Arizona Elk · 4AN
Arizona 4AN covers 482,727 acres and lies 20 miles south of Winslow and 40 miles west of Holbrook. 66% of it is public land, mostly national forest (43%) and state trust land (23%). A further 13% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2025, 34 people hunted elk here and took 25, a 74% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3080, put up 25 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 2 nonresident first-choice applicants, 1 of whom drew.
2 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
43% Forest Service
482,727 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 4AN
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3080 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | 0 | |
| 3808 | Limited Opportunity (General) · Antlerless elk | 100% | — |
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) | 34 | 25 | 74% |
| 2024 (summed) | 39 | 30 | 77% |
| 2020 (summed) | 43 | 26 | 60% |
| 2019 (summed) | 50 | 34 | 68% |
| 2018 (summed) | — | 13 | — |
| 2017 (summed) | 37 | 25 | 68% |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year.
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limited opportunity antlerless | 13 | 7 | 54% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (hopi) | 21 | 18 | 86% |
2025 split: firearm 25 (100%) from 34 hunters, 74%
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 2020 AZ Elk Harvest Summary.
The Ground
| National Forest | 205,929 ac | 43% |
| State trust land | 110,363 ac | 23% |
| Private | 102,378 ac | 21% |
| Tribal | 61,670 ac | 13% |
| BLM | 2,282 ac | <1% |
| State land | 103 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
AZGFD publishes no separate boundary for this hunt unit: the map, acreage and land ownership shown are for the whole of Unit 4A, of which this unit is a part. Unit 4A North - That portion of Unit 4A beginning on the northern boundary of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest at East Clear Creek; north along East Clear Creek to the Little Colorado River; east along the Little Colorado River to Chevelon Creek.
▸ Sources 11
- AZGFD 2026 M Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information fees, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book fees, 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 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.
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