Colorado Elk · GMU 471
Colorado GMU 471 covers 66,588 acres and lies 39 miles south of Gypsum and 64 miles south-east of Rifle. 90% of it is public land, mostly national forest (90%). In 2024, 280 people hunted elk here and took 30, a 11% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, EE043V1A, put up 520 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 134 first-choice applicants (one pool for residents and nonresidents).
17 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
90% Forest Service
66,588 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2024. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- 11%
- Season
- Oct 14–18
- Tags / Apps
- 225 / 97
- If Drawn
- $974.27
- Success
- 11%
- Season
- Sep 2–30
- Tags / Apps
- 520 / 134
- If Drawn
- $974.27
- Success
- 11%
- Season
- Sep 2–30
- Tags / Apps
- 10 / 1
- If Drawn
- $974.27
- Success
- 11%
- Season
- Sep 12–20
- Tags / Apps
- 175 / 92
- If Drawn
- $974.27
Every License in GMU 471
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE043O1R Standard | Elk either-sex rifle season 1 GMU 43 | 60% | 0 | |
| EE043O1R Youth | Elk either-sex rifle season 1 GMU 43 | 25% (small sample) | 0 | |
| EE043P1R Standard · private | Elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 43 | 100% | 0 | |
| EE043V1A Standard | Elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 43 | 100% | — | |
| EE043V1A Youth | Elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 43 | 100% | — | |
| EE471O4R Standard | Elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 471 | — | — | |
| EF043O1M Standard | Elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 43 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| EF043O1R Standard | Elk female rifle season 1 GMU 43 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| EF043V1A Standard | Elk female archery nonresident-only GMU 43 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF043V1A Youth | Elk female archery nonresident-only GMU 43 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF471O2R Standard | Elk female rifle season 2 GMU 471 | — | — | |
| EF471O2R Youth | Elk female rifle season 2 GMU 471 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF471O3R Standard | Elk female rifle season 3 GMU 471 | — | — | |
| EF471O4R Standard | Elk female rifle season 4 GMU 471 | — | — | |
| EF471P5R Standard · private | Elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 471 | 100% | — | |
| EM043O1M Standard | Elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 43 | 93% | — | |
| EM043O1M Youth | Elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 43 | 100% (small sample) | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: CPW 2026 Primary ELK Post Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $974.27 ($129.11 to apply) · Youth $974.27 ($129.11 to apply). Open Mar 1 – Apr 6, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 280 | 30 | 11% |
| 2023 (summed) | 288 | 13 | 5% |
| 2022 | 372 | 46 | 12% |
| 2021 | 329 | 40 | 12% |
2024 split: rifle 13 (45%) from 112 hunters, 12%, archery 16 (55%) from 162 hunters, 10%, muzzleloader 0 (0%)
What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes no whole-GMU line for some years; a year's total is the sum of published rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. 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. Source: CPW 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest; CPW 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates; CPW 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest.
The Ground
| National Forest | 59,614 ac | 90% |
| Private | 6,973 ac | 10% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.
▸ Sources 10
- CPW 2026 Primary ELK Post Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 2 CCR 406-0 Chapter W-0 General… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 Big Game Hunting brochure fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 web page fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2021 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- CPW 2026 GMU Boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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