Colorado unit 30 2nd Deer season Hunting

[mickeyelk]

Hi. New to this forum. Looking for some basic info about the area. I have a toyhauler that I would like to take on the hunt. From what I have read it gets very slippery when it rain. Where is the best place to park this toyhauler and and travel from it to areas to hunt deer? Closest? Thanks for any replys.

 

[jray5740]

You would be surprised the places some guys get their $100k trailers into in the Colorado mountains. I can tell you there are places to park them on the passes in this unit and at lower elevations.......but your gonna be next to 20 other guys with the same rigs hunting the same 10 sq miles of this huge unit. The roads are pretty bad when weather rolls in and I always wonder to myself how those guys get their trailers out of places I'm having a hard time with in a pickup with no trailer.

On the plus side there are some good deer up that way. Their are also a ton of people and the area is very steep so its hard to cover mileage......good area to glass across canyons however to far to shoot and hard to cross over and make a stalk due to terrain and vegetation. The flatter areas of the unit could be glassed easier but depending on weather you may be wasting time if its still warm at lower elevations.

 

[mickeyelk]

You would be surprised the places some guys get their $100k trailers into in the Colorado mountains. I can tell you there are places to park them on the passes in this unit and at lower elevations.......but your gonna be next to 20 other guys with the same rigs hunting the same 10 sq miles of this huge unit. The roads are pretty bad when weather rolls in and I always wonder to myself how those guys get their trailers out of places I'm having a hard time with in a pickup with no trailer.

On the plus side there are some good deer up that way. Their are also a ton of people and the area is very steep so its hard to cover mileage......good area to glass across canyons however to far to shoot and hard to cross over and make a stalk due to terrain and vegetation. The flatter areas of the unit could be glassed easier but depending on weather you may be wasting time if its still warm at lower elevations.

Thanks for the reply. I was talking to another person and he said to go thru Roosevelt and then south. Hopefully the roads that direction will be better. Thanks again for the reply

 

[jray5740]

Just to add to this for your info sake, there are plenty of areas to get away from other hunters.....and you really can get into the back country a bit here......but its work few are willing to do because the bookcliffs are steep and hard hunting. My biggest suggestion to you is look at onX till your eyes bleed.......the longer I look at an area it seems I find more and more access points to areas where 99.9% overlook

 

[mickeyelk]

Just to add to this for your info sake, there are plenty of areas to get away from other hunters.....and you really can get into the back country a bit here......but its work few are willing to do because the bookcliffs are steep and hard hunting. My biggest suggestion to you is look at onX till your eyes bleed.......the longer I look at an area it seems I find more and more access points to areas where 99.9% overlook

Thanks again. I'm currently doing that now. Thanks