Colorado white-tailed deer range map
Where white-tailed deer live in Colorado, as Colorado Parks and Wildlife maps it, with separate maps for winter. Free, over unit boundaries, land ownership and the topo map, with no account.
Open the white-tailed deer range map All the map does
The white-tailed deer range maps
4 maps are published for this animal. Switch on one or several. "Show it" opens the hunting map with that range drawn.
| Range | What it is | CPW's name for it | Mapped | Last changed | On the map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-round range | All the country white-tailed deer are known to use, at any time of year. CPW's definition: The area which encompasses all known seasonal activity areas within the observed range of a population of white-tailed deer. | White-tailed Deer Overall Range | 25 areas | September 2025 | Show it |
| Winter range | Where most white-tailed deer spend an ordinary winter. CPW's definition: That part of the range where 90 percent of the individuals are located during the average five winters out of ten from the first heavy snowfall to spring green-up, or during a site specific period of winter as defined for each Data Analysis Unit. | White-tailed Deer Winter Range | 54 areas | September 2025 | Show it |
| Concentration area | Ground that holds more white-tailed deer than the country around it. CPW's definition: Corridors of riparian habitat along river or stream courses that support higher populations of white-tailed deer and serve as travel corridors. | White-tailed Deer Concentration Area | 61 areas | September 2025 | Show it |
| Highway crossings | Stretches of road that white-tailed deer commonly cross. CPW's definition: Specific highway areas near riparian habitat zones that have historically been sites of substantial white-tailed deer mortalities. | White-tailed Deer Highway Crossing | 162 areas | August 2025 | Show it |
Counts and dates are from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's map service, read October 13, 2026. CPW revises these maps a region at a time, each region about every four years.
How to read a range map
- It is a broad area, not a sighting. Biologists and district wildlife managers draw these areas from what they know of each herd or population. It does not show where an animal is today.
- Weather, hunting pressure and the year all move animals. Winter range is where most are in an ordinary winter. In a mild fall they can be well above it on opening day, and after a hard storm well into it.
- Being inside a mapped range gives no right to hunt the ground. Much winter range is private. Switch on land ownership and tap the spot for the owner on record.
- Your license names the units it is good in. Switch on unit boundaries to see the range and the unit line together.
Nothing on this map promises an animal. It is the published record of where the animal generally lives, and the hunting is still yours to do.
Units, seasons and licenses
Every deer unit has its own page with seasons, licenses and harvest figures: Colorado deer units. Look up any license by its code under Colorado hunt codes, and put units side by side with the unit comparison.
What is left off, on purpose
Colorado Parks and Wildlife also maps single spots an animal comes back to, such as mineral licks, water sources and roost sites, and it maps migration. Those are left off this map. That is part of our fair chase promise: published public maps of broad areas only, and never a hunter's own sightings.
Other big game range maps
Elk, Mule deer, Moose, Pronghorn, Bighorn sheep, Mountain goat, Black bear, Mountain lion. Small game and birds: wild turkey, dusky grouse, pheasant.
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.