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Colorado Elk — GMU 140

Colorado GMU 140 covers 293,741 acres and lies 84 miles south of Pueblo and 95 miles east of Alamosa. 15% of it is public land, mostly county or city land (11%) and state land (4%). In 2024, 265 people hunted elk here and took 109 — 41% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 499 tags here for 441 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):2,291 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:885 Hunter success (2024):41% Public land:15% Size:293,741 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 140, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

22 licenses on offer · 2,291 tags · 885 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • EE085O1M elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 85 [85, 140, 851 Except Bosque del Oso SWA] 32 tags · 100 applicants · needed 2 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE085O1M elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 85 [85, 140, 851 Except Bosque del Oso SWA] 120 tags · 2 applicants · needed 4 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE085O1R elk either-sex rifle season 1 GMU 85 25 tags · 69 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE085O1R elk either-sex rifle season 1 GMU 85 4 tags · 9 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE085O4R elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 85 62 tags · 59 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    70% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE085O4R elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 85 10 tags · 5 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE085P1R elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 85 229 tags · 113 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE085P1R elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 85 225 tags · 7 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE085V1A elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 85 [85, 140, 851 except Bosque del Oso SWA] 499 tags · 441 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 47% as 2nd choice
  • EE085V1A elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 85 [85, 140, 851 except Bosque del Oso SWA] 50 tags · 8 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF085L1R elk female rifle late season GMU 85 [85, 140, 851, except the Bosque del Oso State Wildlife Area] 2 tags · 2 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF085O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 85 [85, 140, 851 Except Bosque del Oso SWA] 38 tags · 2 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 43% as 2nd choice
  • EF085O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 85 13 tags · 22 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    8% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF085O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 85 50 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EF085O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 85 [85, 140, 851 except Bosque del Oso SWA] 7 tags · 4 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 4% as 2nd choice
  • EF085O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 85 11 tags · 5 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 7% as 2nd choice
  • EF085O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 85 50 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF085P5R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 85 [85, 140, 851] 202 tags · 21 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    79% Likely draw 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF085P5R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 85 [85, 140, 851] 200 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF085P6R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 85 229 tags · 11 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 38% as 2nd choice
  • EF085P6R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 85 225 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EF085V1A elk female archery nonresident-only GMU 85 [85, 140, 851 except Bosque del Oso SWA] 8 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Undersubscribed
What these columns mean
Your odds
—
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
—
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
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Colorado lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
—
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
—
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Standard license $129.11 $129.11 $974.27
Youth license $129.11 $129.11 $974.27

Application window: opens Mar 1, closes Apr 7, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Pueblo Alamosa Fountain Monument Castle Rock
GMU 140 within Colorado
134 136 141 147
GMU 140 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 249,821 ac · 85%
  • County or city land 32,814 ac · 11%
  • State land 10,959 ac · 4%
  • BLM 39 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

Nearby areas

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 265 109 41%
2023 259 83 32%
2022 333 111 33%
2021 320 92 29%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 65 · 60% · 125 hunters, 52% success
  • Archery 37 · 34% · 122 hunters, 30% success
  • Muzzleloader 7 · 6% · 18 hunters, 39% 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