Colorado Pronghorn Mule Deer

Unit 89

Colorado Hunting Guide — Pronghorn, Mule Deer

Unit 89 lies in Weld and Logan counties and covers about 773 square miles. Ground runs from 3,922 to 4,899 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 113 and U.S. 138 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put pronghorn success here as high as 48%. Federal land covers about 3% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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3,922–4,899 ft

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 89

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit 89

What CPW publishes for unit 89 is a boundary, not a pronghorn 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 Weld and Logan counties. It runs to about 773 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 113, U.S. 138 and Colo. 14

CPW has unit 89 bounded on the north by NEB; on the east by Colo. 113 and U.S. 138; on the south by Colo. 14; on the west by Colo. 71. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: East Chimney, West Chimney and Dipper Hill

Named high points inside the unit include East Chimney at 4,771 feet, West Chimney at 4,715 feet, Dipper Hill at 4,624 feet, Kirchnavy Butte at 4,559 feet and The Rocks at 4,465 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem.

Holding ground: Dipper Gap, North Pawnee Pass and Spring Draw

Below them sit Dipper Gap at 4,443 feet, North Pawnee Pass at 4,411 feet, Spring Draw at 4,301 feet, Billy Goat Hill at 4,700 feet and Battle Canyon at 4,593 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: Pawnee Valley STL

CPW lists Pawnee Valley 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 3% of the unit on top of those.

Water: Hot Shot Well, Lewis Well and Sub Water Well

The water inside the unit line comes to 212 mapped stream reaches, 7 lakes and 181 stock tanks. Named sources include Hot Shot Well, Lewis Well, Sub Water Well, Seventeenmile Spring, Lonestar Water Well and Willow Spring. 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: A-1

CPW does not manage pronghorn unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit A-1, and unit 89 is one piece of it. The rest of A-1 is unit 87, unit 88, unit 90, unit 94, unit 95 and unit 951. 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 3,922 to 4,899 feet, averaging 4,373 — a sample rather than a survey, so read the ends as approximate. There is not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.

Unit 89 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

3,922–4,899 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,373 ft ; peaks can run higher.
772.7 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

181 tanks
212 stream segments
7 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: Molly and Mable (4,374 ft), East Chimney (4,771 ft), Dipper Hill (4,624 ft), Kirchnavy Butte (4,559 ft)

Holding ground: Sand Canyon (4,503 ft), Billy Goat Hill (4,700 ft), Battle Canyon (4,593 ft), Pawnee Valley STL

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 Pronghorn in Unit 89

CPW's own harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 89 at 48% across all manners of take. That is an ordinary spread for this country, and it rewards whoever scouted. 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 West Chimney, Dipper Hill and Kirchnavy Butte

Take a position on one of West Chimney (4,715 ft), Dipper Hill (4,624 ft), Kirchnavy Butte (4,559 ft) and The Rocks (4,465 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, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Water against feed

There are 212 mapped stream reaches and 181 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 79/47°F, Oct 65/34°F and Nov 52/23°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 1.6 in. in Sep, 1.2 in. in Oct and 0.5 in. in Nov, and the graded gravel in this unit turns greasy wet.

Getting past the roads: County Road 78 and County Road 39

CO 71 and CO 113 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. 9 mapped public entry points fall inside the unit, so decide which one you take before the morning you take it.

Where unit 89 sits inside A-1

Across A-1, CPW's 2023 pronghorn success runs 62% in unit 87, 62% in unit 90, 60% in unit 88, 48% in unit 89 and 47% in unit 95. That puts unit 89 behind 3 of the 5 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 87 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 Molly and Mable, East Chimney, Dipper Hill and Kirchnavy Butte as places to see from, and Sand Canyon, Billy Goat Hill, Battle Canyon and Pawnee Valley STL as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What 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 89

Named routes and what they need

County Road 78 — 21 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 39 — 12.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 71 — 9.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 113 — 9.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 76 — 7.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 46 — 6.1 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

Sterling — 16.8 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Iliff — 18.3 mi · no services listed
Peetz — 18.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Merino — 23.2 mi · no services listed
Potter — 28.2 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Inlet Cove Campground
Chimney View Campground
Elks Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan42° / 15° · 0.3" precip
Aug88° / 57° · 1.8" precip
Sep79° / 47° · 1.6" precip
Oct65° / 34° · 1.2" precip
Nov52° / 23° · 0.5" precip
Dec42° / 15° · 0.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% 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.

