Colorado Deer · GMU 441

Colorado GMU 441 covers 124,303 acres and lies 19 miles east of Craig and 53 miles north-east of Meeker. 32% of it is public land, mostly national forest (19%) and state land (12%). In 2024, 206 people hunted deer here and took 131, a 64% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DE003P3R, put up 750 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 359 nonresident first-choice applicants.

Tags, 2026
5,127

26 licenses · NR capped at 25%

Applicants
1,591

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
64%

2024, all licenses

Public Land
32%

19% Forest Service

Size
194 mi²

124,303 acres

Craig Steamboat Springs 441
64%hunter success 2024 · 206 hunters, 131 deer

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.

None of these licenses drew anyone at your points in 2026: see the table below for the cut on each.

Every License in GMU 441

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DE003O1A Standard 0% 1 ▲1
Youth 92% —
DE003P2R Standard · private 88% 0
Youth · private 89% —
DE003P3R Standard · private 100% —
Youth · private 100% —
DE004P4R Standard · private 32% 0
Youth · private 86% 0
DE214W2R Standard 100% (small sample) —
DE441W1R Standard 100% (small sample) —
DF003O1M Standard 0% (small sample) 3 ▲3
DF004O2R Standard not open —
Youth 0% (small sample) —
DF004O3R Standard not open —
Youth 100% (small sample) —
DF214W2R Standard 100% (small sample) —
DF214W4R Standard 100% (small sample) —
DF441W1R Standard 100% (small sample) —
DM003O1M Standard 0% 4 ▲1
Youth 0% (small sample) —
DM004O2R Standard 0% 3 ▲2
Youth 0% (small sample) 0
DM004O3R Standard 0% 3 ▲1
Youth 0% (small sample) 0
DM004O4R Standard 0% 5
Youth 0% (small sample) —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: DF005W4R, DF005W6R.

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 206 131 64%
2023 228 83 36%
2022 407 218 54%
2021 457 244 53%

2024 split: rifle 112 (85%) from 158 hunters, 71%, archery 16 (12%) from 36 hunters, 44%, muzzleloader 4 (3%) from 13 hunters, 31%

What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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 84,604 ac 68%
National Forest 23,065 ac 19%
State land 15,202 ac 12%
BLM 1,428 ac 1%
County or city land 2 ac <1%

Source: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 10
  1. CPW 2026 Primary DEER Post Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. CPW 2026 2 CCR 406-0 Chapter W-0 General… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. CPW 2026 Big Game Hunting brochure fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. CPW 2026 web page fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. CPW 2024 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. CPW 2023 Statewide Deer Hunting Harvest… harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. CPW 2022 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. CPW 2021 Statewide Deer Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. CPW 2026 GMU Boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. 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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