COLORADO 2025 HUNT WEST DASHBOARD

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REC’D 1ST CHOICE: Unit 70 - Diverse & Roaded

HUNT CODE: E-M-070-O1-A

2024 Draw | 100% AT 0 PTS

SEPT. 2 - SEPT. 30, 2025 | 415 TAGS (RES & NR)

PROS:

With a relatively high success rate of 22%, unit 70 has been a limited license drawable without any points in the past. It’s got a very good combination of roadless and roaded areas to spread people out. Additionally, there are open parks, brushy country, and private lands issues in places allowing for a wide swath of hunting strategies to be used.

Key Hunting Areas:

  • N. Slope of Lone Cone

  • Disappointment Creek

  • NE. Slope of Sunshine Mtn.

CONS:

There are enough main road that there will likely be a lot of people on them. Plus, being close to Telluride means recreationalists AND hunters will be on the main trail systems. It’s brushy, so getting off trail can be a bear, but it’s worth taking the path less traveled in this type of a unit.

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NEW OTC CONVERTED UNITS

Draw odds and tags are unknown in these new limited-for-nonresident units

SECOND CHOICE: Units 21, 22, 30, 31, & 32 | A Glassing Man’s Unit

HUNT CODE: E-E-021-V1-A

SUMMARY

Mostly mid-lower elevations, this unit cluster was recently made into limited quota for nonresidents. While tag numbers are unknown, there was an estimated 16,110 elk here in 2023. There are a lot of roads on top of canyons, meaning you hunt downhill every day. Plus, it’s mostly old burns, brushy country, and largely aspen north slopes where the elk like to bed for the day. It could be a hot hunt with little bugling after the sun comes up and before it goes down, but it lays out in a way it could be less physical if you find them from your spotting scope or binoculars.

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THIRD CHOICE: Units 14 & 214 | Backcountry w/ Burns

HUNT CODE: E-E-014-V1-A

SUMMARY

More roadless than the other two units, 14 and 214 offer some good combinations of glassable burned country as well as classic high country and thick timber. There are a few key private land pieces you can do the “hustle” move on, but for the most part a guy will want to cover a lot of country out here to find the pockets of elk. In the past, it’s been a popular unit for good hunters because you can get away from folks in the backcountry.

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