Colorado Elk · GMU 13
Colorado GMU 13 covers 231,732 acres and lies 14 miles south-east of Craig and 26 miles west of Steamboat Springs. 22% of it is public land, mostly state land (16%) and BLM (7%). In 2024, 1,219 people hunted elk here and took 496, a 41% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, EM011O1R, put up 3,000 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 1,485 nonresident first-choice applicants.
35 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
16% State
231,732 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2024. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- 41%
- Season
- Sep 2–30
- Tags / Apps
- 750 / 268
- If Drawn
- $974.27
- Success
- 41%
- Season
- Sep 12–20
- Tags / Apps
- 100 / 4
- If Drawn
- $974.27
- Success
- 41%
- Season
- Oct 14–18
- Tags / Apps
- 1,500 / 230
- If Drawn
- $974.27
- Success
- 41%
- Season
- Oct 14–18
- Tags / Apps
- 3,000 / 1,485
- If Drawn
- $974.27
Every License in GMU 13
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE011O1M Standard | Elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 | 0% | 1 ▼1 | |
| EE011O1M Youth | Elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| EE011P1A Standard · private | Elk either-sex archery private-land-only GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EE011P1A Youth · private | Elk either-sex archery private-land-only GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EE011P1R Standard · private | Elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EE011P1R Youth · private | Elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EE011V1A Standard | Elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EE011V1A Youth | Elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EE011W2R Standard | Elk either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 11 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EE011W4R Standard | Elk either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EE012P1M Standard · private | Elk either-sex muzzleloader private-land-only GMU 12 | 69% | 0 | |
| EE012P1M Youth · private | Elk either-sex muzzleloader private-land-only GMU 12 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| EF011O1M Standard | Elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF011O1M Youth | Elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 11 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF011O1R Standard | Elk female rifle season 1 GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EF011O1R Youth | Elk female rifle season 1 GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EF011O4R Standard | Elk female rifle season 4 GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EF011O4R Youth | Elk female rifle season 4 GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EF011P5R Standard · private | Elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EF011P5R Youth · private | Elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EF011W2R Standard | Elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EF011W4R Standard | Elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EF011W6R Standard | Elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EF012O2R Standard | Elk female rifle season 2 GMU 12 | 100% | — | |
| EF012O2R Youth | Elk female rifle season 2 GMU 12 | 100% | — | |
| EF012O3R Standard | Elk female rifle season 3 GMU 12 | 100% | — | |
| EF012O3R Youth | Elk female rifle season 3 GMU 12 | 100% | — | |
| EF012P1M Standard · private | Elk female muzzleloader private-land-only GMU 12 | 100% | — | |
| EF012P1M Youth · private | Elk female muzzleloader private-land-only GMU 12 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF013L1R Standard | Elk female rifle late season GMU 13 | 0% | 1 ▲1 | |
| EF013L1R Youth | Elk female rifle late season GMU 13 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| EM011O1R Standard | Elk male rifle season 1 GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EM011O1R Youth | Elk male rifle season 1 GMU 11 | 100% | — | |
| EM012O4R Standard | Elk male rifle season 4 GMU 12 | 100% | — | |
| EM012O4R Youth | Elk male rifle season 4 GMU 12 | 100% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: EE012W1R, EE012W2R, EF012W1R, EF012W2R, EF012W3R, EM011O2R, EM011O3R.
Draw results: CPW 2026 Primary ELK Post Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $974.27 ($129.11 to apply) · Youth $974.27 ($129.11 to apply). Open Mar 1 – Apr 6, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1,219 | 496 | 41% |
| 2023 | 1,262 | 340 | 27% |
| 2022 | 1,877 | 781 | 42% |
| 2021 | 1,941 | 659 | 34% |
2024 split: rifle 418 (84%) from 946 hunters, 44%, archery 71 (14%) from 246 hunters, 29%, muzzleloader 7 (1%) from 28 hunters, 25%
What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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. Source: CPW 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest; CPW 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates; CPW 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest.
The Ground
| Private | 179,621 ac | 78% |
| State land | 36,650 ac | 16% |
| BLM | 15,379 ac | 7% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 82 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.
▸ Sources 10
- CPW 2026 Primary ELK Post Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 2 CCR 406-0 Chapter W-0 General… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 Big Game Hunting brochure fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 web page fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2021 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 GMU Boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Colorado Parks 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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