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California Elk · Lone Pine Owens Valley Tule Elk Hunt

California Lone Pine covers 445,173 acres and lies 46 miles south-east of Big Pine. 98% of it is public land, mostly BLM (53%) and county or city land (26%). In 2022, 2 people hunted tule here and took 1 (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 486, put up 1 tag (all residencies) in the 2025 draw for 598 first-choice applicants (one pool for residents and nonresidents).

Tags, 2025
2

2 licenses · NR capped at 1 tag statewide

Applicants
654

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
—

not published

Public Land
98%

54% BLM

Size
696 mi²

445,173 acres

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

Every License in Lone Pine

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
337 2% (small sample) —
486 <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: 459, 495, 496.

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

All elk

Year Hunters Elk Success
2021 (summed) 2 2 100%

Tule

Year Hunters Elk Success
2022 (summed) 2 1 50%
2022 by LicenseHuntersElkSuccess
Tule (hunt 1 of 2) 1 0 0%
Tule (hunt 2 of 2) 1 1 100%

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

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: GreenInfo Network 2026 Protected Areas Database a.

▸ Sources 7
  1. CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  2. CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  3. CDFW 2025 Big Game Hunting Digest fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. CDFW 2022 Elk Harvest Statistics harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. CDFW 2021 Elk Harvest Success Rates harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. CDFW 2023 Elk Hunt Zones boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. 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.

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We don't take applications: check California Department of Fish and Wildlife's site and apply there.

Prior-draw odds from California Department of Fish and Wildlife's results, not a forecast · All California elk hunts