California Elk · Lake Pillsbury Tule Elk Hunt
California Lake Pillsbury covers 299,662 acres and lies 63 miles north of Santa Rosa. 79% of it is public land, mostly national forest (77%) and BLM (1%). In 2022, 5 people hunted tule here and took 5 (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 390, put up 2 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw for 643 first-choice applicants (one pool for residents and nonresidents).
5 licenses · NR capped at 1 tag statewide
first choice, NR
not published
98% Forest Service
299,662 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in Lake Pillsbury
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 387 | Lake Pillsbury Period 1 - General Methods - Antlerless | <1% (small sample) | — | |
| 388 | Lake Pillsbury Period 2 - General Methods - Antlerless | 3% (small sample) | — | |
| 389 | Lake Pillsbury Period 3 - General Methods - Antlerless | 1% (small sample) | — | |
| 390 | Lake Pillsbury Period 4 - General Methods - Bull | <1% (small sample) | — | |
| 391 | Lake Pillsbury Period 5 - General Methods - Bull | <1% (small sample) | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2025 result: 331, 332.
Draw results: CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics; CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2025 nonresident fees): $2,053.79 ($227.94 to apply). Open Apr 15 – Jun 2, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
Tule
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 (summed) | 5 | 5 | 100% |
All elk
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 (summed) | 5 | 4 | 80% |
| 2022 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tule · 4 licenses | 3 | 3 | 75% |
| Tule · 2 licenses | 2 | 2 | 100% |
What California Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. California Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes no whole-zone line for 2022; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: CDFW 2022 Elk Harvest Statistics; CDFW 2021 Elk Harvest Success Rates.
The Ground
| National Forest | 231,105 ac | 77% |
| BLM | 3,500 ac | 1% |
| Other public | 662 ac | <1% |
| State land | 551 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 3 ac | <1% |
| Private or other non-public land | 63,838 ac | 21% |
Next Door
- East Park Reservoir East Park Reservoir Tule Elk Hunt 44% public
- Cache Creek Cache Creek Tule Elk Hunt 60% public
- Mendocino Mendocino Roosevelt/Tule Elk Hunt 26% public
- Bear Valley Bear Valley Tule Elk Hunt 16% public
- Grizzly Island Grizzly Island Tule Elk Hunt 99% public
- Marble Mountains Marble Mountains Roosevelt Elk Hunt 67% public
▸ Sources 7
- CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- CDFW 2025 Big Game Hunting Digest fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- CDFW 2022 Elk Harvest Statistics harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- CDFW 2021 Elk Harvest Success Rates harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- CDFW 2023 Elk Hunt Zones boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- GreenInfo Network 2026 Protected Areas Database a land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from California Department of Fish and Wildlife'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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