Oregon hunting units

Unit 1

Crater Lake Np

The high Cascade crest around Crater Lake — a spectacular deer, elk, and bear landscape that is a national park where hunting is closed; the game is on the surrounding forest.

Unit 10

Saddle Mtn

Astoria-to-Clatskanie coast-range timber and the Jewell elk country — Oregon's premier Roosevelt elk ground with a strong blacktail and bear undercurrent.

Unit 11

Scappoose

Vernonia-to-Sauvie Island timber and river bottoms in Portland's backyard — a spike-or-better blacktail and Roosevelt elk unit that hunts hard under heavy pressure and locked gates.

Unit 12

Wilson

Rain-forest coast unit between Tillamook and Nehalem Bays — OTC Roosevelt elk and blacktail on big public timber.

Unit 14

Trask

Big Tillamook State Forest timber from McMinnville's farms out to the Salmon River coast — general Roosevelt elk and blacktail on a logging-road maze.

Unit 15

Willamette

The valley floor unit — rich farmland, damage-herd elk, and blacktail on the edges, but only 2% public and permission-driven.

Unit 16

Santiam

West Cascades blacktail-and-Roosevelt country, 63% public, from farm valley to glaciated wilderness.

Unit 19

Mckenzie

The McKenzie River corridor from valley farmland to the Three Sisters — 60% public, blacktail-and-Roosevelt West Cascades country.

Unit 17

Stott Mtn

Compact mid-coast timber unit between the Siletz and Salmon rivers — Roosevelt elk and blacktail on a mix of state forest, BLM, and private timber.

Unit 18

Alsea

Marys Peak to the Pacific — a classic mid-coast Roosevelt elk and blacktail unit stitched from timber-company checkerboard.

Unit 20

Siuslaw

Siuslaw and Umpqua river country to the dunes — a coastal Roosevelt elk and blacktail unit on a heavy timber checkerboard.

Unit 21

Indigo

High-Cascade timber unit above Oakridge — blacktail and Roosevelt elk on big Willamette and Umpqua National Forest ground, with Diamond Peak Wilderness on the crest.

Unit 22

Dixon

North Umpqua timber country from Shady Cove to Toketee — heavily public Umpqua National Forest with blacktail, Roosevelt elk, bear, and cougar.

Unit 23

Melrose

Low-elevation Umpqua Valley unit around Roseburg — mostly private industrial timber and oak country, with a famous BLM elk refuge at North Bank.

Unit 24

Tioga

Steep sea-to-3,200-ft coastal timber around Coos Bay — blacktail and Roosevelt elk on the Elliott State Forest and a checkerboard of private timber.

Unit 25

Sixes

Port Orford-to-Gold Beach coast unit — a premier over-the-counter archery Roosevelt elk destination on mostly private timber.

Unit 26

Powers

South Fork Coquille and Wild Rogue high country — one of Oregon's best units for mature Roosevelt bulls, with trophy blacktail on nearly half public land.

Unit 27

Chetco

Wild Kalmiopsis country from Gold Beach to Grants Pass — big public land, sleeper trophy blacktail, and marginal elk.

Unit 28

Applegate

The Applegate high country south of Grants Pass and Medford — trophy blacktail and a legendary hard-to-draw muzzleloader hunt.

Unit 29

Evans Creek

Checkerboard blacktail country north of the Rogue — one of the best over-the-counter shots at a mature Columbia blacktail.

Unit 30

Rogue

Brushy west-slope Cascade timber above Medford that grows heavy blacktails and big Roosevelt bulls despite crowds.

Unit 31

Keno

Cascade east-slope timber from Klamath Falls to Mt. McLoughlin — blacktails, Roosevelt elk, and a rugged transition landscape.

Unit 32

Klamath Falls

One of Oregon's better mature mule deer units — pine ridges, rimrock, and ag valleys around Klamath Falls.

Unit 33

Sprague

Flat, timbered marsh-and-pine country in the Klamath Basin where deer come easier than elk.

Unit 34

Upper Deschutes

High-pressure Cascade-front country outside Bend where a bull elk is one of the state's hardest tags.

Unit 35

Paulina

Wide-open Fort Rock country east of Bend — fair for deer and elk, excellent for pronghorn.

Unit 36

Maury

Controlled-draw mule deer, up-and-coming public-land elk, and pronghorn in the juniper-and-rimrock Maury Mountains southeast of Prineville.

Unit 37

Ochoco

Controlled-draw elk-and-deer country in the timbered Ochoco Mountains east of Prineville.

Unit 38

Grizzly

A big, mostly private draw unit of high-desert plains and river canyons between Madras and Mitchell where quality lives on private ground.

Unit 39

Metolius

Cascade-crest-to-desert public-land unit famous for some of Oregon's best late-season mule deer, from Camp Sherman's ponderosa to Mount Jefferson's ice.

