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Colorado Elk — GMU 62

Colorado GMU 62 covers 880,843 acres and lies 17 miles south-west of Delta and 43 miles south-east of Grand Junction. 70% of it is public land, mostly BLM (40%) and national forest (29%). In 2024, 5,669 people hunted elk here and took 1,024 — 18% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 791 tags here for 396 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):3,584 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:1,130 Hunter success (2024):18% Public land:70% Size:880,843 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 62, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

27 licenses on offer · 3,584 tags · 1,130 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
  • EE062O4R elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 62 [62] 24 tags · 38 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    19% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE062O4R elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 62 [62] 5 tags · 6 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    40% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE062P1A elk either-sex archery private-land-only GMU 62 [62] 72 tags · 33 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 33% as 2nd choice
  • EE062P1R elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 62 170 tags · 44 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 15% as 2nd choice
  • EE062P4R elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 62 136 tags · 9 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 40% as 2nd choice
  • EE062P4R elk either-sex rifle private-land-only GMU 62 100 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EE062V1A elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 62 [62] 791 tags · 396 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 56% as 2nd choice
  • EE062V1A elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 62 [62] 385 tags · 10 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 75% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 62 [62] 20 tags · 17 applicants · Standard
    100% Likely draw 36% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 62 [62] 110 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 33% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O1R elk female rifle season 1 GMU 62 26 tags · 26 applicants · Standard
    69% Real chance 6% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O1R elk female rifle season 1 GMU 62 3 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 29% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 62 [62] 74 tags · 85 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    38% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 62 [62] 250 tags · 11 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    83% Likely draw 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 62 50 tags · 39 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 15% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 62 8 tags · 3 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 22% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 62 3 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants 38% as 2nd choice
  • EF062O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 62 50 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF062P2R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 62 [62] 300 tags · 22 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF062P2R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 62 [62] 175 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF062P3R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 62 310 tags · 13 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 9% as 2nd choice
  • EF062P3R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 62 175 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 50% as 2nd choice
  • EF062P4R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 62 224 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM062O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 62 [62] 30 tags · 94 applicants · needed 3 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM062O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 62 [62] 2 tags · 4 applicants · needed 3 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM062O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 62 81 tags · 265 applicants · needed 2 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM062O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 62 10 tags · 9 applicants · needed 4 pts · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% 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

Delta Grand Junction Rifle Cortez Craig
GMU 62 within Colorado
30 31 40 41 411 42 421 43 431 444 47 471 52 521 53 54 55 551 60 61 63 64 65 66 67 68 70 71 711 76 79 Delta Montrose Grand Junction
GMU 62 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 349,401 ac · 40%
  • Private 264,543 ac · 30%
  • National Forest 255,268 ac · 29%
  • County or city land 11,390 ac · 1%
  • State land 160 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 80 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 5,669 1,024 18%
2023 5,072 879 17%
2022 4,804 722 15%
2021 4,770 690 14%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 638 · 62% · 3,107 hunters, 21% success
  • Archery 345 · 34% · 2,365 hunters, 15% success
  • Muzzleloader 40 · 4% · 197 hunters, 20% 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