Colorado Elk — GMU 130

Colorado GMU 130 covers 308,402 acres and lies 76 miles east of Pueblo and 94 miles south-east of Fountain. 17% of it is public land, mostly state land (7%) and national forest (7%). In 2024, 66 people hunted elk here and took 5 — 8% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2024):8% Public land:17% Size:308,402 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 130 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 130 within Colorado
125 126 129 135 136 137 138 142 146
GMU 130 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 255,746 ac · 83%
  • State land 23,094 ac · 7%
  • National Forest 22,090 ac · 7%
  • County or city land 5,786 ac · 2%
  • BLM 1,193 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 490 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 66 5 8%
2023 48 20 42%
2022 53 26 49%
2021 73 5 7%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 5 · 100% · 63 hunters, 8% success
  • Archery 0 · 0% · 3 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