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Colorado Elk — GMU 60

Colorado GMU 60 covers 152,047 acres and lies 47 miles south-west of Grand Junction. 82% of it is public land, mostly BLM (65%) and national forest (18%). In 2024, 564 people hunted elk here and took 140 — 25% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 287 tags here for 0 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):662 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:54 Hunter success (2024):25% Public land:82% Size:152,047 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 60, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

17 licenses on offer · 662 tags · 54 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
  • EE060O4R elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 60 16 tags · 5 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 50% as 2nd choice
  • EE060O4R elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 60 75 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EE060P1R elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 60 39 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • EE060P4R elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 60 38 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EE060V1A elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 60 [60] 14 tags · 8 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 33% as 2nd choice
  • EE060V1A elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 60 [60] 30 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 100% as 2nd choice
  • EF060O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 60 [60] 19 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • EF060O1R elk female rifle season 1 GMU 60 [60] 8 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • EF060O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 60 6 tags · 3 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 50% as 2nd choice
  • EF060O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 60 4 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 60% as 2nd choice
  • EF060O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 60 15 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF060O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 60 9 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Cut level
  • EF060P5R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 60 [60] 287 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants 60% as 2nd choice
  • EF060P6R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 60 [60] 30 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 50% as 2nd choice
  • EM060O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 60 [60] 9 tags · 5 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 75% as 2nd choice
  • EM060O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 60 [60] 25 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EM060O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 60 [60] 38 tags · 27 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 52% 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
—
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

Grand Junction Delta Cortez Rifle Craig
GMU 60 within Colorado
40 411 61 62
GMU 60 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

  • BLM 98,114 ac · 65%
  • National Forest 27,022 ac · 18%
  • Private 26,844 ac · 18%

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 564 140 25%
2023 461 70 15%
2022 351 104 30%
2021 422 102 24%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 127 · 91% · 483 hunters, 26% success
  • Archery 13 · 9% · 62 hunters, 21% success
  • Muzzleloader 0 · 0% · 19 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