Alaska Caribou — Unit 16A

Alaska Unit 16A covers 1,192,882 acres and lies 52 miles north-west of Houston and 67 miles north-west of Palmer.

Hunter success (2025):0% Size:1,192,882 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 16A 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 16A within Alaska
13 13A 13B 13E 14 14A 14B 14C 16 16B 19C 19D Houston Anchorage
Unit 16A 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 15 0% 0.0
2024 16 3 19% 4.7
2023 13 0% 0.0
2022 20 0% 0.0
2021 27 1 4% 4.0

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)

Harvest: 2023 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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