Arizona Elk · Unit 18A
Arizona Unit 18A covers 785,072 acres and lies 39 miles east of Kingman and 63 miles north-west of Chino Valley. 52% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (40%) and BLM (11%). In 2025, 215 people hunted elk here and took 62, a 29% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3006, put up 3 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 215 nonresident first-choice applicants, 2 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 26 points.
4 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
41% State
785,072 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in Unit 18A
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3006 | General Elk | <1% (small sample) | 26 | |
| 3024 | General Elk | 4% | 6 | |
| 3054 | General Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | 0 | |
| 3144 | Archery-Only Elk | <1% (small sample) | 21 ▼1 |
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: 3209.
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) | 215 | 62 | 29% |
| 2023 (summed) | 227 | 53 | 23% |
| 2022 (summed) | 267 | 63 | 24% |
| 2021 (summed) | 287 | 74 | 26% |
| 2020 (summed) | 329 | 77 | 23% |
| 2019 (summed) | 338 | 88 | 26% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| General bull (unit share) (hunt 2 of 2) | 27 | 17 | 63% |
| General bull (unit share) (hunt 1 of 2) | 67 | 11 | 16% |
| General antlerless (unit share) | 98 | 25 | 26% |
| Archery-only bull, early (unit share) | 23 | 9 | 39% |
2025 split: archery 62 (100%) from 215 hunters, 29%
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 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2022 AZ Elk Harvest Summary.
The Ground
| Private | 377,383 ac | 48% |
| State trust land | 317,576 ac | 40% |
| BLM | 89,045 ac | 11% |
| Tribal | 1,060 ac | <1% |
| National Forest | 7 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
Unit 18A – Beginning at Seligman; westerly on AZ Hwy 66 to the Hualapai Indian Reservation; southwest and west along the reservation boundary to AZ Hwy 66; southwest on AZ Hwy 66 to the Hackberry Rd.; south on the Hackberry Rd. to I-40; west along I-40 to U.S. Hwy 93; south on U.S. Hwy 93 to Cane Springs Wash; easterly along Cane Springs Wash to the Big Sandy River; northerly along the Big Sandy River to Trout…
▸ Sources 11
- 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 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 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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