Texas Deer · Palmetto SP
Texas Palmetto SP covers 308 acres and lies 29 miles south-east of San Marcos and 50 miles south of Austin. 100% of it is public land, mostly state land (100%). In 2025, 1 person hunted white-tailed deer here and took 2 (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, EYS-PG, put up 4 tags (all residencies) in the 2024 draw.
No more draws here. The last one was 2024.
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department held its 2025 deer draw without Palmetto SP. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Texas deer hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
1 license
first choice, NR
not published
100% State
308 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in Palmetto SP
The last draw held in Palmetto SP was 2024. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EYS-PG · youth | E-Postcard Youth Deer Antlerless/Spike - Palmetto SP | 1% (small sample) | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2024 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2024 result: YDA-PG.
Draw results: TPWD 2025-2026 Drawn Hunt Catalog, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $318 ($3 to apply). Deadlines: Sep 15, 2027 (expected) for Youth Only Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike (YDA) · Oct 1, 2027 (expected) for E-Postcard-Youth Deer Antlerless/Spike (EYS). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
All deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 (summed) | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2023 (summed) | 4 | 9 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 1 | 2 | — |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| White-tailed deer | 1 | 2 | 100% |
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 hunt 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
| State land | 308 ac | 100% |
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: State Park Unit; 291 acres published as available for TPWD drawn hunts
▸ Sources 9
- TPWD 2025-2026 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 2026 State Parks Boundaries 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 2024 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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