Alaska Caribou — Unit 16

Alaska Unit 16 covers 8,295,322 acres and lies 65 miles west of Houston and 77 miles west of Wasilla. In 2025, 1 person hunted caribou here and took 1.

Hunter success (2025):100% Size:8,295,322 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 16 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Alaska caribou hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Ketchikan Kake Cordova Delta Junction Kodiak
Unit 16 within Alaska
11 13 13A 13B 13C 13D 13E 14 14A 14B 14C 15B 15C 16A 16B 17A 19 19A 19B 19C 19D 20 20A 20C 20D 21 21A 21B 21E 22A 6B 7 9A 9B Houston Kenai Anchorage Seward Kachemak
Unit 16 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

How the hunting has gone

What Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Alaska's figures come from mandatory harvest reports and sealing certificates rather than a hunter survey, so they are counts of animals reported, not estimates.

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 1 1 100% 10.0
2024 1 0% 0.0

Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)

Harvest: 2025 Caribou General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

Harvest: 2024 Caribou General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

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