Michigan · Deer Hunting Data

Michigan Deer Unit 40

Sightings, hotspots, and hunt insights for Michigan Game Management Unit 40.

Michigan's Deer Management Unit 40 is the whole of Kalkaska County, a glacial mosaic in the north-central Lower Peninsula where relief stays gentle (roughly 595 feet in the river valleys up to about 1,246 feet on the moraines) but the footing does the work: loose sand, tag-alder thickets, and boot-sucking cedar swamp. That layering matters for deer, from jack pine and oak barrens to hardwood moraines to the lowland cedar bottoms along the Manistee, Boardman, and Rapid rivers where animals yard up in deep lake-effect snow. With roughly 42 percent of the county open as Pere Marquette and Kalkaska State Forest, access is real. The pack covers 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.
75
Total Deer Spotted
20
Hotspots Identified
Active
Status · Data Available
Michigan Deer Unit 40 boundary map
Unit 40 boundary within Michigan · orange area is covered by this data pack

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The Michigan - Deer Data Pack includes detailed heat maps, GPS coordinates, and unit-by-unit hotspots for every Michigan Deer unit, including Unit 40. Study the unit on our interactive map and export the points you choose to onX or your favorite hunting map.

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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.