Texas Deer · Lake McClellan Recreation Area
Texas Lake McClellan Recreation Area covers 1,401 acres and lies 54 miles east of Amarillo. 100% of it is public land, mostly national forest (100%). In 2025, 2 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 4 (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, YDE-LM, put up 5 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw.
2 licenses
first choice, NR
not published
100% Forest Service
1,401 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in Lake McClellan Recreation Area
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YDA-LM · youth | Youth Only Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike - Lake McClellan Recreation Area | 2% (small sample) | — | |
| YDE-LM · youth | Youth Only Gun Deer - Either Sex - Lake McClellan Recreation Area | 5% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $318 ($3 to apply). Deadlines: Sep 1, 2027 (expected) for Youth Only Gun Deer - Either Sex (YDE) · Sep 15, 2027 (expected) for Youth Only Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike (YDA). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
All deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 5 | 9 |
| 2024 (summed) | 5 | 9 |
| 2023 (summed) | 6 | 11 |
| 2022 (summed) | 5 | 7 |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 (summed) | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 (summed) | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 (summed) | 3 | 6 |
| 2021 (summed) | 6 | 11 |
| 2020 (summed) | 6 | 8 |
| 2019 (summed) | 7 | 11 |
| 2018 (summed) | 6 | 10 |
| 2017 (summed) | 5 | 12 |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| White-tailed deer | 2 | 4 | 100% |
| Yde | 5 | 9 | 100% |
2025 split: firearm 4 (100%) (more than one per hunter)
What Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season.
The Ground
| National Forest | 1,400 ac | 100% |
| Private | 1 ac | <1% |
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2023 PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads.
What the Agency Says About the Area
TPWD hunt area type: Federal; 1,440 acres published as available for TPWD drawn hunts
▸ Sources 15
- TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026 Drawn Hunts fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026 Outdoor Annual fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2022-23 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2021-22 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2020-21 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2019-20 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2018-19 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2017-18 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- USDA Forest Service, Enterprise Data Warehouse 2026 USFS Surface Ownership Parcels boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2023 PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026-27 Public Hunt Drawing System area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department'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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