Colorado Elk · GMU 58

Colorado GMU 58 covers 558,397 acres and lies 31 miles north-west of Cañon City and 51 miles west of Colorado Springs. 50% of it is public land, mostly BLM (29%) and state land (11%). In 2024, 906 people hunted elk here and took 288, a 32% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, EE057O1A, put up 180 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 168 nonresident first-choice applicants, 36 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 4 points.

Tags, 2026
2,792

24 licenses · NR capped at 25%

Applicants
699

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
32%

2024, all licenses

Public Land
50%

29% BLM

Size
872 mi²

558,397 acres

Cañon City Monument 58
32%hunter success 2024 · 906 hunters, 288 elk

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.

Every License in GMU 58

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
EE057O1A Standard 0% 4 ▲3
Youth 0% (small sample) —
EF057O1M Standard 100% —
Youth 100% (small sample) —
EF057O1R Standard 33% 0
Youth 100% (small sample) —
EF057O2R Standard 50% 0 ▼1
Youth 100% (small sample) —
EF057O3R Standard 0% 1 ▲1
Youth 100% (small sample) —
EF057O4R Standard 100% 0
Youth 0% (small sample) 0
EF057P5R Standard · private 100% —
Youth · private 100% (small sample) 0
EM057O1M Standard 0% 7 ▲4
Youth 0% (small sample) —
EM057O1R Standard 0% 9 ▲5
Youth 0% (small sample) —
EM057O2R Standard 0% 5 ▲2
Youth 0% (small sample) —
EM057O3R Standard 0% 5 ▲3
Youth 0% (small sample) 0
EM057O4R Standard 0% 3 ▲1
Youth 0% (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 906 288 32%
2023 836 206 25%
2022 775 270 35%
2021 756 227 30%

2024 split: rifle 205 (71%) from 647 hunters, 32%, archery 40 (14%) from 130 hunters, 31%, muzzleloader 42 (15%) from 129 hunters, 33%

What Colorado Parks and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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

Private 281,169 ac 50%
BLM 163,478 ac 29%
State land 60,771 ac 11%
National Forest 52,978 ac 9%

Source: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 10
  1. CPW 2026 Primary ELK Post Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. CPW 2026 2 CCR 406-0 Chapter W-0 General… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. CPW 2026 Big Game Hunting brochure fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. CPW 2026 web page fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. CPW 2024 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. CPW 2023 Statewide Elk Hunting Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. CPW 2022 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. CPW 2021 Statewide Elk Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. CPW 2026 GMU Boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. 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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