

Colorado Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Bear, Elk

Unit 60 lies in Mesa and Montrose counties and covers about 238 square miles. Ground runs from 4,562 to 7,953 feet. CPW bounds it by Dolores River and Colo. 90 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 64%. Federal land covers about 82% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 60

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 60

What CPW publishes for unit 60 is a boundary, not a mule deer map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Mesa and Montrose counties. It runs to about 238 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Dolores River and Colo. 90

CPW has unit 60 bounded on the north and east by Dolores River; on the south by Colo. 90; on the west by UT. 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: Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa and Carpenter Flats

Named high points inside the unit include Cone Mountain at 7,835 feet, Sewemup Mesa at 7,469 feet, Carpenter Flats at 7,179 feet and Martin Mesa at 6,995 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: Garvey Gulch, Paradox Valley and Beehive Canyon

Below them sit Garvey Gulch at 5,054 feet, Paradox Valley at 4,943 feet, Beehive Canyon at 4,793 feet, Lumsden Canyon at 4,784 feet and Salt Creek Canyon at 4,681 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water: Willow Spring and DP Spring

Named sources include Willow Spring and DP Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

The herd this unit belongs to: D-23

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-23, and unit 60 is one piece of it. CPW puts no other unit in D-23, so this unit carries the herd on its own. 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 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 4,562 to 7,953 feet, averaging 6,329 — a sample rather than a survey, so read the ends as approximate. There is enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.

Unit 60 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Cone Mountain (7,835 ft), Sewemup Mesa (7,469 ft), Carpenter Flats (7,179 ft), Martin Mesa (6,995 ft)

Holding ground: Hog Trough (6,897 ft), Sinbad Valley (5,636 ft), North Cottonwood Canyon (5,282 ft), Willow Spring, DP Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

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How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 60

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 60 at archery 22% and rifle 64%. 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 Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa and Carpenter Flats

Take a position on one of Cone Mountain (7,835 ft), Sewemup Mesa (7,469 ft), Carpenter Flats (7,179 ft) and Martin Mesa (6,995 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, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Season normals here run Sep 84/48°F, Oct 70/36°F and Nov 55/24°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 1.4 in. in Sep, 1.2 in. in Oct and 0.8 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: CO 141 and CO 90

CO 141 and CO 90 are the paved frame, which is also where everyone else starts. FR 0072 needs clearance, and that is usually where the boot tracks thin out. There is little true four-wheel-drive road here, so distance from the gravel is the only thing separating you from the next hunter.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa, Carpenter Flats and Martin Mesa as places to see from, and Hog Trough, Sinbad Valley, North Cottonwood Canyon and Willow Spring 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

238 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 3,391 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

What we can't tell you

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

Colorado rules that decide your day

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

Legal shooting hours

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

Motorized retrieval

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

Tagging

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

Leaving meat

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

Where you may not shoot

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

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 take58%

Archery22%

Rifle64%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 60 at 58% — 124 animals taken by 212 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 — 22% success, 8 taken by 35 hunters
Rifle — 64% success, 107 taken by 168 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
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (resident)	3	8	37.5%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season doe only (resident)	2	10	20.0%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	46	83	55.4%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	29	41	70.7%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (resident)	43	117	36.8%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (nonresident)	53	92	57.6%	—
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (resident)	14	45	31.1%	—
Rifle — 4th Season buck only (nonresident)	6	62	9.7%	4
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (resident)	2	7	28.6%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season buck only (nonresident)	3	13	23.1%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (resident)	8	13	61.5%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season buck only (nonresident)	1	1	100.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	15	41	36.6%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	13	23	56.5%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	2	4	50.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season buck only (resident)	23	50	46.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	19	40	47.5%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (resident)	7	24	29.2%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	5	10	50.0%	—

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

DM060O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Buck Only, resident: 117 applicants for 43 licences, 36.8% drawn, no preference points needed
DM060O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 92 applicants for 53 licences, 57.6% drawn, no preference points needed
DM060O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Buck Only, resident: 83 applicants for 46 licences, 55.4% drawn, no preference points needed
DM060O4R — Rifle, 4th Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 62 applicants for 6 licences, 9.7% 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. There are 14 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

Bear Hunting in Unit 60

Unit 60 lies in Mesa and Montrose counties and covers about 238 square miles. Ground runs from 4,562 to 7,953 feet. CPW bounds it by Dolores River and Colo. 90 among others. CPW publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. Federal land covers about 82% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Black Bear in Unit 60

CPW's material on unit 60 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its black bear live. 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 Mesa and Montrose counties. It runs to about 238 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Dolores River and Colo. 90

CPW has unit 60 bounded on the north and east by Dolores River; on the south by Colo. 90; on the west by UT. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa and Carpenter Flats

Named high points inside the unit include Cone Mountain at 7,835 feet, Sewemup Mesa at 7,469 feet, Carpenter Flats at 7,179 feet and Martin Mesa at 6,995 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears on dry country work the drainages with fruit in them and little else.

