Colorado Deer · GMU 131
Colorado GMU 131 covers 123,826 acres and lies 12 miles south-west of Steamboat Springs and 32 miles east of Craig. 16% of it is public land, mostly BLM (9%) and state land (6%). In 2024, 61 people hunted deer here and took 20, a 33% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, DE011O1A, put up 250 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 102 nonresident first-choice applicants, 54 of whom drew.
10 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
9% BLM
123,826 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2024. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in GMU 131
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE011O1A Standard | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 11 | 21% | 0 | |
| DE011O1A Youth | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 11 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DE131P2R Standard · private | Deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 131 | 100% | — | |
| DE131P3R Standard · private | Deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 131 | 100% | — | |
| DF011O1M Standard | Deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 | not open | — | |
| DM011O1M Standard | Deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 | 0% | 1 | |
| DM011O1M Youth | Deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 | 0% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DM131O2R Standard | Deer male rifle season 2 GMU 131 | 100% | — | |
| DM131O2R Youth | Deer male rifle season 2 GMU 131 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DM131O3R Standard | Deer male rifle season 3 GMU 131 | 100% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: CPW 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $636.03 ($129.11 to apply) · Youth $636.03 ($129.11 to apply). Open Mar 1 – Apr 6, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 (summed) | 61 | 20 | 33% |
| 2023 | 68 | 15 | 23% |
| 2022 | 94 | 6 | 7% |
| 2021 | 85 | 11 | 13% |
2024 split: rifle 12 (60%) from 31 hunters, 39%, archery 8 (40%) from 22 hunters, 36%, muzzleloader 0 (0%)
What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes no whole-GMU line for 2024; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. 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. Source: CPW 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest; CPW 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest…; CPW 2022 Statewide Deer Harvest.
The Ground
| Private | 104,551 ac | 84% |
| BLM | 10,876 ac | 9% |
| State land | 7,568 ac | 6% |
| National Forest | 830 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.
▸ Sources 10
- CPW 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 2 CCR 406-0 Chapter W-0 General… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 Big Game Hunting brochure fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 web page fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest… harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2022 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2021 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 GMU Boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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