Colorado Deer · GMU 90
Colorado GMU 90 covers 239,317 acres and lies 28 miles north-east of Sterling and 68 miles north-east of Fort Morgan. 6% of it is public land, mostly state land (6%). In 2024, 42 people hunted deer here and took 21, a 49% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DE087O2X, put up 275 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 1 nonresident first-choice applicant.
12 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
6% State
239,317 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.
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Oct 1 – Dec 31
- Tags / Apps
- 275 / 1
- If Drawn
- $636.03
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Oct 10–18
- Tags / Apps
- 25 / 1
- If Drawn
- $636.03
Every License in GMU 90
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE087O1A Standard | Deer either-sex archery season 1 GMU 87 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| DE087O2X Standard | Deer either-sex rifle (season choice) season 2 GMU 87 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DE087O2X Youth | Deer either-sex rifle (season choice) season 2 GMU 87 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DF087O2M Standard | Deer female muzzleloader season 2 GMU 87 | not open | — | |
| DF087O2X Standard | Deer female rifle (season choice) season 2 GMU 87 | — | — | |
| DF090L1R Standard | Deer female rifle late season GMU 90 | not open | — | |
| DF090O1R Standard | Deer female rifle season 1 GMU 90 | not open | — | |
| DF090O1R Youth | Deer female rifle season 1 GMU 90 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DM087O2M Standard | Deer male muzzleloader season 2 GMU 87 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| DM090L1R Standard | Deer male rifle late season GMU 90 | not open | — | |
| DM090O1R Standard | Deer male rifle season 1 GMU 90 | not open | — | |
| DM090O1R Youth | Deer male rifle season 1 GMU 90 | 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: DF004P5A, 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 | 42 | 21 | 49% |
| 2023 | 76 | 28 | 37% |
| 2022 | 76 | 43 | 56% |
| 2021 | 65 | 23 | 35% |
2024 split: rifle 21 (100%) from 39 hunters, 54%, muzzleloader 0 (0%)
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 | 224,333 ac | 94% |
| State land | 14,596 ac | 6% |
| BLM | 160 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 0 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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