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Colorado Elk — GMU 191

Colorado GMU 191 covers 203,000 acres and lies 22 miles west of Wellington. 49% of it is public land, mostly national forest (33%) and county or city land (15%). In 2024, 601 people hunted elk here and took 22 — 4% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 293 tags here for 413 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):1,005 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:661 Hunter success (2024):4% Public land:49% Size:203,000 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 191, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

17 licenses on offer · 1,005 tags · 661 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
  • EE007O1A elk either-sex archery season 1 GMU 7 [7, 8, 9, 19, 191] 293 tags · 413 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    32% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE007O1A elk either-sex archery season 1 GMU 7 [7, 8, 9, 19, 191] 31 tags · 12 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    29% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF007O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 7 [7, 8, 9, 19, 191] 35 tags · 27 applicants · Standard
    100% Likely draw 48% as 2nd choice
  • EF007O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 7 [7, 8, 9, 19, 191] 8 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EF191L1R elk female rifle late season GMU 191 [191] 17 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Undersubscribed
  • EF191O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 191 3 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF191O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 191 50 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EF191O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 191 2 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 60% as 2nd choice
  • EF191O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 191 4 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • EF191P5R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 191 [191] 137 tags · 2 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM007O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 7 [7, 8, 9, 19, 191] 92 tags · 166 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM007O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 7 [7, 8, 9, 19, 191] 9 tags · 9 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM191O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 191 10 tags · 9 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 25% as 2nd choice
  • EM191O2R elk male rifle season 2 GMU 191 89 tags · 11 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM191O2R elk male rifle season 2 GMU 191 150 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM191O3R elk male rifle season 3 GMU 191 41 tags · 4 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 67% as 2nd choice
  • EM191O4R elk male rifle season 4 GMU 191 [191] 34 tags · 2 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
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
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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
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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

Wellington Berthoud Louisville Steamboat Springs Englewood
GMU 191 within Colorado
19 7 8 9 Wellington Fort Collins
GMU 191 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 103,603 ac · 51%
  • National Forest 66,041 ac · 33%
  • County or city land 29,753 ac · 15%
  • State land 3,283 ac · 2%
  • BLM 319 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 601 22 4%
2023 601 66 11%
2022 612 48 8%
2021 597 47 8%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 15 · 68% · 482 hunters, 3% success
  • Archery 7 · 32% · 81 hunters, 9% success
  • Muzzleloader 0 · 0% · 38 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