Cline Ranch SWA: hunting rules and access

Cline Ranch SWA is 1,600 acres of State Wildlife Area in Park County, Colorado, in game management unit 500. CPW lists deer, elk, pronghorn, small game and waterfowl for it, and its rules for the property run to 12 lines: 5 on its page for the property and 7 in its regulations.

A State Wildlife Area has its own rules on top of the statewide season rules. How the kinds of public land differ.

What CPW lists for hunting here

Deer, Elk, Pronghorn, Small game, Waterfowl.

Fishing, as CPW lists it: Fishing Opportunities, Coldwater Stream.

A species on this list is one CPW names for the property. It still needs an open season, the right license for the unit, and nothing in the restrictions below against it on your dates.

Who may enter

A valid hunting or fishing license OR SWA pass is required for everyone 16 or older accessing this state wildlife area.

Restrictions on CPW's page for this property

• A. Public access is allowed in designated parking area only. No overnight parking.
• B. Fishing allowed only March 1-Sept. 30 and only in designated areas. Only occupants from a vehicle in the assigned parking space may fish the corresponding assigned area. Maximum 4 anglers per vehicle and 1 vehicle per parking space.
• C. Hunting access limited to occupants of a vehicle parked in assigned parking space. Maximum 4 hunters per vehicle.
• D. Discharging firearms or bows allowed only while hunting.
• E. Dog training and field trials are prohibited.

In CPW's regulations

• a. Public access is allowed in designated parking area only.
• b. Overnight parking is prohibited
• c. Fishing access is restricted to designated fishing areas (beats) only. Access to each fishing beat is restricted to occupants of the vehicle parked in the parking stall assigned to that beat (determined by corresponding number). No more than four anglers are allowed per vehicle, and only one vehicle is allowed per stall.
• d. Fishing is prohibited from October 1 through the end of February.
• e. Hunting access is limited to occupants of vehicles parked in designated parking stalls with a maximum of four hunters per vehicle.
• f. Discharge of firearms or bows is prohibited, except while hunting.
• g. Dog training and field trials are prohibited.

From CPW regulations, chapter W-9 (Wildlife Properties), 2 CCR 406-9, dated July 16, 2026.

Read it at the source before you go

The rules above are CPW's words, copied from CPW's page for Cline Ranch SWA as it read on October 8, 2026 and from the regulations for CPW properties. CPW can change them or close the property at any time, signs on the ground count, and a rule that names a season moves with that season each year.

Unit 500, around Cline Ranch SWA

• Elk in unit 500, 2024: 777 hunters in all seasons took 234 elk, 30% success (2023: 28% from 610 hunters). The rifle seasons alone: 549 hunters, 29%. Unit 500 elk by season
• Deer in unit 500, 2024: 108 hunters in all seasons took 20 deer, 19% success (2023: 22% from 110 hunters). The rifle seasons alone: 49 hunters, 27%. Unit 500 deer by season
• Unit 500: 162 square miles in Park County, 65.3% national forest and 1.2% BLM land, from 9,500 to 12,900 feet.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife survey estimates for the whole unit, private land included. They are not figures for this property, and whether elk or deer may be hunted here is in CPW's list above.

2026 elk and deer rifle hunt codes for unit 500

A code valid in the unit is not permission to hunt this property: the property's own list and restrictions decide that. Legal light is half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset at the coordinates above, on the Colorado clock; the state's printed table is the rule. Archery, muzzleloader, late and private-land codes are on the unit pages: unit 500 elk, unit 500 deer.

Nearest CPW properties to Cline Ranch SWA

Straight-line miles between the middles of the boundaries CPW maps, not road miles. A property can be much nearer at its edge.

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