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Colorado Deer — GMU 55

Colorado GMU 55 covers 567,177 acres and lies 58 miles south of Gypsum. 89% of it is public land, mostly national forest (82%) and BLM (7%). In 2024, 695 people hunted deer here and took 459 — 66% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 62 tags here for 275 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 6 points.

Tags (2026):242 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:870 Hunter success (2024):66% Public land:89% Size:567,177 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 55, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

19 licenses on offer · 242 tags · 870 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
  • DF055O1A deer female archery season 1 GMU 55 [55] 5 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF055O1M deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 55 [55] 2 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF055O1M deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 55 [55] 30 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF055O1R deer female rifle season 1 GMU 55 [55] 1 tags · 6 applicants · needed 3 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF055O2R deer female rifle season 2 GMU 55 3 tags · 1 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF055O2R deer female rifle season 2 GMU 55 2 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF055O3R deer female rifle season 3 GMU 55 1 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF055O3R deer female rifle season 3 GMU 55 25 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF055P5R deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 55 [55] 11 tags · 1 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Undersubscribed
  • DM055O1A deer male archery season 1 GMU 55 [55] 17 tags · 152 applicants · needed 11 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM055O1A deer male archery season 1 GMU 55 [55] 2 tags · 5 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM055O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 55 [55] 16 tags · 88 applicants · needed 13 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM055O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 55 [55] 3 tags · 4 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM055O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 55 62 tags · 275 applicants · needed 6 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM055O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 55 6 tags · 16 applicants · needed 6 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM055O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 55 25 tags · 209 applicants · needed 18 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM055O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 55 2 tags · 13 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM055O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 55 [55] 4 tags · 91 applicants · needed 25 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM055O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 55 [55] 25 tags · 2 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
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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 Montrose Cañon City Alamosa Grand Junction
GMU 55 within Colorado
43 431 47 471 48 481 49 50 521 53 54 551 56 561 57 58 63 64 65 67 681 86
GMU 55 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 464,562 ac · 82%
  • Private 61,020 ac · 11%
  • BLM 39,141 ac · 7%
  • County or city land 2,290 ac · 0%
  • State land 163 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 695 459 66%
2023 686 462 67%
2022 659 447 68%
2021 672 414 62%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 374 · 81% · 537 hunters, 70% success
  • Archery 31 · 7% · 83 hunters, 37% success
  • Muzzleloader 54 · 12% · 75 hunters, 72% 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