California Elk — Lone Pine

Lone Pine - Owens Valley Tule Elk Hunt

California Lone Pine covers 445,173 acres and lies 82 miles east of Visalia. 98% of it is public land, mostly BLM (53%) and county or city land (26%). In 2021, 2 people hunted elk here and took 2 — 100% of them killed something. The 2025 draw put up 1 tag here for 56 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2025):2 Nonresident share:capped at 1 Applicants:654 All elk success (2021):100% Public land:98% Size:445,173 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in Lone Pine, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level

337 Lone Pine Period 1 - Archery - Antlerless 1 tags · 56 applicants

2% Point builder
486 Lone Pine Period 2 - General Methods - Bull 1 tags · 598 applicants

<1% Point builder

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	Points needed	Tags / applicants	Season
337 ↗ Lone Pine Period 1 - Archery - Antlerless Archery	2% Point builder	—	1 / 56	Sep 13–28, 2025
486 ↗ Lone Pine Period 2 - General Methods - Bull Rifle	<1% Point builder	—	1 / 598	Oct 4–12, 2025

What these columns mean

Your odds: the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge: plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Points needed: the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

3 hunts not offered in 2025 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2025 nonresident fees)

License	Up front	Gone if you miss	If you draw
Per application	$227.94	$227.94	$2,053.79

Application window: opens Apr 15, closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Lone Pine

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2025 draw.

459 — LONE PINE PERIOD 3 - GENERAL METHODS - ANTLERLESS Standard 495 — LONE PINE PERIOD 2 - GENERAL METHODS - ANTLERLESS Standard 496 — LONE PINE PERIOD 3 - GENERAL METHODS - BULL Standard

The country

Lone Pine within California

Lone Pine 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

BLM 234,923 ac · 53%
County or city land 114,428 ac · 26%
National Park Service 53,686 ac · 12%
National Forest 21,819 ac · 5%
State land 11,886 ac · 3%
Private or other non-public land 8,429 ac · 2%

Source: California Protected Areas Database (CPAD) 2026a -- Holdings by Agency Classification

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What California Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. California Department of Fish and Wildlife 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.