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Colorado Deer — GMU 11

Colorado GMU 11 covers 390,321 acres and lies 38 miles south-west of Craig and 58 miles north-west of Rifle. 68% of it is public land, mostly BLM (62%) and county or city land (5%). In 2024, 600 people hunted deer here and took 288 — 48% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 856 tags here for 188 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):2,960 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:1,418 Hunter success (2024):48% Public land:68% Size:390,321 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 11, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

26 licenses on offer · 2,960 tags · 1,418 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • DE011O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 11 [11, 13, 22, 131, 211, 231 and private land portions of 12, 23 and 24] 63 tags · 102 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    21% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DE011O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 11 [11, 13, 22, 131, 211, 231 and private land portions of 12, 23 and 24] 8 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DE011P2R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 24, 211] 588 tags · 164 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 44% as 2nd choice
  • DE011P2R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 24, 211] 500 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 25% as 2nd choice
  • DE011P3R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 24, 211] 856 tags · 188 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 47% as 2nd choice
  • DE011P3R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 24, 211] 156 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 71% as 2nd choice
  • DE011P4R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 211] 116 tags · 31 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 63% as 2nd choice
  • DE011P4R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 211] 100 tags · 5 applicants · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed
  • DE011W1R deer either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 11 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DE011W2R deer either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 11 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DF011O1M deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 [11, 13, 22, 131, 211, 231 and private land portions of 12, 23, and 24] 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DF011O2R deer female rifle season 2 GMU 11 2 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 40% as 2nd choice
  • DF011O2R deer female rifle season 2 GMU 11 100 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF011O3R deer female rifle season 3 GMU 11 4 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 16% as 2nd choice
  • DF011O3R deer female rifle season 3 GMU 11 2 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 33% as 2nd choice
  • DF011S4R deer female rifle special/split season GMU 11 [11 – That portion bounded on N by Colo. 318 and U.S. 40; on E by Deception Creek- Strawberry Creek Rd. (Moffat CR 57).; ] 3 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • DF011W1R deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 11 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DF011W2R deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 11 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DM011O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 [11, 13, 22, 131, 211, 231 and private land portions of 12, 23, and 24] 38 tags · 87 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM011O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 [11, 13, 22, 131, 211, 231 and private land portions of 12, 23, and 24] 3 tags · 10 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM011O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 11 215 tags · 209 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    74% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM011O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 11 19 tags · 18 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    85% Likely draw 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM011O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 11 157 tags · 432 applicants · needed 2 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM011O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 11 9 tags · 48 applicants · needed 3 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM011O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 11 [11, 211] 16 tags · 109 applicants · needed 6 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM011O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 11 [11, 211] 1 tags · 8 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
—
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
—
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
—
Colorado lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
—
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
—
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Standard license $129.11 $129.11 $636.03
Youth license $129.11 $129.11 $636.03

Application window: opens Mar 1, closes Apr 7, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Craig Rifle Fruita Delta Boulder
GMU 11 within Colorado
1 10 12 13 2 201 21 211 214 22 23 231 24 25 3 301 33 4 441 5 Craig
GMU 11 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.

Who owns the ground

  • BLM 240,342 ac · 62%
  • Private 123,901 ac · 32%
  • County or city land 21,439 ac · 5%
  • State land 4,526 ac · 1%
  • National Park Service 111 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Colorado's figures come from CPW's post-season hunter survey. CPW's 2025 report dropped the per-GMU table in favour of hunt-code rows, so the newest year shown here is 2024.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2024 600 288 48%
2023 537 238 44%
2022 1,362 698 51%
2021 1,611 996 62%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 284 · 99% · 560 hunters, 51% success
  • Archery 4 · 1% · 22 hunters, 18% success
  • Muzzleloader 0 · 0% · 18 hunters, 0% success

Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)

Harvest: 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest

Harvest: 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest Estimates

Harvest: 2022 Statewide Deer Harvest

How we compute draw odds · All Colorado deer hunts