Unit 40

Maupin

A low-public, private-wheat-and-juniper mule deer unit wrapped around the Deschutes River canyon.

Unit 41

White River

The east-slope deer-and-elk winter-range unit below Mount Hood, anchored by the White River Wildlife Area.

Unit 42

Hood

A high-public Mount Hood National Forest unit of wet-Cascade blacktail and Roosevelt elk on the north and west flanks of the mountain.

Unit 43

Biggs

Wheat-plateau and river-canyon unit holding some of Oregon's healthiest California bighorn herds.

Unit 44

Columbia Basin

Sprawling private ag unit along the Columbia where mule deer hide in the cover and public ground is scarce.

Unit 45

Fossil

John Day River canyon and juniper-plateau unit blending mule deer, Rocky Mountain elk and canyon bighorn.

Unit 46

Murderers Creek

Oregon's flagship limited-entry mule deer unit, anchored by the Aldrich Mountains and Strawberry Range.

Unit 47

Northside

A big, roaded Blue Mountains unit north of John Day where public timber meets private valley ranchland.

Unit 48

Heppner

Morrow County wheat country rising into the Umatilla National Forest, with dependable mule deer and at-objective elk.

Unit 49

Ukiah

Pendleton-to-the-Blues elk country anchored by the Bridge Creek winter range and the North Fork John Day Wilderness.

Unit 50

Desolation

High, timbered Elkhorn-and-Greenhorn wilderness unit — 87% public, a difficult but genuine backcountry bull-elk and summer mule deer hunt.

Unit 51

Sumpter

Elkhorn Mountains to the Ironside high desert — a big, mixed-ownership unit spanning Oregon's highest Blue Mountain peaks and low sage-and-ranch country.

Unit 52

Starkey

La Grande's home unit and the famous Starkey Experimental Forest — heavy pressure, controlled-hunt elk and mule deer, with an active USFS elk-and-deer research area at its core.

Unit 56

Wenaha

Rugged Wenaha-Tucannon canyon country in Oregon's far northeast — trophy elk, mountain goats and bighorns on 72 percent public land.

Unit 57

Sled Springs

Chesnimnus timber-plateau country in Wallowa County — one of northeast Oregon's best whitetail units, mostly private industrial forest.

Unit 59

Snake River

Hells Canyon breaks between the Imnaha and Snake — 92 percent public, foot-and-horse trophy country for bighorn, elk, mule deer and goats.

Unit 53

Catherine Creek

Grande Ronde valley edge climbing into the western Wallowas — steady, above-objective mule deer buck ratios and steep-country Rocky Mountain elk.

Unit 54

Mount Emily

One of Oregon's fabled 'Big 3' trophy elk units — big bulls, mature mule deer and valley whitetails above La Grande and Pendleton.

Unit 55

Walla Walla

A compact 'Big 3' trophy elk unit on the Oregon-Washington line — high-quality bulls above Tollgate with a few big mule deer and canyon whitetails.

Unit 58

Chesnimnus

Snake River breaks and Joseph Creek canyons where good bulls hide in the timber stringers

Unit 60

Minam

The Eagle Cap high country — Oregon's biggest elk herd and record-book bulls, goats and rams for hunters willing to go deep

Unit 61

Imnaha

The east face of the Wallowas and the upper Imnaha — wilderness elk high, canyon country low

Unit 62

Pine Creek

From the Eagle Mountains crest down to the Snake River — high-country elk and deer above, canyon breaks and pronghorn below

Unit 63

Keating

Eagle Mountains high country dropping to the Powder River, with elk, mule deer, whitetails and pronghorn on largely unblocked public land

Unit 64

Lookout Mtn

Snake River breaks between I-84 and Brownlee, one of the West's best trophy Rocky Mountain bighorn units

Unit 65

Beulah

A sprawling unit from the Snake River sage flats to the Malheur National Forest, on a major mule deer migration corridor

Unit 66

Malheur River

A big, mixed unit straddling the Malheur National Forest timber on the west and Vale BLM juniper-sage desert on the east — mule deer, Rocky Mountain elk, and pronghorn all on one tag map.

Unit 67

Owyhee

Owyhee canyonlands high desert — trophy California bighorn, record-book pronghorn, vast BLM.

Unit 68

Whitehorse

Oregon's remote southeast corner — a 90%-public desert unit of the Trout Creek and Oregon Canyon Mountains famed for California bighorn and pronghorn.

Unit 69

Steens Mtn

The mile-high Steens Mountain fault block over the Alvord Desert — a wilderness-backed unit of California bighorn, mule deer, and pronghorn.

Unit 70

Beatys Butte

Vast SE Oregon high-desert pronghorn country wrapped around Hart Mountain and Beatys Butte.

