Colorado Elk — GMU 126
Colorado GMU 126 covers 431,796 acres and lies 90 miles east of Pueblo. 19% of it is public land, mostly county or city land (11%) and state land (8%). In 2024, 47 people hunted elk here and took 5 — 11% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 126 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
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
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 | 47 | 5 | 11% |
| 2023 | 48 | 3 | 6% |
| 2022 | 25 | 2 | 10% |
| 2021 | 43 | 0 | 0% |
What people carried (2024 harvest)
- Rifle 5 · 100% · 47 hunters, 11% success
Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)
Harvest: 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest
Harvest: 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates
Harvest: 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest