Washington Deer — GMU 454
Issaquah
Washington GMU 454 covers 721,794 acres and lies 2 miles south-west of Bellevue. 10% of it is public land, mostly county or city land (5%) and state trust land (3%). In 2025, hunters took 164 deer here.
Your chance of drawing here
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered a deer license in GMU 454 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Washington deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 651,977 ac · 90%
- County or city land 35,048 ac · 5%
- State trust land 23,135 ac · 3%
- State land 10,964 ac · 2%
- Other public 511 ac · 0%
- BLM 83 ac · 0%
- Department of Defense 47 ac · 0%
- National Forest 26 ac · 0%
Source: WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands' (NDMPL) layer, federal/state/county/city ownership parcels
How the hunting has gone
What Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Washington's figures come from mandatory hunter reports. WDFW credits a multi-GMU special-permit hunt's harvest to every GMU it spans rather than splitting it, so unit totals add up to more than the statewide total.
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 164 |
| 2024 | 198 |
| 2023 | 188 |
| 2022 | 169 |
| 2021 | 192 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 42 · 31% · 148 hunters, 28% success
- Firearm 81 · 60% · 241 hunters, 34% success
- Muzzleloader 12 · 9% · 85 hunters, 14% success
Boundary: WDFW Hunt Planner 'UnitSpatial' polygon layer (WP_HuntPlanner/Regulation/MapServer/0)
Harvest: WDFW Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table (WP_HuntPlanner/Harvest/MapServer/1)