Colorado Elk — GMU 137

Colorado GMU 137 covers 369,726 acres and lies 99 miles south-east of Pueblo. 14% of it is public land, mostly national forest (10%) and state land (4%). In 2024, 50 people hunted elk here and took 23 — 45% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2024):45% Public land:14% Size:369,726 acres

Your chance of drawing here

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.

The country

Pueblo Fountain Monument Alamosa Castle Rock
GMU 137 within Colorado
135 136 138 143 144 147
GMU 137 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 318,101 ac · 86%
  • National Forest 36,355 ac · 10%
  • State land 13,248 ac · 4%
  • County or city land 1,941 ac · 1%
  • BLM 79 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 50 23 45%
2023 35 9 25%
2022 44 16 35%
2021 83 25 30%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 23 · 100% · 47 hunters, 49% 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