Colorado Elk — GMU 136

Colorado GMU 136 covers 364,711 acres and lies 83 miles south-east of Pueblo. 14% of it is public land, mostly state land (7%) and national forest (6%). In 2024, 85 people hunted elk here and took 17 — 20% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2024):20% Public land:14% Size:364,711 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 136 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 Alamosa Monument Castle Rock
GMU 136 within Colorado
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GMU 136 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 314,432 ac · 86%
  • State land 25,669 ac · 7%
  • National Forest 22,869 ac · 6%
  • County or city land 1,701 ac · 0%
  • BLM 39 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 85 17 20%
2023 100 26 26%
2022 119 10 9%
2021 131 30 23%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 17 · 100% · 82 hunters, 21% 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