Colorado Elk — GMU 101

Colorado GMU 101 covers 438,212 acres and lies 52 miles south-east of Sterling and 61 miles east of Fort Morgan. 8% of it is public land, mostly state land (5%) and county or city land (3%). In 2024, 8 people hunted elk here and took 0 — 0% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2024):0% Public land:8% Size:438,212 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 101 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Colorado elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Sterling Fort Morgan Aurora Castle Rock Monument
GMU 101 within Colorado
100 102 103 107 109 97 98
GMU 101 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

  • Private 404,394 ac · 92%
  • State land 22,103 ac · 5%
  • County or city land 11,594 ac · 3%
  • BLM 120 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

How the hunting has gone

What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Colorado's figures come from CPW's post-season hunter survey. CPW's 2025 report dropped the per-GMU table in favour of hunt-code rows, so the newest year shown here is 2024.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2024 8 0 0%
2023 6 0 0%
2022 12 0 0%
2021 15 0 0%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 0 · 8 hunters, 0% success

Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)

Harvest: 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest

Harvest: 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates

Harvest: 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest

How we compute draw odds · All Colorado elk hunts