Arizona Elk · Unit 3A
Arizona Unit 3A covers 494,750 acres and lies 9 miles north of Snowflake and 19 miles south of Holbrook. 30% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (19%) and BLM (7%). In 2025, 222 people hunted elk here and took 47, a 21% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3001, put up 2 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 1,067 nonresident first-choice applicants, 2 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 30 points.
6 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
19% State
494,750 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
- 21%
- Season
- Nov 27 – Dec 3
- Tags / Apps
- 22 / 95
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 21%
- Season
- Nov 6–12
- Tags / Apps
- 175 / 17
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 21%
- Season
- Sep 11–24
- Tags / Apps
- 35 / 1
- If Drawn
- $825
Every License in Unit 3A
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3001 | General Elk | <1% (small sample) | 30 ▲1 | |
| 3012 | General Elk | 4% | 10 ▲1 | |
| 3036 | General Elk · Antlerless elk | 4% | — | |
| 3064 · youth | Youth-Only (General) Elk (Arizona Hunter Education course required for youth ages 10–13)… | 11% | 4 ▼1 | |
| 3127 | Archery-Only Elk | <1% | 24 ▲1 | |
| 3171 | Archery-Only Elk · Antlerless elk | 23% | 6 ▼10 |
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) | 222 | 47 | 21% |
| 2023 (summed) | 308 | 79 | 26% |
| 2022 (summed) | 336 | 123 | 37% |
| 2021 (summed) | 273 | 94 | 34% |
| 2020 (summed) | 247 | 74 | 30% |
| 2019 (summed) | — | 100 | — |
| 2018 (summed) | — | 0 | — |
| 2017 (summed) | 25 | 8 | 32% |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year.
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| General bull (unit share) (hunt 2 of 2) | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| General bull (unit share) (hunt 1 of 2) | 63 | 12 | 19% |
| General antlerless (unit share) | 56 | 14 | 25% |
| Youth-only (general) (unit share) | 59 | 14 | 24% |
| Limited opportunity any elk (zeniff hunt area; dry lake hunt area) (unit share) | 14 | 2 | 14% |
| Champ (unit share) | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Archery-only bull, early (unit share) | 18 | 4 | 22% |
| Archery-only antlerless (unit share) | 4 | 0 | 0% |
2025 split: archery 47 (100%) from 222 hunters, 21%
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 | 347,691 ac | 70% |
| State trust land | 93,255 ac | 19% |
| BLM | 35,652 ac | 7% |
| National Forest | 17,575 ac | 4% |
| County or city land | 575 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
Unit 3A – Beginning at the junction of U.S. Hwy 180 and AZ Hwy 77; south on AZ Hwy 77 to AZ Hwy 377; southwesterly on AZ Hwy 377 to AZ Hwy 277; easterly on AZ Hwy 277 to Snowflake; easterly on the Snowflake-Concho Rd. to U.S. Hwy 180A; north on U.S. Hwy 180A to U.S. Hwy 180; northwesterly on U.S. Hwy 180 to AZ Hwy 77.
▸ Sources 13
- 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 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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