Arizona Elk · Unit 16A
Arizona Unit 16A spans 1,580,165 acres, centered 28 miles east of Lake Havasu City. 81% of it is public land, mostly BLM (75%) and state trust land (5%). In 2025, 14 people hunted elk here and took 10, a 71% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3112, put up 6 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 23 nonresident first-choice applicants, 1 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 11 points.
2 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
75% BLM
1,580,165 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in Unit 16A
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3112 | Muzzleloader Elk | 2% | 11 ▼4 | |
| 3189 | Archery-Only Elk | 6% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 3200, 3208.
Draw results: AZGFD 2026 M Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $825 ($175 to apply). Open Jan 13 – Feb 3, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 14 | 10 | 71% |
| 2024 (summed) | 14 | 5 | 36% |
| 2023 (summed) | 6 | 5 | 83% |
| 2022 (summed) | 7 | 7 | 100% |
| 2021 (summed) | 6 | 5 | 83% |
| 2020 (summed) | 7 | 8 | — |
| 2019 (summed) | 7 | 7 | 100% |
| 2018 (summed) | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2017 (summed) | 6 | 3 | 50% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archery-only any elk | 8 | 6 | 75% |
| Muzzleloader any elk | 6 | 4 | 67% |
2025 split: archery 6 (60%), firearm 4 (40%)
What Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. 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. Source: AZGFD 2025 AZ Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2024 AZ Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary.
The Ground
| BLM | 1,180,380 ac | 75% |
| Private | 299,197 ac | 19% |
| State trust land | 82,336 ac | 5% |
| Department of Defense | 10,399 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 3,053 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 2,540 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 2,241 ac | <1% |
| State land | 16 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
Unit 16A – Beginning at Kingman on I-40 (Exit 48); south and west on I-40 to U.S. Hwy 95 (Exit 9); southerly on U.S. Hwy 95 to the Bill Williams River; easterly along the Bill Williams and Santa Maria rivers to U.S. Hwy 93; north on U.S. Hwy 93 to I-40 (Exit 71); west on I-40 to Kingman (Exit 48).
▸ Sources 14
- AZGFD 2026 M Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book fees, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2025 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2024 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2022 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2021 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2020 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2019 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2018 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2017 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office with the Arizona State Land Department (Arizona Land Resources Information System, ALRIS) and Premier Data Services 2026 BLM AZ Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Arizona Game & Fish Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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