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Colorado Elk — GMU 34

Colorado GMU 34 covers 123,483 acres and lies 8 miles north-east of Glenwood Springs and 18 miles west of Gypsum. 92% of it is public land, mostly national forest (73%) and BLM (19%). In 2024, 1,002 people hunted elk here and took 102 — 10% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 1,647 tags here for 1,485 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):6,515 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:2,802 Hunter success (2024):10% Public land:92% Size:123,483 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 34, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

21 licenses on offer · 6,515 tags · 2,802 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
  • EE011P1A elk either-sex archery private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 23, 24, 25, 26, 33, 34 131, 211, 231] 1,439 tags · 364 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 38% as 2nd choice
  • EE011P1A elk either-sex archery private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 23, 24, 25, 26, 33, 34 131, 211, 231] 439 tags · 5 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 75% as 2nd choice
  • EE011P1R elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 23, 24 25, 26, 33, 34, 131 211, 231] 920 tags · 308 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 23% as 2nd choice
  • EE011P1R elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 23, 24 25, 26, 33, 34, 131 211, 231] 220 tags · 7 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE025O1M elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 25 [25, 26, 34, 231] 73 tags · 123 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE025O1M elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 25 [25, 26, 34, 231] 150 tags · 3 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE025V1A elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 25 [25, 26, 34, 231] 665 tags · 382 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 51% as 2nd choice
  • EE025V1A elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 25 [25, 26, 34, 231] 275 tags · 8 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 33% as 2nd choice
  • EF025O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 25 [25, 26, 34, 231] 76 tags · 2 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 58% as 2nd choice
  • EF025O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 25 [25, 26, 34, 231] 74 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF025O1R elk female rifle season 1 GMU 25 [25, 26, 34] 96 tags · 26 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 8% as 2nd choice
  • EF025O1R elk female rifle season 1 GMU 25 [25, 26, 34] 200 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 25% as 2nd choice
  • EF034O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 34 [34] 12 tags · 13 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    60% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF034O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 34 [34] 50 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • EF034O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 34 [34] 24 tags · 3 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 80% as 2nd choice
  • EF034O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 34 18 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • EF034P5R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 34 [34] 11 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF034P5R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 34 [34] 10 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM011O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 23, 24, 25, 26, 33, 34, 131, 211 231] 1,647 tags · 1,485 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 26% as 2nd choice
  • EM011O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 11 [11, 12, 13, 23, 24, 25, 26, 33, 34, 131, 211 231] 92 tags · 70 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 19% as 2nd choice
  • EM034O4R elk male rifle season 4 GMU 34 24 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 57% 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

Glenwood Springs Steamboat Springs Delta Grand Junction Golden
GMU 34 within Colorado
25 33 35 44 444 Glenwood Springs Gypsum
GMU 34 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

  • National Forest 90,603 ac · 73%
  • BLM 22,936 ac · 19%
  • Private 9,942 ac · 8%
  • County or city land 1 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 1,002 102 10%
2023 952 81 8%
2022 1,118 114 10%
2021 1,129 93 8%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 73 · 72% · 585 hunters, 12% success
  • Archery 29 · 28% · 355 hunters, 8% success
  • Muzzleloader 0 · 0% · 62 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