Colorado Elk · GMU 137

Colorado GMU 137 covers 369,726 acres and lies 19 miles north-east of Kim and 46 miles south of Hasty. 14% of it is public land, mostly national forest (10%) and state land (4%). In 2024, 50 people hunted elk here and took 23, a 45% success rate.

Tags
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0 licenses · NR capped at 25%

Applicants
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first choice, NR

Hunter Success
45%

2024, all licenses

Public Land
14%

10% Forest Service

Size
578 mi²

369,726 acres

Kim 137
45%hunter success 2024 · 50 hunters, 23 elk

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Licenses

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 137 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.

Harvest

Year Hunters Elk Success
2024 50 23 45%
2023 35 9 25%
2022 44 16 35%
2021 83 25 30%

2024 split: rifle 23 (100%) from 47 hunters, 49%, archery 0 (0%)

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 318,101 ac 86%
National Forest 36,355 ac 10%
State land 15,190 ac 4%
BLM 79 ac <1%

Source: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 6
  1. CPW 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. CPW 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. CPW 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. CPW 2021 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. CPW 2026 GMU Boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

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. How we compute these.

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We don't take applications: check Colorado Parks and Wildlife's site and apply there.

Prior-draw odds from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Colorado elk hunts