The Colorado Hunting Guide

Last verified

How we source and verify

Every season date, fee, rule, and outfitter listing on this site is traced to a primary source — Colorado Parks & Wildlife publications, Colorado statute, and the state's official DORA registration data — and each page shows the date its claims were last verified. Where we can't verify something, we say so and point you to the source instead of guessing.

Our sources

The verification discipline

Three rules govern every page:

  1. Primary sources only. We cite CPW and statute, not other hunting blogs. A source chip sits next to the dates, fees, and legal claims so you can check the original.
  2. A visible last-verified date on every page. Freshness is the whole point — a regulations page with no date is one you can't trust, and the older Colorado hunting sites mostly have none.
  3. We hedge instead of faking. When a fact turns on your specific unit, license, or a publication we couldn't verify to the day (sheep and goat dates, for instance, are set per hunt code), we say so and send you to the source rather than print a number that might be wrong.

The freshness engine

The what's-open-now board is computed at build time from the season-date file and rebuilt automatically every night, so the status you see reflects the current date — not a value someone typed months ago. That's the same reason we don't put years in our URLs: dated pages rot, so instead each page covers the current season and gets updated in place.

What we don't do

Found something wrong?

Tell us. Accuracy is the entire product, and a correction with a source is the most useful thing you can send: [email protected].

Primary sources

Never miss a deadline

The Colorado draw application closes in early April, and season dates shift a little each year. Leave your email and we'll send one short reminder before the draw deadline and a note whenever the season dates change — nothing else.