Colorado State Wildlife Area and State Trust Land hunting rules
Public land in Colorado is not one set of rules. Every State Wildlife Area and every State Trust Land open through Colorado Parks and Wildlife has its own: what may be hunted, who may enter, and dates when it is closed or kept for one kind of hunting. Here are all 721 of them, each with the rules CPW prints for it.
721 properties
Why this matters before you hunt one
- A property can be open to one hunt and shut to another on the same day. Atwood State Wildlife Area, for one, allows only deer hunting on the opening weekend of the plains rifle deer season, so a rabbit hunter with a valid license cannot hunt it that weekend.
- State Trust Land is closed unless it is on the list. Only parcels CPW leases are open to the public, most of them for part of the year. The dates are in each parcel's rules.
- You need more than a hunting license on some. Each property page gives the access requirement as CPW prints it.
- Rules that name a season move every year. A rule about "opening weekend of the regular plains rifle deer season" falls on different dates each fall.
Where this comes from
Each property's rules are copied from its own page on the Colorado Parks and Wildlife website and from CPW regulations, chapter W-9 (Wildlife Properties), 2 CCR 406-9, dated July 16, 2026. Every property page gives the day CPW's page was read. CPW can change a rule or close a property at any time, so read CPW's own page, linked from each property, before you go.
Have a tag for this fall?
A FilledTag plan checks the rules of any CPW property it uses against your species and your dates, and gives you one exact plan: where to park, camp and sit, with every pin checked against public land and road rules.