Escalante SWA - Upper Roubideau Tract: hunting rules and access

Escalante SWA - Upper Roubideau Tract is one of 11 parts of Escalante SWA that CPW lists on one page (7,612 acres in all); CPW's map draws this part as 2,167 acres. It is a State Wildlife Area in Mesa, Delta & Montrose Counties, Colorado, in game management unit 62. CPW lists big game, small game and waterfowl for it, and its rules for the property run to 8 lines: 3 on its page for the property and 5 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

Big game, 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 prohibited on the Hamilton and Lower Roubideau tracts March 15-July 31. Dog training prohibited on Hamilton and Lower Roubideau tracts during upland game or migratory bird seasons.
• B. Public access is prohibited in the Lower Roubideau tract youth area as posted, Aug. 1-March 14 except for youth fishing and hunting. No more than one mentor per youth hunter may engage in hunting. Mentor must be age 18 or older and hold a valid hunter education certificate or be born before January 1, 1949, and have a proper and valid hunting or fishing license.
• C. Field trials may be authorized in Feb., March, Aug. and Sept.

In CPW's regulations

• a. Public access is prohibited on the Hamilton and Lower Roubideau tracts from March 15 through July 31.
• b. Public access is prohibited in the Lower Roubideau tract youth area as posted from August 1 through March 14 except for youth fishing and hunting. No more than one mentor per youth hunter may engage in hunting.
• c. Field trials may be authorized during February, March, August, and September only.
• d. Dog training is prohibited on the Hamilton and Lower Roubideau tracts during any upland game bird or migratory bird season.
• e. Game birds listed in #009(B) of these regulations may be released by the Division or its agent for educational or training purposes without seasonal or numerical restrictions.

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 Escalante SWA - Upper Roubideau Tract 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 62, around Escalante SWA - Upper Roubideau Tract

• Elk in unit 62, 2024: 5,669 hunters in all seasons took 1,024 elk, 18% success (2023: 17% from 5,072 hunters). The rifle seasons alone: 3,107 hunters, 21%. Unit 62 elk by season
• Deer in unit 62, 2024: 1,374 hunters in all seasons took 599 deer, 44% success (2023: 46% from 1,403 hunters). The rifle seasons alone: 1,067 hunters, 48%. Unit 62 deer by season
• Unit 62: 1,378 square miles in Delta, Mesa, Montrose and Ouray Counties, 28.8% national forest and 39.4% BLM land, from 4,800 to 9,600 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 62

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 62 elk, unit 62 deer.

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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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