There is WDFW land on the west side of Loop Loop pass, a close place to stay is Beaver Creek Campground, on Beaver Creek Rd. There are a few unimproved sites on the Loop Loop hiway at Frazer Creek, Smith Canyon and enough room to park an rv at Jack Creek Rd. If the migration is happening the WDFW land could have many deer there. Don't hunt Loop Loop anymore but have seen 50 to 100 ( of course mostly does and small bucks) deer in a morning there 15 years ago during regular season. the early season we have now, and too many hunters in one week have ruined it for me, I now hunt where we camp at 5500 ft. and see no hunters except around camp. My grandfather had a ranch just up from the Tice Ranch(my uncle sold that ranch to Tice) anyway my grandfather would ride his horse up to Shrive and Peterson Canyons and could OVER 1000 deer when the snow had driven them down. It's nothing like that now but it is still good migration land and public land around it too on up the pass.
By the way, I'd never tell anyone this if I still hunted there, but good luck wherever you hunt, maybe next year my 16 points will net me a Quality Deer Tag for 224.
I roughly counted appts for 2012 Quality Deer tags only, and got up to over $500,000 at todays price.......
They will NEVER NEVER run the regular season late again!
Sad they don't really want to manage the deer herd.
John G.
