Alaska Caribou — Unit 20D

Alaska Unit 20D covers 3,610,961 acres and lies 29 miles east of Delta Junction and 95 miles south-east of North Pole. In 2025, 200 people hunted caribou here and took 40 — 20% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):20% Size:3,610,961 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 20D 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 Delta Junction Cordova Kodiak
Unit 20D within Alaska
12 13 13B 13C 13E 20 20A 20B 20E Delta Junction North Pole
Unit 20D 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 200 40 20% 2.6
2024 201 42 20% 3.1
2023 171 35 21% 4.2
2022 261 50 17% 2.9
2021 260 82 31% 3.9

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)

How we compute draw odds · All Alaska caribou hunts