Colorado · Turkey Hunting Data

Colorado Turkey Unit 500

Sightings, hotspots, and hunt insights for Colorado Game Management Unit 500.

Unit 500 spreads across northwestern Colorado's transition country, where Gambel oak brush benches between 7,200 and 8,500 feet climb toward the rugged Elkhead Mountains, the kind of mosaic where turkeys work the edges of oak, serviceberry, and cottonwood-lined riparian corridors. Water tells the story here: many mid-elevation creeks shrink to disconnected pools by late summer, so stock tanks, developed springs, and hidden aspen seeps concentrate birds. Add a checkerboard of Routt National Forest, BLM, and private ranchland that complicates access, plus the gumbo-clay roads that strand trucks after rain, and you need depth. The pack delivers it: Unit Overview and Topography, Vegetation and Hydrology, Seasonal Expectations, Logistics and Access, and a one-page Essential Recon summary. Study the unit on our interactive map, then export the points you choose to onX or your favorite hunting map.
10
Total Turkey Spotted
1
Hotspots Identified
Active
Status · Data Available
Colorado Turkey Unit 500 boundary map
Unit 500 boundary within Colorado · orange area is covered by this Data Pack

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The Colorado - Turkey Data Pack gives you a full year of access to the heat map that shows where the animals actually are: detailed hot zones, GPS coordinates, and unit-by-unit hotspots for every Colorado Turkey unit, including Unit 500. Study the unit on the heat map and export the points you choose to onX or your favorite hunting app.

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How this data was collected

Data Hunt Guide aggregates publicly available sighting reports from across the web (social media, hunting forums, harvest reports, and trail-camera shares) and uses a proprietary algorithm to identify high-activity zones (hotspots) within each unit. Our team verifies coordinates manually before publication.