Colorado Elk — GMU 129

Colorado GMU 129 covers 225,271 acres and lies 38 miles east of Pueblo and 57 miles south-east of Fountain. 3% of it is public land, mostly state land (3%). In 2024, 72 people hunted elk here and took 18 — 25% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2024):25% Public land:3% Size:225,271 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 129 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 Alamosa
GMU 129 within Colorado
120 121 123 124 125 128 130 133 135 59 591 84 Pueblo
GMU 129 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 217,563 ac · 97%
  • State land 7,237 ac · 3%
  • BLM 382 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 88 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 72 18 25%
2023 45 20 44%
2022 22 2 11%
2021 28 0 0%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 18 · 100% · 72 hunters, 25% 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