Holding ground: Gateway Canyon, Cottonwood Canyon and Cave Canyon

Below them sit Gateway Canyon at 4,663 feet, Cottonwood Canyon at 4,647 feet, Cave Canyon at 4,605 feet, John Brown Canyon at 4,567 feet and Hog Trough at 6,897 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.

Water: Willow Spring and DP Spring

Named sources include Willow Spring and DP 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: B-5

CPW does not manage black bear unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit B-5, and unit 60 is one piece of it. The rest of B-5 is unit 40, unit 61, unit 62, unit 64, unit 65 and unit 70. 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 60 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Cone Mountain (7,835 ft), Sewemup Mesa (7,469 ft), Carpenter Flats (7,179 ft), Martin Mesa (6,995 ft)

Holding ground: Hog Trough (6,897 ft), Sinbad Valley (5,636 ft), North Cottonwood Canyon (5,282 ft), Willow Spring, DP Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Black Bear in Unit 60

CPW publishes no black bear success figure for unit 60 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: find the berry crop first, then glass it morning and evening until something is in it.

Glassing from Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa and Carpenter Flats

Take a position on one of Cone Mountain (7,835 ft), Sewemup Mesa (7,469 ft), Carpenter Flats (7,179 ft) and Martin Mesa (6,995 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 hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: CO 141 and CO 90

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa, Carpenter Flats and Martin Mesa as places to see from, and Hog Trough, Sinbad Valley, North Cottonwood Canyon and Willow Spring 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

238 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 3,391 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Leave the truck earlier than you want to and you will hunt the best half-hour of the day.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it. We have no black bear success figure for this unit that survives checking against CPW's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

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.

Bear: where to put the shot

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

Shots to refuse

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

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

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Bear Success Rates

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit 60 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.

Bear Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	15	23	65.2%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	34	45	75.6%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (resident)	4	9	44.4%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	4	7	57.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	173	234	73.9%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	53	72	73.6%	—

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

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for black bear in unit 60, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

BE060O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 234 applicants for 173 licences, 73.9% drawn, no preference points needed
BE060O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 72 applicants for 53 licences, 73.6% drawn, no preference points needed
BE060O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 45 applicants for 34 licences, 75.6% drawn, no preference points needed
BE060O1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 23 applicants for 15 licences, 65.2% 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 2 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 60

Unit 60 lies in Mesa and Montrose counties and covers about 238 square miles. Ground runs from 4,562 to 7,953 feet. CPW bounds it by Dolores River and Colo. 90 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put elk success here as high as 17%. Federal land covers about 82% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Elk in Unit 60

CPW draws an exact line around unit 60 and says nothing about where the elk 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 Mesa and Montrose counties. It runs to about 238 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Dolores River and Colo. 90

CPW has unit 60 bounded on the north and east by Dolores River; on the south by Colo. 90; on the west by UT. 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: Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa and Carpenter Flats

Named high points inside the unit include Cone Mountain at 7,835 feet, Sewemup Mesa at 7,469 feet, Carpenter Flats at 7,179 feet and Martin Mesa at 6,995 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: Lion Canyon, Sunrise Canyon and Sinbad Valley

Below them sit Lion Canyon at 5,946 feet, Sunrise Canyon at 5,660 feet, Sinbad Valley at 5,636 feet, North Cottonwood Canyon at 5,282 feet and Garvey Gulch at 5,054 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Water: Willow Spring and DP Spring

Named sources include Willow Spring and DP 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-40

CPW does not manage elk unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit E-40, and unit 60 is one piece of it. CPW puts no other unit in E-40, so this unit carries the herd on its own. 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 60 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Cone Mountain (7,835 ft), Sewemup Mesa (7,469 ft), Carpenter Flats (7,179 ft), Martin Mesa (6,995 ft)

Holding ground: Hog Trough (6,897 ft), Sinbad Valley (5,636 ft), North Cottonwood Canyon (5,282 ft), Willow Spring, DP Spring

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 60

CPW's own harvest estimates put elk success in unit 60 at archery 5%, muzzleloader 0% and rifle 17%. 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 Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa and Carpenter Flats

Take a position on one of Cone Mountain (7,835 ft), Sewemup Mesa (7,469 ft), Carpenter Flats (7,179 ft) and Martin Mesa (6,995 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, September bugling works where you can get above a drainage and let the thermals carry sound downhill.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: CO 141 and CO 90

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa, Carpenter Flats and Martin Mesa as places to see from, and Hog Trough, Sinbad Valley, North Cottonwood Canyon and Willow Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What a day here costs you

238 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. With 3,391 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Leave the truck earlier than you want to and you will hunt the best half-hour of the day.

