City of Charleston
Urban Deer Management
Rules and Regulations
Information
The City of Charleston’s split Urban Deer Hunt season will be open from September 4 – December 31, 2023 and January 8-31, 2024 for the extended season. The City will accept hunter applications only between July 1 and August 11, 2023. The application cost remains $10.00 per hunter and copies of all documentation are required for the application to be processed.
The signed application, support document and payment must be attached to your application. The application can be mailed to the below address. Please write “Urban Deer Hunt” on the outside of the envelope.
Tommie Harless
City of Charleston
P.O. Box 2749
Charleston, WV 25330
The list of UDH Tracts will be posted on this web page as they become approved. If a phone number or email address is not provided for the property owner, this indicates that the owner has chosen not to accept public inquiries.
The deadline for new tract and renewal applications is June 30, 2023.
The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources 2023 – 2024 Hunting and Trapping Regulations can be accessed here:
Please contact the City Manager's Office Urban Deer Hunt Coordinator with any questions: (304) 348-8014 or urbandeer@cityofcharleston.org.