Unit 116 covers Baca County country along the Cimarron River drainage—the country south and east of Springfield reaching toward the Oklahoma line. Elevations 3,800 to 4,800 feet. The terrain is shortgrass and sandsage prairie with significant dryland wheat, deep CRP fields, and the dramatic juniper-and-cottonwood country of the Cimarron breaks where the river has cut into rim-rock and sandstone bluffs. The breaks themselves are the visual surprise of the unit—deep, steep-sided canyons that look more like northern New Mexico than eastern Colorado. Mule deer hold the breaks and the juniper benches in genuinely good numbers and grow big where access is hardest; pronghorn cover the open uplands; turkey work the cottonwood riparian zones; the rare elk has shown up in recent years. The Comanche Grassland's Carrizo Unit covers significant chunks of the southern half—tens of thousands of acres of accessible USFS-managed grassland, juniper benches, and rim country with vehicle access via FS roads and county routes off US-287 and US-160. The rest is deeded private ranchland. Walk-In Access enrollments are decent in Baca County most years. Springfield is the working supply town—gas, food, motels, a small grocery, the Comanche Grassland ranger station. Cell service is poor across most of the unit and gone in the canyon country. The wind blows constant. The country feels genuinely remote—you can drive county roads for an hour without passing another vehicle—and the gumbo turns to grease fast when it rains. Carry water and a satellite communicator; help is far away here.