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Colorado Deer — GMU 69

Colorado GMU 69 covers 186,737 acres and lies 11 miles south of Cañon City and 35 miles west of Pueblo. 36% of it is public land, mostly national forest (26%) and BLM (6%). In 2024, 917 people hunted deer here and took 441 — 48% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 562 tags here for 33 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):3,038 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:496 Hunter success (2024):48% Public land:36% Size:186,737 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 69, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

21 licenses on offer · 3,038 tags · 496 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
  • DE069O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 41 tags · 63 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DE069O1A deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 335 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF069L1R deer female rifle late season GMU 69 [on the S by a straight] 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DF069O1M deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 2 tags · 3 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF069O1M deer female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 50 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF069P2R deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 100 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF069P2R deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 100 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF069P3R deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 101 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DF069P3R deer female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 100 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM069O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 42 tags · 43 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    75% Likely draw 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM069O1M deer male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 3 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM069O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 69 86 tags · 111 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM069O2R deer male rifle season 2 GMU 69 7 tags · 11 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM069O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 103 tags · 133 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM069O3R deer male rifle season 3 GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 16 tags · 7 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM069O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 69 16 tags · 36 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM069O4R deer male rifle season 4 GMU 69 1 tags · 4 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • DM069P2R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 562 tags · 33 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 30% as 2nd choice
  • DM069P2R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 550 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 17% as 2nd choice
  • DM069P3R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 413 tags · 44 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 4% as 2nd choice
  • DM069P3R deer male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84, 86, 691, 861] 410 tags · 5 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 33% 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
—
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
—
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

Cañon City Colorado Springs Alamosa Castle Rock Lakewood
GMU 69 within Colorado
591 691 84 86 Cañon City
GMU 69 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

  • Private 119,837 ac · 64%
  • National Forest 48,943 ac · 26%
  • BLM 12,000 ac · 6%
  • County or city land 4,711 ac · 3%
  • State land 1,240 ac · 1%
  • Other public 4 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 917 441 48%
2023 1,090 521 48%
2022 996 482 48%
2021 980 528 54%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 365 · 83% · 708 hunters, 52% success
  • Archery 44 · 10% · 94 hunters, 47% success
  • Muzzleloader 32 · 7% · 115 hunters, 28% 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