What we can't tell you

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

Colorado rules that decide your day

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

Legal shooting hours

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

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

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

Leaving meat

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

Where you may not shoot

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

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 take15%

Archery5%

Muzzleloader0%

Rifle17%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 60 at 15% — 70 animals taken by 461 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 52 hunters
Muzzleloader — 0% success, 0 taken by 26 hunters
Rifle — 17% success, 67 taken by 384 hunters

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (resident)	45	67	67.2%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (nonresident)	14	25	56.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident)	1	1	100.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (resident)	2	9	22.2%	—
Rifle — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	0	2	0.0%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (resident)	7	12	58.3%	—
Rifle — 2nd Season cow only (nonresident)	5	7	71.4%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (resident)	10	17	58.8%	—
Rifle — 3rd Season cow only (nonresident)	4	7	57.1%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (resident)	12	14	85.7%	—
Rifle — 5th Season cow only (nonresident)	3	5	60.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (resident)	26	41	63.4%	—
Rifle — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	38	48	79.2%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (resident)	1	2	50.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season either sex (nonresident)	1	1	100.0%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (resident)	1	11	9.1%	—
Rifle — 4th Season cow only (nonresident)	0	1	0.0%	—
Rifle — 6th Season cow only (resident)	27	46	58.7%	—
Rifle — 6th Season cow only (nonresident)	3	5	60.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (resident)	1	5	20.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season cow only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season bull only (resident)	13	17	76.5%	—
Muzzleloader — 1st Season bull only (nonresident)	8	10	80.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (resident)	0	0	0.0%	—
Archery — 1st Season either sex (nonresident)	29	73	39.7%	—

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

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for elk in unit 60, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

EE060V1A — Archery, 1st Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 73 applicants for 29 licences, 39.7% drawn, no preference points needed
EE060O4R — Rifle, 4th Season, Either Sex, resident: 67 applicants for 45 licences, 67.2% drawn, no preference points needed
EM060O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Bull Only, nonresident: 48 applicants for 38 licences, 79.2% drawn, no preference points needed
EF060P6R — Rifle, 6th Season, Cow Only, resident: 46 applicants for 27 licences, 58.7% 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 19 further code-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.

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Camp Sites

1 developed campground in or beside the unit, including Buckeye Recreation Area (Co).

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Road Conditions

CO 141, CO 90 and 4.1 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 21 mi paved, 14 mi gravel and 0 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

4,562–7,953 ft, averaging 6,329. 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 84/48°F, 1.4 in.; Oct 70/36°F, 1.2 in.; Nov 55/24°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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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 60?

Unit 60 lies in Mesa and Montrose counties, and CPW has it bounded on the north and east by Dolores River; on the south by Colo. 90; on the west by UT. It covers about 238 square miles.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 60?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 60 at 58% across all manners of take, and archery 22% and rifle 64% by weapon. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

What is the black bear success rate in unit 60?

CPW publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit 60 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.

What is the elk success rate in unit 60?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put elk success in unit 60 at 15% across all manners of take, and archery 5%, muzzleloader 0% and rifle 17% 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 · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 60, 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 60, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22

Unit 60 (Gunnison South / Cochetopa)

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 60

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 60

How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit 60

Mule Deer Success Rates

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Bear Hunting in Unit 60

Where to Find Black Bear in Unit 60

The lines of the unit: Dolores River and Colo. 90

High ground inside the line: Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa and Carpenter Flats

Holding ground: Gateway Canyon, Cottonwood Canyon and Cave Canyon

Water: Willow Spring and DP Spring

The herd this unit belongs to: B-5

Reading the land status

Unit 60 terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Black Bear in Unit 60

Bear Success Rates

Bear Draw Odds

Elk Hunting in Unit 60

Where to Find Elk in Unit 60

The lines of the unit: Dolores River and Colo. 90

High ground inside the line: Cone Mountain, Sewemup Mesa and Carpenter Flats

Holding ground: Lion Canyon, Sunrise Canyon and Sinbad Valley

Water: Willow Spring and DP Spring

The herd this unit belongs to: E-40

Reading the land status

Unit 60 terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Elk in Unit 60

Elk Success Rates

Elk Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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