Arizona Elk · Unit 2B
Arizona Unit 2B covers 526,804 acres and lies 51 miles east of Show Low and 62 miles south-east of Holbrook. 57% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (52%) and BLM (5%). In 2025, 157 people hunted elk here and took 52, a 33% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3126, put up 22 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 1,902 nonresident first-choice applicants, 12 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 22 points.
13 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
52% State
526,804 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.
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Sep 11–20
- Tags / Apps
- 65 / 5
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Sep 25 – Oct 4
- Tags / Apps
- 60 / 0
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Sep 11–20
- Tags / Apps
- 35 / 41
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Oct 9–18
- Tags / Apps
- 25 / 23
- If Drawn
- $825
Every License in Unit 2B
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3011 | General Elk | <1% | 18 ▲2 | |
| 3034 | General Elk · Antlerless elk | 5% | 7 | |
| 3035 | General Elk · Antlerless elk | 9% | 7 ▲1 | |
| 3077 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | 0 | |
| 3078 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | — | |
| 3079 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | — | |
| 3088 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk | 5% | 11 | |
| 3089 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk | 4% | 11 ▲4 | |
| 3090 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk | 8% | 9 | |
| 3100 | Muzzleloader Elk | <1% (small sample) | 28 | |
| 3126 | Archery-Only Elk | <1% | 22 | |
| 3151 | Archery-Only Elk | 1% (small sample) | 21 ▲7 | |
| 3168 | Archery-Only Elk · Antlerless elk | 27% | 8 ▼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.
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) | 157 | 52 | 33% |
| 2023 (summed) | 119 | 43 | 36% |
| 2022 (summed) | 158 | 56 | 35% |
| 2021 (summed) | 146 | 45 | 31% |
| 2020 (summed) | 176 | 68 | 39% |
| 2019 (summed) | 156 | 70 | 45% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| General bull (unit share) (hunt 1 of 2) | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| General bull (unit share) (hunt 2 of 2) | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| General antlerless (unit share) (hunt 2 of 2) | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| General antlerless (unit share) (hunt 1 of 2) | 10 | 3 | 30% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (unit share) (hunt 2 of 3) | 35 | 11 | 31% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (unit share) (hunt 1 of 3) | 38 | 7 | 18% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (unit share) (hunt 3 of 3) | 16 | 9 | 56% |
| Limited opportunity any elk (unit share) (hunt 1 of 3) | 24 | 10 | 42% |
| Limited opportunity any elk (unit share) (hunt 3 of 3) | 8 | 6 | 75% |
| Limited opportunity any elk (unit share) (hunt 2 of 3) | 10 | 4 | 40% |
| Archery-only bull, early (unit share) | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Archery-only bull, late (unit share) | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Archery-only antlerless (unit share) | 1 | 0 | 0% |
2025 split: archery 52 (100%) from 157 hunters, 33%
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
| State trust land | 271,499 ac | 52% |
| Private | 226,854 ac | 43% |
| BLM | 26,629 ac | 5% |
| County or city land | 1,193 ac | <1% |
| State land | 594 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 1 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
Unit 2B – Beginning at Springerville; east on U.S. Hwy 60 to the New Mexico state line; north along the state line to the Navajo Indian Reservation boundary; westerly along the reservation boundary to U.S. Hwy 191 (AZ Hwy 61); south on U.S. Hwy 191 (U.S. Hwy 180) to Springerville.
▸ 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.
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