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, a 24% success rate (sum of published weapon rows).
0 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2023, all licenses
23% Forest Service
854,983 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Licenses
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.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 (summed) | 45 | 11 | 24% |
| 2022 (summed) | 186 | 114 | 61% |
| 2021 (summed) | 100 | 63 | 63% |
| 2020 (summed) | 46 | 21 | 46% |
| 2019 (summed) | 50 | 27 | 54% |
| 2018 (summed) | — | 0 | — |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year.
| 2023 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limited opportunity antlerless | 45 | 11 | 24% |
2023 split: firearm 11 (100%) from 45 hunters, 24%
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 2023; 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 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2022 AZ Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2021 AZ Elk Harvest Summary.
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 | <1% |
| Tribal | 179 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 77 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 4B, of which this unit is a part.
▸ Sources 9
- 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 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
- AZGFD 2026 Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
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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