Unit 77 · Great Sand Dunes
About this unit
Northeast Alamosa and southeast Saguache counties wrapping Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Sage flats on the valley floor climb through aspen to alpine tundra above 13,000 feet on the Sangre de Cristo crest. Mix of Rio Grande National Forest and NPS Preserve ground; the National Park is closed to hunting but the Preserve allows it.
- Great Sand Dunes National Preserve
- Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
- Rio Grande NF
Public lands inside this unit
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Trails near Unit 77
12 found
TrailContinental Divide Trail
3001.6 miDifficult- Trail
Colorado Trail
481.0 miDifficult - Trail
Pagosa Springs OHV Loop
81.1 miModerate - Trail
Squaw Creek, Continental Divide and Weminuche Trail Loop
29.1 miDifficult - Trail
Pine River Trail to Weminuche Trail
27.6 miModerate - Trail
Granite and Divide Lakes
20.6 miModerate - Trail
Pinos River Trail to Emerald Lake
20.4 miDifficult - Trail
Cimarrona to Poison Park
19.1 miModerate - Trail
Catamount, Gopher, Lower Rim Loop
17.3 miModerate - Trail
Four Mile Creek and Anderson Trail Loop
14.5 miModerate - Trail
Lower Weminuche Trail
14.4 miModerate - Trail
Cave Basin Trail
10.2 miModerate
Campgrounds near Unit 77
12 found
CampgroundSportsman’s Campground & Mountain Cabins
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Happy Camper RV Park
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FS Road 631/633
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San Juan National Forest Williams Creek Campground
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Middle Fork Hunter Campground
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First Fork Hunter campground
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Wolf Creek Run
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CampgroundPalisades Horse Camp
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Bridge Campground - San Juan NF
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Hide-A-Way at Pagosa Pines RV Park
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Pagosa Riverside Campground
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Castaway Canyon Colorado
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Species in this unit
Official agency resources
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
- Hunting regulations ↗
https://cpw.state.co.us/rules-and-regulations
- Draw / lottery ↗
https://cpw.state.co.us/hunting/big-game/primary-draw
- GMU map ↗
https://ndismaps.nrel.colostate.edu/index.html?app=HuntingAtlas
- Harvest reporting ↗
https://cpw.state.co.us/thingstodo/Pages/Statistics.aspx
- Hunter education ↗
https://cpw.state.co.us/hunting/education-outreach
- Buy a license ↗
https://cpwshop.com/
Authoritative source
Outdoors does not publish hunting regulations directly. For current season dates, bag limits, legal weapons, draw deadlines, and license costs in unit 77, go straight to the issuing agency.
Read the Colorado agency pageBoundary verified by Outdoors against the agency source on 05/23/2026.