Colorado Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 86

Colorado GMU 86 covers 317,568 acres and lies 29 miles south-west of Cañon City and 52 miles north of Alamosa. 56% of it is public land, mostly national forest (43%) and BLM (12%). In 2024, 116 people hunted pronghorn here and took 55 — 47% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 256 tags here for 1 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):790 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:105 Hunter success (2024):47% Public land:56% Size:317,568 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in GMU 86, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

11 licenses on offer · 790 tags · 105 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
  • AF069O1M pronghorn female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691, 861] 2 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    Undersubscribed
  • AF069O1R pronghorn female rifle season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691, 861] 3 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 10% as 2nd choice
  • AF069O1R pronghorn female rifle season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691, 861] 2 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • AF069P1R pronghorn female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691, 861] 208 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants 40% as 2nd choice
  • AF069P1R pronghorn female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691, 861] 205 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 100% as 2nd choice
  • AF069P2R pronghorn female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691, 861] 256 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 67% as 2nd choice
  • AM069O1M pronghorn male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691, 861] 9 tags · 11 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM069O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691, 861] 20 tags · 69 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM069O1R pronghorn male rifle season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691, 861] 3 tags · 9 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM069P1R pronghorn male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691,861] 81 tags · 13 applicants · needed 3 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • AM069P1R pronghorn male rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84, 85, 86, 691,861] 1 tags · 1 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
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.
1 hunt not offered in 2026 is hidden — show discontinued hunts.

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.

Other licenses valid in GMU 86

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

The country

Cañon City Alamosa Colorado Springs Castle Rock Lakewood
GMU 86 within Colorado
118 481 55 551 56 561 57 58 581 59 591 67 68 681 682 69 691 79 791 82 84 861 Cañon City Pueblo Fountain
GMU 86 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 140,115 ac · 44%
  • National Forest 135,391 ac · 43%
  • BLM 37,789 ac · 12%
  • County or city land 2,948 ac · 1%
  • State land 1,317 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 5 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

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 116 55 47%
2023 106 43 41%
2022 60 15 25%
2021 107 49 46%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 50 · 91% · 81 hunters, 62% success
  • Archery 2 · 4% · 24 hunters, 8% success
  • Muzzleloader 3 · 5% · 11 hunters, 27% 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