Colorado Deer · GMU 5
Colorado GMU 5 covers 191,203 acres and lies 34 miles north-west of Steamboat Springs and 73 miles north-east of Meeker. 60% of it is public land, mostly national forest (47%) and BLM (12%). In 2024, 275 people hunted deer here and took 129, a 47% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DE003P3R, put up 750 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 359 nonresident first-choice applicants.
23 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
47% Forest Service
191,203 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.
None of these licenses drew anyone at your points in 2026: see the table below for the cut on each.
Every License in GMU 5
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE003O1A Standard | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 3 | 0% | 1 ▲1 | |
| DE003O1A Youth | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 3 | 92% | — | |
| DE003P2R Standard · private | Deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 3 | 88% | 0 | |
| DE003P2R Youth · private | Deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 3 | 89% | — | |
| DE003P3R Standard · private | Deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 3 | 100% | — | |
| DE003P3R Youth · private | Deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 3 | 100% | — | |
| DE005P4R Standard · private | Deer either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 5 | 17% | 0 | |
| DE005W2R Standard | Deer either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 5 | 100% | — | |
| DF003O1M Standard | Deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 3 | 0% (small sample) | 3 ▲3 | |
| DF005O2R Standard | Deer female rifle season 2 GMU 5 | 0% (small sample) | 2 ▲2 | |
| DF005O2R Youth | Deer female rifle season 2 GMU 5 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DF005O3R Standard | Deer female rifle season 3 GMU 5 | 0% (small sample) | 1 | |
| DF005W1R Standard | Deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 5 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DF005W2R Standard | Deer female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 5 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DM003O1M Standard | Deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 3 | 0% | 4 ▲1 | |
| DM003O1M Youth | Deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 3 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| DM005O2R Standard | Deer male rifle season 2 GMU 5 | 0% | 6 ▲1 | |
| DM005O2R Youth | Deer male rifle season 2 GMU 5 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| DM005O3R Standard | Deer male rifle season 3 GMU 5 | 0% (small sample) | 11 | |
| DM005O3R Youth | Deer male rifle season 3 GMU 5 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DM005O4R Standard | Deer male rifle season 4 GMU 5 | 0% (small sample) | 11 ▼5 | |
| DM005O4R Youth | Deer male rifle season 4 GMU 5 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DM005W1R Standard | Deer male rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 5 | 100% (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: DF004P5A, DF005W4R, DF005W6R, DM004P5A.
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 | 275 | 129 | 47% |
| 2023 | 213 | 80 | 38% |
| 2022 | 420 | 242 | 58% |
| 2021 | 435 | 236 | 54% |
2024 split: rifle 110 (86%) from 156 hunters, 71%, archery 16 (13%) from 104 hunters, 15%, muzzleloader 2 (2%) from 15 hunters, 13%
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
| National Forest | 89,201 ac | 47% |
| Private | 76,916 ac | 40% |
| BLM | 22,950 ac | 12% |
| State land | 2,086 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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