Minnesota · Deer Hunting Data

Minnesota Deer Unit 254

Sightings, hotspots, and hunt insights for Minnesota Game Management Unit 254.

Freeborn County anchors this deer country, a Des Moines Lobe till plain where the game is cover and access, not elevation, with a floor near 1,180 feet in the river bottoms and rolling moraine ridges topping out around 1,440 to 1,470 feet. We map the whole story: standing corn and bur oak acorns as forage, the Shell Rock and Cedar rivers and Turtle Creek as timbered movement corridors, cattail sloughs that concentrate deer once harvest strips the crop cover, and public parcels scattered as small islands in private cropland. The pack covers Unit Overview and Topography, Vegetation and Hydrology, Seasonal Expectations, Logistics and Access, plus a one-page Essential Recon summary. Study the unit on our interactive map, then export the points you select to onX or your favorite hunting map.
224
Total Deer Spotted
40
Hotspots Identified
Active
Status · Data Available
Minnesota Deer Unit 254 boundary map
Unit 254 boundary within Minnesota · orange area is covered by this Data Pack

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The Minnesota - Deer 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 Minnesota Deer unit, including Unit 254. 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.