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 take48%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 89 at 48% — 101 animals taken by 211 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.

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.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	12	225	5.3%	2
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	1	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	28	302	9.3%	6
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	2	29	6.9%	6
Rifle — 5th Season doe only (resident)	6	117	5.1%	2
Rifle — 5th Season doe only (nonresident)	0	0	0.0%	—

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

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CPW's 2026 draw recap for pronghorn in unit 89, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:

AM089O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 302 applicants for 28 licences, 9.3% drawn, 6 preference points needed
AF089O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 225 applicants for 12 licences, 5.3% drawn, 2 preference points needed
AF089P5R — Rifle, 5th Season, Doe Only, resident: 117 applicants for 6 licences, 5.1% drawn, 2 preference points needed
AM089O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, nonresident: 29 applicants for 2 licences, 6.9% drawn, 6 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 1 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 89

Unit 89 lies in Weld and Logan counties and covers about 773 square miles. Ground runs from 3,922 to 4,899 feet. CPW bounds it by Colo. 113 and U.S. 138 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 25%. Federal land covers about 3% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 89

CPW draws an exact line around unit 89 and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Weld and Logan counties. It runs to about 773 square miles.

The lines of the unit: Colo. 113, U.S. 138 and Colo. 14

CPW has unit 89 bounded on the north by NEB; on the east by Colo. 113 and U.S. 138; on the south by Colo. 14; on the west by Colo. 71. 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: Flat Top Butte, Molly and Mable and East Chimney

Named high points inside the unit include Flat Top Butte at 4,374 feet, Molly and Mable at 4,374 feet, East Chimney at 4,771 feet, West Chimney at 4,715 feet and Dipper Hill at 4,624 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: Sand Canyon, Martin Canyon and Bob Eaton Canyon

Below them sit Sand Canyon at 4,503 feet, Martin Canyon at 4,463 feet, Bob Eaton Canyon at 4,458 feet, Dipper Gap at 4,443 feet and North Pawnee Pass at 4,411 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: Pawnee Valley STL

Water: Dead Man Spring, Springdale Spring and Blood Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 212 mapped stream reaches, 7 lakes and 181 stock tanks. Named sources include Dead Man Spring, Springdale Spring, Blood Spring, Dipper Spring, Hot Shot Well and Lewis Well. 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-5

CPW does not manage mule deer unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit D-5, and unit 89 is one piece of it. The rest of D-5 is unit 87, unit 88, unit 90 and unit 95. 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 89 terrain and land status

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

The lay of it

3,922–4,899 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,373 ft ; peaks can run higher.
772.7 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

181 tanks
212 stream segments
7 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: Molly and Mable (4,374 ft), East Chimney (4,771 ft), Dipper Hill (4,624 ft), Kirchnavy Butte (4,559 ft)

Holding ground: Sand Canyon (4,503 ft), Billy Goat Hill (4,700 ft), Battle Canyon (4,593 ft), Pawnee Valley 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 89

CPW's own harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 89 at archery 0% and rifle 25%. 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 Flat Top Butte, Molly and Mable and East Chimney

Take a position on one of Flat Top Butte (4,374 ft), Molly and Mable (4,374 ft), East Chimney (4,771 ft) and West Chimney (4,715 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, late-season hunts put bucks with doe groups and moving in daylight.

Water against feed

There are 212 mapped stream reaches and 181 tanks inside the unit, so water is rarely the limiting factor. Where water is everywhere, feed is what concentrates animals, so hunt the feed and treat water as a convenience. Sitting water works where you can see fresh tracks going in, and nowhere else.

