About Open Season Map

Open Season Map answers one question: is it open, and if not, when does it open. It lists hunting season dates by state, species, method and zone, and computes today's status for each from the dates alone.

Every date is read from the state wildlife agency's own published page or booklet, once a day, by software that stores the page, compares it with the previous read, and records what changed. Each table names its source and the day it was last read. When an agency has not yet posted the coming year's dates, the page says so instead of showing last year's dates as if they were current.

The site publishes dates and nothing else from the regulations. Bag limits, legal methods, licence requirements, tagging rules and zone boundaries are the agency's to state, and they change in ways a date table cannot carry. Follow the agency link on any page before you hunt.

Some agencies publish proposed dates months before a final vote. Those rows are marked proposed, and the mark comes off the day the agency adopts them.

Open Season Map is built and run by Central Coast GIS, a small geospatial consultancy in California that also runs StockingMap and High Water Report. It is supported by advertising. Contact: hello at openseasonmap.com.