Arizona Elk — Unit 15A
Arizona Unit 15A covers 333,412 acres and lies 37 miles north of Kingman and 57 miles north-east of Bullhead City. 80% of it is public land, mostly BLM (65%) and national park (14%). In 2025, 19 people hunted elk here and took 6 — 32% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 150 tags here for 12 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 3 points.
Your chance of drawing here
Every elk license type on offer in Unit 15A, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.
Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.
Simple view Odds at every point level-
<1% Point builder <1% as 2nd choice
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4% Point builder 4% as 2nd choice
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100% Likely draw 16% as 2nd choice
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<1% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
| Hunt | Your odds (0 pts) | As 2nd choice | Points needed | Tags / applicants | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3006 ↗ GENERAL ELK | Bull elk | 15A, 15B, and 18A Rifle | <1% Point builder | <1% | 26 | 3 / 215 | Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2026 |
| 3024 ↗ GENERAL ELK | Bull elk | 15A, 15B, and 18A Rifle | 4% Point builder | 4% | 6 steady since 2023 | 10 / 59 | Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2026 |
| 3054 ↗ GENERAL ELK | Antlerless elk | 15A, 15B, and 18A Rifle | 100% Likely draw | 16% | 3 +1 since 2023 | 150 / 12 | Dec 4–10, 2026 |
| 3144 ↗ ARCHERY-ONLY ELK | Bull elk | 15A, 15B, and 18A Archery | <1% Point builder | 0% | 21 −1 since 2025 | 2 / 65 | Sep 11–24, 2026 |
What these columns mean
- Your odds —
- the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
- The badge —
- plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
- As 2nd choice —
- Arizona lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
- Points needed —
- the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
- Tags / applicants —
- tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)
| License | Up front | Gone if you miss | If you draw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per application | $175 | $175 | $825 |
Application window: opens Jan 13, closes Feb 3, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Other licenses valid in Unit 15A
Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
How the hunting has gone
What Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. Arizona's figures come from AZGFD's post-season hunter questionnaire - survey estimates carrying a 90% confidence interval and a return count, not a census of animals checked in.
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | 6 | 32% |
| 2023 | 40 | 12 | 30% |
| 2022 | 25 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | 76 | 9 | 12% |
| 2020 | 78 | 14 | 18% |
| 2019 | 46 | 5 | 11% |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 6 · 100% · 19 hunters, 32% success
What the agency says about the area
Unit 15A – Beginning at Pearce Ferry on the Colorado River; southerly on the Pearce Ferry Rd. to Antares Rd.; southeasterly on Antares Rd. to AZ Hwy 66; easterly on AZ Hwy 66 to the Hualapai Indian Reservation; west and north along the west boundary of the reservation to the Colorado River; westerly along the Colorado River to Pearce Ferry; except those portions that are sovereign tribal lands of the Hualapai Indian…
Boundary: AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units (AZGFD ArcGIS feature service, layer 0)
Harvest: 2025 AZ Elk Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2022 AZ Elk Harvest Summary