Colorado Elk — GMU 144
Colorado GMU 144 covers 411,845 acres and lies 124 miles south-east of Pueblo. 36% of it is public land, mostly national forest (33%) and state land (2%). In 2024, 120 people hunted elk here and took 31 — 26% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 144 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
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
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 | 120 | 31 | 26% |
| 2023 | 89 | 23 | 26% |
| 2022 | 82 | 16 | 19% |
| 2021 | 111 | 19 | 17% |
What people carried (2024 harvest)
- Rifle 31 · 100% · 120 hunters, 26% success
Boundary: CPW GMU Boundary (Big Game)
Harvest: 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest
Harvest: 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates
Harvest: 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest