Colorado GMU 106 mule deer: terrain, access and seasons

Unit-wide figures, computed 2026-10-19.

CPW counted 10 archery hunters in 2024; on so few, the success rate swings widely from year to year. Across all seasons, hunters rose by about a quarter between 2022 and 2024. Unit 106 is one of 3 units in CPW's Bijou Creek mule deer herd (DAU D-49), estimated at about 5,300 mule deer after the 2025 hunt, with 39 bucks per 100 does.

CPW reports no season 3a harvest figures for the unit. Across all seasons, hunters rose by about a quarter between 2022 and 2024. Unit 106 is one of 3 units in CPW's Bijou Creek mule deer herd (DAU D-49), estimated at about 5,300 mule deer after the 2025 hunt, with 39 bucks per 100 does.

CPW reports no season 2m harvest figures for the unit. Across all seasons, hunters rose by about a quarter between 2022 and 2024. Unit 106 is one of 3 units in CPW's Bijou Creek mule deer herd (DAU D-49), estimated at about 5,300 mule deer after the 2025 hunt, with 39 bucks per 100 does.

CPW reports no season 3m harvest figures for the unit. Across all seasons, hunters rose by about a quarter between 2022 and 2024. Unit 106 is one of 3 units in CPW's Bijou Creek mule deer herd (DAU D-49), estimated at about 5,300 mule deer after the 2025 hunt, with 39 bucks per 100 does.

CPW reports no first rifle harvest figures for the unit. Across all seasons, hunters rose by about a quarter between 2022 and 2024. Unit 106 is one of 3 units in CPW's Bijou Creek mule deer herd (DAU D-49), estimated at about 5,300 mule deer after the 2025 hunt, with 39 bucks per 100 does.

CPW reports no second rifle harvest figures for the unit. Across all seasons, hunters rose by about a quarter between 2022 and 2024. Unit 106 is one of 3 units in CPW's Bijou Creek mule deer herd (DAU D-49), estimated at about 5,300 mule deer after the 2025 hunt, with 39 bucks per 100 does.

CPW reports no late/special rifle harvest figures for the unit. Across all seasons, hunters rose by about a quarter between 2022 and 2024. Unit 106 is one of 3 units in CPW's Bijou Creek mule deer herd (DAU D-49), estimated at about 5,300 mule deer after the 2025 hunt, with 39 bucks per 100 does.

• Unit 105 → All seasons success 49% (2024)2% huntable public landDraw only
• Unit 107 → All seasons success 43% (2024)0% huntable public landDraw only
• Unit 99 → All seasons success 48% (2024)1% huntable public landDraw only
• Unit 112 → All seasons success 27% (2024)0% huntable public landDraw only
• Unit 111 → All seasons success 49% (2024)0% huntable public landDraw only

From each unit's own page; dates there.

• Closures. Forest, fire and road closure orders change through the season and aren't checked here. The managing agency's current order governs.
• Private ground. Land with no public hunting access is hunted only with the owner's permission, and the public-land share above leaves it out.
• This year's pressure. CPW's hunter numbers run a year or more behind the season you're planning.
• Animal locations. These are terrain, access, harvest and herd figures, and CPW's mapped ranges are range lines; none of them places an animal.

1. Deer statistics: population estimates and harvest reports — Colorado Parks and Wildlife
2. Colorado big game hunting: brochure, seasons and hunt codes — Colorado Parks and Wildlife
3. Game Management Unit boundaries (Hunting Atlas) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife On the map: unit boundaries, 2025.
4. COMaP: Colorado Ownership, Management and Protection — Colorado Natural Heritage Program, 2026-10-12 On the map: public land by manager, mapped 2026-07-29.
5. 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), 1/3 arc-second — U.S. Geological Survey On the map: shaded relief from 5 m and 10 m lidar elevation, mapped 2026-10-04; elevation bands and slope, mapped 2026-10-04.
6. LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type (LF 2024) — U.S. Geological Survey / USDA Forest Service, LF2024
7. 3DEP lidar point clouds (canopy height model) — U.S. Geological Survey
8. COTREX: Colorado Trail Explorer — Colorado Parks and Wildlife On the map: trailheads, 2024.
9. Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM) — USDA Forest Service On the map: roads by vehicle class, drawn as open on the selected season's opener, mapped 2026-08-22.
10. Highways and major roads — Colorado Department of Transportation On the map: highways, mapped 2026-07-31.
11. U.S. Drought Monitor — National Drought Mitigation Center, 2026-10-13
12. MOD13Q1 vegetation indices (NDVI), 250 m 16-day — NASA LP DAAC, 2026-09-29
13. Influence of well pad activity on winter habitat selection patterns of mule deer — Sawyer, Kauffman and Nielson, Journal of Wildlife Management 73(7), 2009
14. Sex-specific behaviors of hunted mule deer during rifle season — Rodgers, Sawyer, Mong, Stephens and Kauffman, Journal of Wildlife Management 85(2), 2021
15. Ungulate migrations of the western United States, volume 4 — Kauffman, Lowrey, Beaupre and others, USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5006, 2024
16. Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fact sheet — USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Colorado, Fact sheet, March 2000, 2000
17. Timing of seasonal migration in mule deer: effects of climate, plant phenology, and life-history characteristics — Monteith, Bleich, Stephenson, Pierce, Conner, Klaver and Bowyer, Ecosphere 2(4), 2011
18. Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) fire perimeters — National Interagency Fire Center On the map: burns over 100 acres since 2020, mapped 2026-06-29.
19. SNOTEL network: daily snow depth and snow water equivalent — USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service On the map: SNOTEL stations.
20. Gazetteer files, places — U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 On the map: towns, 2024.
21. Species Activity Mapping: mule deer seasonal ranges — Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 2025 On the map: CPW mapped ranges, 2025.