2024 Chester Woods Park lottery deer hunt closure

ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Olmsted County Parks department will close Chester Woods Regional Park for the management shotgun deer hunt season November 23 – December 1, 2024.

The purpose of the hunt is to harvest enough animals to keep the herd health and manageable. Forty individuals will be selected by lottery, and each will be required to obtain at least one disease management harvest tag allowing the taking of additional antlerless deer. Chester Woods Park will re-open at 5 a.m. on Monday, December 2, 2024.

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