Timing the season: Sep, Oct, Nov

Getting past the roads: County Road 78 and County Road 39

Where unit 89 sits inside D-5

Across D-5, CPW's 2023 mule deer success runs 37% in unit 90, 30% in unit 88, 28% in unit 95, 23% in unit 89 and 17% in unit 87. That puts unit 89 behind 3 of the 4 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit 90 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 Molly and Mable, East Chimney, Dipper Hill and Kirchnavy Butte as places to see from, and Sand Canyon, Billy Goat Hill, Battle Canyon and Pawnee Valley 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.

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 89

Named routes and what they need

County Road 78 — 21 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 39 — 12.8 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
CO 71 — 9.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
CO 113 — 9.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
County Road 76 — 7.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
County Road 46 — 6.1 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

Sterling — 16.8 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Iliff — 18.3 mi · no services listed
Peetz — 18.4 mi · fuel, groceries
Merino — 23.2 mi · no services listed
Potter — 28.2 mi · no services listed

Developed camps

Inlet Cove Campground
Chimney View Campground
Elks Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan42° / 15° · 0.3" precip
Aug88° / 57° · 1.8" precip
Sep79° / 47° · 1.6" precip
Oct65° / 34° · 1.2" precip
Nov52° / 23° · 0.5" precip
Dec42° / 15° · 0.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% 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 take23%

Archery0%

Rifle25%

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 89 at 23% — 49 animals taken by 215 hunters. The hunter count is large enough for the percentage to mean something and small enough that a good or bad year still moves it.

Archery — 0% success, 0 taken by 14 hunters
Rifle — 25% success, 46 taken by 188 hunters

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	7	63	11.1%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	1	2	50.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (resident)	6	53	11.3%	1
Rifle — 1st Season doe only (nonresident)	0	1	0.0%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	33	99	33.3%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	1	9	11.1%	4
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (resident)	29	90	32.2%	—
Rifle — 1st Season buck only (nonresident)	3	4	75.0%	—

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

DM089L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 99 applicants for 33 licences, 33.3% drawn, no preference points needed
DM089O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Buck Only, resident: 90 applicants for 29 licences, 32.2% drawn, no preference points needed
DF089L1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 63 applicants for 7 licences, 11.1% drawn, no preference points needed
DF089O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Doe Only, resident: 53 applicants for 6 licences, 11.3% drawn, 1 preference point needed

Colorado runs a pure preference-point draw, so the point figure above is the requirement the agency published for that code in that year, not a forecast for the next one. There are 4 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

3 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit, including Inlet Cove Campground, Chimney View Campground and Elks Campground.

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Road Conditions

County Road 78, County Road 39 and CO 71 are the named routes in the unit. Roughly 46 mi paved, 115 mi gravel and 1 mi four-wheel-drive.

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Terrain Difficulty

3,922–4,899 ft, averaging 4,373. Gentle ground — distance rather than climbing is the day's cost.

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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 79/47°F, 1.6 in.; Oct 65/34°F, 1.2 in.; Nov 52/23°F, 0.5 in..

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Cell Service

Verizon 26%, AT&T 17%, T-Mobile 9% of the unit area — modelled coverage, not measured. Assume no signal off the paved road.

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Nearest Town

Sterling (17 mi), Iliff (18 mi), Peetz (18 mi)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit 89?

Unit 89 lies in Weld and Logan counties, and CPW has it bounded on the north by NEB; on the east by Colo. 113 and U.S. 138; on the south by Colo. 14; on the west by Colo. 71. It covers about 773 square miles.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit 89?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put pronghorn success in unit 89 at 48% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.

Where do you stay and resupply for a unit 89 hunt?

The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 89 are at Sterling, about 17 miles from the unit's centre, with Iliff at about 18 miles. There are also 3 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.

What is the mule deer success rate in unit 89?

CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mule deer success in unit 89 at 23% across all manners of take, and archery 0% and rifle 25% 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 Pronghorn Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for pronghorn in unit 89, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22
CPW CPWAdminData feature service — GMU and sheep/goat unit boundaries — Colorado Parks and Wildlife GIS Unit · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-22
2023 Colorado Deer Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mule deer in unit 89, Hunters and harvest by weapon and season · accessed 2026-10-22