Unit 71

Juniper

Juniper-choked sagebrush steppe where 89% public means the challenge is deer density, not access.

Unit 73

Wagontire

Remote, wide-open pronghorn country where 85% public land meets the loneliest roads in Oregon.

Unit 72

Silvies

Desert-to-timber unit north of Burns that grows big bulls and above-objective bucks.

Unit 74

Warner

Lakeview's home unit — Warner Valley desert lakes climbing to the fault-block spine of the Warner Mountains and Crane Mountain.

Unit 75

Interstate

The big cross-border Fremont plateau unit — ponderosa forest, reservoirs and rims straddling the Oregon-California line around Lakeview and Bly.

Unit 76

Silver Lake

Silver Lake's pine-and-marsh country — Yamsay Mountain, the Sycan and Williamson headwaters, and the edge of Klamath Marsh.

Unit 77

Fort Rock

Sagebrush basins and pine flats between Fort Rock and the Cascade crest, south of Bend and west of Crater Lake.

Hunt Area AD-01

Aldrich (AD-01)

Aldrich Mountain and Murderers Creek mule deer country south of the John Day River — high public-land access, a herd ODFW rates at extreme concern.

Hunt Area CR-01

Crooked River (CR-01)

Ochoco and Maury Mountain mule deer country east of Prineville — a Crooked River herd ODFW rates at extreme concern.

Hunt Area DE-01

Deschutes (DE-01)

Bend's backyard hunt area: Cascade-crest wilderness down to lodgepole and lava flats, hunting a closely watched, declining mule deer herd.

Hunt Area DG-01

Devils Garden (DG-01)

The northeast high-desert corner of the Devils Garden herd: sagebrush, juniper and lava-rock BLM country from Christmas Valley to the Wagontire fringe — mostly public, mostly open.

Hunt Area DG-02

Devils Garden (DG-02)

The big northwest quarter of the Devils Garden herd: Deschutes National Forest ponderosa and lodgepole around Newberry Volcano spilling east into high-desert sage — the largest and most varied Devils Garden area.

Hunt Area DG-03

Devils Garden (DG-03)

The southwest forest block of the Devils Garden herd: lodgepole and ponderosa from the Cascade crest at Highway 58 down to the Fort Rock basin — essentially the old Fort Rock Unit reborn.

Hunt Area DG-04

Devils Garden (DG-04)

The southern anchor of the Devils Garden herd: Yamsay Mountain and the upper Williamson headwaters down to the Sycan — the old Silver Lake Unit under a new name.

Hunt Area DO-01

DeGarmo (DO-01)

Warner rim-and-valley country: fault-block rims, a chain of desert lakes, and quality-over-quantity Great Basin mule deer.

Hunt Area DO-02

DeGarmo (DO-02)

The Hart Mountain refuge itself: a 435-square-mile ungrazed fault-block sanctuary with limited-entry bow and muzzleloader deer hunts.

Hunt Area EH-01

Elkhorn (EH-01)

The southern Elkhorns: a 9,000-foot granite crest above Baker Valley ranch country — legacy Sumpter-unit mule deer with a river-bottom whitetail bonus.

Hunt Area EH-02

Elkhorn (EH-02)

The northern Elkhorn herd range: legacy Starkey-unit timber country on the upper Grande Ronde, with a genuine valley-fringe whitetail hunt.

Hunt Area FX-01

Fox (FX-01)

The Fox range's big-public backcountry: Desolation-unit wilderness and Greenhorn high country between the forks of the John Day.

Hunt Area FX-02

Fox (FX-02)

Fox Valley ranch country and Malheur forest fringe north of the John Day — the old Northside unit, reborn as the Fox herd's core.

Hunt Area FX-03

Fox (FX-03)

The Fox range's breaks-and-pine workhorse: Heppner forest, Kinzua timber, and John Day river canyons around Monument and Spray.

Hunt Area HX-01

Helix (HX-01)

Columbia Basin wheat country: wide-open private-land deer opportunity, Umatilla refuge draw hunts, and knock-on-doors access.

Hunt Area JK-01

Jacknife (JK-01)

Wheat-plateau and river-canyon mule deer country between the Deschutes and the lower John Day — big private ground, spectacular canyon breaks.

Hunt Area JT-01

Juntura (JT-01)

The old Beulah country: Malheur River rimrock and Castle Rock juniper breaks climbing from Vale's ag fringe to 7,800-foot Ironside Mountain.

Hunt Area JT-02

Juntura (JT-02)

The biggest, emptiest Juntura area: 73 percent public sage desert from the Malheur River canyon to the west rim of Owyhee Reservoir.

Hunt Area JT-03

Juntura (JT-03)

Western Juntura country: Stinkingwater rims and Drewsey ranch valleys climbing from the Harney Basin to southern Malheur National Forest pine.

