Unit G04 (Mount Evans)
Colorado Hunting Guide — Mountain Goat
Unit G04 lies in Clear Creek, Jefferson and Park counties. CPW bounds it by W side of Colo. 74 and Jefferson CR 73 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mountain goat success here as high as 100%. Federal land covers about 41% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Mountain Goat Hunting in Unit G04
Unit G04 lies in Clear Creek, Jefferson and Park counties. CPW bounds it by W side of Colo. 74 and Jefferson CR 73 among others. CPW's harvest estimates put mountain goat success here as high as 100%. Federal land covers about 41% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Mountain Goat in Unit G04
CPW's material on unit G04 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mountain goat 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 Clear Creek, Jefferson and Park counties.
The lines of the unit: W side of Colo. 74, Jefferson CR 73 and U.S. 285
CPW has unit G04 bounded on the north by I-70; on the east by W side of Colo. 74 and Jefferson CR 73; on S and SW by U.S. 285; on the west by Guanella Pass Rd. (USFS 118 and USFS 381). It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Mount Blue Sky, Mount Bierstadt and Mount Spalding
Named high points inside the unit include Mount Blue Sky at 14,231 feet, Mount Bierstadt at 14,037 feet, Mount Spalding at 13,827 feet, Gray Wolf Mountain at 13,595 feet and Rosalie Peak at 13,571 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Goats live above the trees on cliff and talus and come down only when weather makes them.
Holding ground: Magnet Park, Mestaa’ėhehe Pass and Beaver Meadows
Below them sit Magnet Park at 10,448 feet, Mestaa’ėhehe Pass at 9,806 feet, Beaver Meadows at 9,430 feet, Deadman Gulch at 8,874 feet and Parmakian Gulch at 8,632 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.
Public ground to start from: Beaver Brook STL, Bergen Peak SWA and Crooked Top STL
CPW lists Beaver Brook STL, Bergen Peak SWA, Crooked Top STL and Mount Evans SWA 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 41% of the unit on top of those.
The herd this unit belongs to: MG-04
CPW does not manage mountain goat unit by unit. It manages them as data analysis unit MG-04, and unit G04 is one piece of it. CPW puts no other unit in MG-04, so this unit carries the herd on its own. 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.
Unit G04 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Mount Blue Sky (14,231 ft), Gray Wolf Mountain (13,595 ft), Rosalie Peak (13,571 ft), Rogers Peak (13,346 ft)
Holding ground: Summit Lake Flats (12,112 ft), Guanella Pass (11,667 ft), Highland Park (11,395 ft), Beaver Brook STL, Bergen Peak SWA
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 Mountain Goat in Unit G04
Mountain Goat Success Rates
CPW's 2023 harvest estimates put mountain goat success in unit G04 at 100% — 9 animals taken by 9 hunters. On a sample that small the percentage moves several points with one animal, so read the hunter count beside 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.
Mountain Goat Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — 1st Season either sex (resident) | 2 | 327 | 0.6% | 3 |
| Rifle — 1st Season either sex (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (resident) | 1 | 247 | 0.4% | 3 |
| Rifle — 2nd Season either sex (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Rifle — 3rd Season either sex (resident) | 1 | 189 | 0.5% | 3 |
| Rifle — 3rd Season either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 626 | 0.2% | 3 |
Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineCPW's 2026 draw recap for mountain goat in unit G04, by hunt code, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- GEG04O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Either Sex, nonresident: 626 applicants for 1 licences, 0.2% drawn, 3 preference points needed
- GEG04O1R — Rifle, 1st Season, Either Sex, resident: 327 applicants for 2 licences, 0.6% drawn, 3 preference points needed
- GEG04O2R — Rifle, 2nd Season, Either Sex, resident: 247 applicants for 1 licences, 0.4% drawn, 3 preference points needed
- GEG04O3R — Rifle, 3rd Season, Either Sex, resident: 189 applicants for 1 licences, 0.5% 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. Figures checked against CPW's own statistics pages on 2026-06-09.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-23.
- Colorado Sheep & Goat Hunting Brochure — Game Management Unit (GMU) Descriptions (pp. 16-17) — 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 Mountain goat Harvest Estimates — Colorado Parks and Wildlife · supports: Percent success for mountain goat in unit G04, 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