This 90 percent private unit, which starts at Pueblo and lies south of the Arkansas River and east of town, holds trophy-size mule deer, whitetail deer and antelope, and there are even some big elk.

Most prime land is leased to outfitters with most public land hunted heavily.

Mostly prairie and irrigated farmland along the Arkansas River and near Pueblo with higher ground rising as much as 1,800 feet above the creek bottoms. Some bluffs and rimrock overlook the river and its tributaries, including the Chucharas River and Chicosa and Mustang creeks.

Chiefly shortgrass prairie with thousands of acres of irrigated farmland and dry farms, river and creek bottoms that are lined with cottonwoods or tamarisks with reeds and cattails in stretches, and higher stands of pinyon, juniper, and shrubs.

Pueblo, Walsenburg and La Junta have campgrounds, motels, restaurants, emergency rooms and shopping centers. Giodone's Restaurant has good Italian food in Pueblo.