Hunt Area KB-01

Klamath Basin (KB-01)

Big, high-desert-to-pine eastern basin: mule deer, elk, and Bootleg Fire regrowth on Green Diamond and Fremont-Winema ground.

Hunt Area KB-02

Klamath Basin (KB-02)

The western basin around Upper Klamath Lake: marsh-edge and pine-plateau mule deer from Klamath Falls to Crater Lake's doorstep.

Hunt Area KE-01

Keno (KE-01)

The Cascade-crest transition unit: mule deer and blacktails mix from the Klamath River canyon to the Sky Lakes high country.

Hunt Area MC-01

Mid-Columbia (MC-01)

The Dalles to the Deschutes: oak-pine transition deer country with cherry-orchard damage hunts and a real public-land core.

Hunt Area MC-02

Mid-Columbia (MC-02)

Hood River's orchard valley ringed by Mt. Hood timber — a compact Gorge unit in the blacktail–mule deer transition zone.

Hunt Area NB-01

North Blues (NB-01)

The Blue Mountain front southeast of Pendleton — legacy Ukiah unit timber, canyon breaks, and creek-bottom edges.

Hunt Area NB-02

North Blues (NB-02)

Private wheat, CRP, and foothill canyon country below the Umatilla National Forest — a permission-and-private-lands hunt, honestly stated.

Hunt Area NE-01

Northeast (NE-01)

Wallowa Valley to Hells Canyon: Eagle Cap high-country mule deer stacked over a whitetail-rich valley floor.

Hunt Area NE-02

Northeast (NE-02)

Zumwalt Prairie rims to the Snake: open-country mule deer and canyon whitetails in the old Chesnimnus unit.

Hunt Area NE-03

Northeast (NE-03)

Sled Springs timber plateau and the lower Grande Ronde canyon — prime NE Oregon whitetail country with a new pay-to-play access reality.

Hunt Area NE-04

Northeast (NE-04)

The old Wenaha unit reborn: 73% public wilderness canyon country where mule deer, big whitetails, and legendary elk share the breaks above Troy.

Hunt Area NE-05

Northeast (NE-05)

The old Walla Walla unit: private wheat-and-canyon front country climbing to a small, roaded national-forest highland above Milton-Freewater.

Hunt Area NE-06

Northeast (NE-06)

The old Mt. Emily unit: 770 square miles of Blues canyons, wilderness forks, and whitetail fringe framed by I-84, Hwy 11, and the Grande Ronde Valley.

Hunt Area PB-01

Poverty Basin (PB-01)

Oregon's ocean of sage: 4,400 square miles of BLM desert between Hart Mountain and the Catlow rim, where a sparse herd carries strong buck ratios for hunters willing to burn miles.

Hunt Area PH-01

Painted Hills (PH-01)

Rimrock, sage, and juniper deer country around Mitchell and the Painted Hills — scattered mule deer on a mostly-private landscape ODFW rates at extreme concern.

Hunt Area SE-01

Southeast (SE-01)

Oregon's remotest deer ground: nearly 4,000 square miles of Owyhee desert rimrock where self-sufficiency matters more than deer density.

Hunt Area SE-02

Southeast (SE-02)

The heart of the legacy Owyhee unit: honeycombed rhyolite canyons and sage tableland between Owyhee Reservoir, Jordan Valley, and the Idaho line.

Hunt Area SH-01

Sage Hen (SH-01)

The old Juniper unit's sage flats and scattered buttes between Riley and Harney Lake — easy-access BLM desert hunted out of Burns.

Hunt Area SH-02

Sage Hen (SH-02)

The timbered corner of the Harney country: ponderosa ridges, creek bottoms and big burn mosaic of the old Silvies unit rising behind Burns and Hines.

Hunt Area ST-01

Steens (ST-01)

Oregon's biggest fault-block: glacier-carved gorges, a mile-high east escarpment, and one of the state's storied high-country mule deer hunts.

Hunt Area SW-01

South Wallowas (SW-01)

The old Lookout Mountain unit reborn as SW-01: steep sage-and-canyon breaks above Brownlee Reservoir, limited-entry mule deer, and some of the West's best trophy bighorn country.

Hunt Area SW-02

South Wallowas (SW-02)

1,400 square miles from Eagle Cap granite to the Snake River — the south Wallowas' pack-in mule deer country, with dedicated whitetail hunts in the valley bottoms below.

Hunt Area TC-01

Trout Creek (TC-01)

Oregon's marquee trophy mule deer draw: the Trout Creek and Oregon Canyon mountains, 95% public and profoundly remote.

Hunt Area TC-02

Trout Creek (TC-02)

The Pueblo Mountains and south Catlow high desert: 97% public BLM, no trails, no services, and a handful of earned bucks.