Colorado Elk — GMU 127

Colorado GMU 127 covers 611,940 acres and lies 122 miles east of Pueblo. 9% of it is public land, mostly county or city land (7%) and state land (2%). In 2024, 36 people hunted elk here and took 3 — 8% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2024):8% Public land:9% Size:611,940 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 127 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

Pueblo Fountain Monument Castle Rock Fort Morgan
GMU 127 within Colorado
121 122 126 132 146
GMU 127 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 559,575 ac · 91%
  • County or city land 41,611 ac · 7%
  • State land 10,614 ac · 2%
  • BLM 34 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 36 3 8%
2023 28 6 20%
2022 28 6 22%
2021 34 0 0%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 3 · 100% · 36 hunters, 8% 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