Colorado land ownership map for hunters
Who manages the ground, where the parcel lines run, and whose name is on the county's record for the spot you tap. Free, with no account.
Open the ownership map All the map does
What it shows
- Land ownership colours. Bureau of Land Management ground, national forest, state land and private land, each in its own colour.
- Parcel lines from county records, when you zoom in.
- The owner on record. Tap inside a parcel and choose "What is here" for the name on the county's parcel record, with the unit, the land manager and the elevation.
- State wildlife areas and walk-in access fields from Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and wilderness areas.
- National forest lines. The outer line of each forest, which is not a property line: private ground sits inside most national forests.
How to read it without getting it wrong
- The colours show the lie of the land, not the exact line. Close to a boundary, use the parcel lines and the owner's name, not the edge of a colour.
- Public does not always mean you can get to it. A square of public ground with private land on every side has no legal way in unless a public road or trail reaches it. Check how you get there, not only where it is.
- State land is not all open to hunting. State trust land is open only where it is enrolled for public access, and each state wildlife area has its own rules. The rules for each are in the state property rules.
- In Colorado, private land does not have to be posted. It is the hunter's job to know where they are.
Where it comes from
Land management: Bureau of Land Management, surface management agency map. Parcels and owners: Colorado Public Parcels, from the counties through the Governor's Office of Information Technology. State wildlife areas and walk-in access: Colorado Parks and Wildlife. For the kinds of public land and what each allows, read Colorado public land types for hunters.
Every layer is somebody's record, and records can be wrong or out of date. A line on a map is not a fence or a sign. When the ground and the map disagree, stay out.
The map shows the ground. A plan tells you where to go.
The map is free. A FilledTag hunt plan is the paid part: for your tag and where you drive from, one exact plan with a legal place to park, a camp, morning and evening spots and the walk between them, checked against land records.