Arizona Elk · Unit 9
Arizona Unit 9 covers 682,958 acres and lies 52 miles north-west of Flagstaff and 70 miles north of Sedona. 77% of it is public land, mostly national forest (48%) and state trust land (28%). In 2025, 1,008 people hunted elk here and took 446, a 44% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3004, put up 2 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 2,651 nonresident first-choice applicants, 2 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 31 points.
7 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
48% Forest Service
682,958 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
- 44%
- Season
- Nov 27 – Dec 3
- Tags / Apps
- 22 / 386
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 44%
- Season
- Oct 16–22
- Tags / Apps
- 350 / 30
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 44%
- Season
- Dec 4–10
- Tags / Apps
- 350 / 39
- If Drawn
- $825
Every License in Unit 9
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3004 | General Elk | <1% (small sample) | 31 | |
| 3022 | General Elk | <1% | 13 ▲4 | |
| 3050 | General Elk · Antlerless elk | 13% | 5 | |
| 3051 | General Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | 0 ▼3 | |
| 3069 · youth | Youth-Only (General) Elk (Arizona Hunter Education course required for youth ages 10–13)… | 21% | 4 ▲1 | |
| 3140 | Archery-Only Elk | <1% | 27 ▲1 | |
| 3161 | Archery-Only Elk | <1% (small sample) | 22 ▲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) | 1,008 | 446 | 44% |
| 2024 (summed) | 1,015 | 393 | 39% |
| 2023 (summed) | 1,105 | 436 | 39% |
| 2022 (summed) | 1,057 | 424 | 40% |
| 2021 (summed) | 998 | 400 | 40% |
| 2020 (summed) | 1,060 | 483 | 46% |
| 2019 (summed) | 1,094 | 366 | 33% |
| 2018 (summed) | 1,216 | 575 | 47% |
| 2017 (summed) | 1,062 | 534 | 50% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archery-only bull, early | 77 | 42 | 55% |
| Archery-only bull, late | 31 | 13 | 42% |
| General bull | 175 | 66 | 38% |
| General antlerless · 345 licenses | 309 | 128 | 41% |
| General antlerless · 347 licenses | 264 | 72 | 27% |
| Youth-only (general) | 134 | 110 | 82% |
| Muzzleloader bull | 18 | 15 | 83% |
2025 split: archery 55 (12%) from 108 hunters, 51%, firearm 391 (88%) from 900 hunters, 43%
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 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary.
The Ground
| National Forest | 327,091 ac | 48% |
| State trust land | 193,912 ac | 28% |
| Private | 159,572 ac | 23% |
| BLM | 1,283 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 1,042 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 55 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
Unit 9 – Beginning where Cataract Creek enters the Havasupai Reservation; easterly and northerly along the Havasupai Reservation boundary to Grand Canyon National Park; easterly along the Grand Canyon National Park boundary to the Navajo Indian Reservation boundary; southerly along the reservation boundary to the Four Corners Gas Line; southwesterly along the Four Corners Gas Line to U.S. Hwy 180; westerly along…
▸ Sources 14
- 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 2024 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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