Arizona Elk — 4BN

Arizona 4BN covers 854,983 acres and lies 19 miles west of Holbrook and 29 miles north-west of Snowflake. 46% of it is public land, mostly national forest (23%) and state trust land (18%). In 2023, 45 people hunted elk here and took 11 — 24% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2023):24% Public land:46% Size:854,983 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Arizona Game & Fish Department has not offered an elk license in 4BN in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Arizona elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Holbrook Show Low Globe Prescott Valley Cave Creek
4BN within Arizona
1 11M 21 22 22N 22S 23 23N 23S 2A 2B 2C 3A 3B 3BN 3C 4A 4AN 4B 5A 5B 5BN 5BS 6A 6B 7E 7W CN Holbrook Snowflake Show Low Payson Flagstaff
4BN and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • Private 460,619 ac · 54%
  • National Forest 196,298 ac · 23%
  • State trust land 153,131 ac · 18%
  • BLM 42,726 ac · 5%
  • State land 1,950 ac · 0%
  • Tribal 179 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 77 ac · 0%

Source: BLM AZ Surface Management Agency (Polygon)

How the hunting has gone

What Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. 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.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2023 45 11 24%
2022 186 114 61%
2021 100 63 63%
2020 46 21 46%
2019 60 27 45%
2018 30 0 0%

What people carried (2023 harvest)

  • Firearm 11 · 100% · 45 hunters, 24% success

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 4B, of which this unit is a part.

Source: Arizona Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book (July 23, 2026 edition; A.R.S. Title 17 + A.A.C. Title 12, Chapter 4)

Boundary: AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units (AZGFD ArcGIS feature service, layer 0)

Harvest: 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary

Harvest: 2022 AZ Elk Harvest Summary

Harvest: 2021 AZ Elk Harvest Summary

How we compute draw odds · All Arizona elk hunts