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Colorado Deer — GMU 361

Colorado GMU 361 covers 52,896 acres and lies 31 miles north-east of Gypsum and 44 miles south-east of Steamboat Springs. 74% of it is public land, mostly national forest (43%) and BLM (24%). In 2024, 196 people hunted deer here and took 65 — 33% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 208 tags here for 273 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):776 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:915 Hunter success (2024):33% Public land:74% Size:52,896 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 361, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

19 licenses on offer · 776 tags · 915 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
  • DE035O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 46 tags · 57 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    60% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • DE035O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 180 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DE035P2R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 20 tags · 2 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 43% as 2nd choice
  • DE035P2R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 20 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DE035P3R deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 20 tags · 6 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF035O1M deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 7 tags · 4 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 23% as 2nd choice
  • DF035O1M deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 3 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 25% as 2nd choice
  • DF035O2R deer female rifle season 2 GMU 35 6 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 6% as 2nd choice
  • DF035O2R deer female rifle season 2 GMU 35 4 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 25% as 2nd choice
  • DF035O3R deer female rifle season 3 GMU 35 9 tags · 3 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 8% as 2nd choice
  • DF035O3R deer female rifle season 3 GMU 35 4 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM035O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 80 tags · 69 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 12% as 2nd choice
  • DM035O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 7 tags · 4 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM035O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 35 208 tags · 273 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    53% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM035O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 35 7 tags · 19 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    67% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM035O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 35 124 tags · 361 applicants · needed 2 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM035O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 35 7 tags · 41 applicants · needed 2 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM035O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 4 tags · 69 applicants · needed 13 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM035O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 35 [35, 36, 45, 361] 20 tags · 3 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
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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
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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
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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

Gypsum Steamboat Springs Boulder Lakewood Loveland
GMU 361 within Colorado
26 35 36 371
GMU 361 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

  • National Forest 22,996 ac · 43%
  • Private 13,870 ac · 26%
  • BLM 12,676 ac · 24%
  • County or city land 3,352 ac · 6%

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 196 65 33%
2023 192 46 24%
2022 226 68 30%
2021 240 87 36%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 62 · 94% · 166 hunters, 37% success
  • Archery 0 · 0% · 6 hunters, 0% success
  • Muzzleloader 4 · 6% · 23 hunters, 17% 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