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Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 161

Colorado GMU 161 covers 261,039 acres and lies 32 miles north-east of Steamboat Springs and 59 miles north-east of Craig. 73% of it is public land, mostly national forest (40%) and BLM (25%). In 2024, 169 people hunted pronghorn here and took 120 — 71% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 90 tags here for 1 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 5 points.

Tags (2026):289 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:288 Hunter success (2024):71% Public land:73% Size:261,039 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in GMU 161, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

14 licenses on offer · 289 tags · 288 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
  • AE006W1R pronghorn either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 6 2 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • AF006O1A pronghorn female archery season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • AF006O1M pronghorn female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 2 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    50% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF006O2R pronghorn female rifle season 2 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 4 tags · 13 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF006O2R pronghorn female rifle season 2 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 80 tags · 4 applicants · needed 2 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF006W1R pronghorn female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 6 7 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • AF161O1R pronghorn female rifle season 1 GMU 161 [161] 3 tags · 3 applicants · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF161O1R pronghorn female rifle season 1 GMU 161 [161] 2 tags · 1 applicants · needed 5 pts · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed
  • AM006O1A pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 17 tags · 76 applicants · needed 5 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM006O1A pronghorn male archery season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 90 tags · 1 applicants · needed 5 pts · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed
  • AM006O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 7 tags · 55 applicants · needed 9 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM006O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 6 [6, 16, 17, 161, 171] 45 tags · 5 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM161O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 161 [161] 4 tags · 122 applicants · needed 25 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM161O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 161 [161] 25 tags · 6 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
—
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

Steamboat Springs Fort Collins Gypsum Boulder Lakewood
GMU 161 within Colorado
14 16 214 5 6 7
GMU 161 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 105,408 ac · 40%
  • Private 70,624 ac · 27%
  • BLM 66,274 ac · 25%
  • County or city land 17,969 ac · 7%
  • State land 661 ac · 0%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 42 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 169 120 71%
2023 193 124 64%
2022 114 73 64%
2021 99 60 61%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 68 · 57% · 70 hunters, 97% success
  • Archery 22 · 18% · 51 hunters, 43% success
  • Muzzleloader 29 · 24% · 48 hunters, 60% success

Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)

Harvest: 2024 Statewide Pronghorn Harvest

Harvest: 2023 Statewide Pronghorn Harvest Estimates

Harvest: 2022 Statewide Pronghorn Harvest

How we compute draw odds · All Colorado pronghorn hunts