Colorado Elk · GMU 69
Colorado GMU 69 covers 186,737 acres and lies 11 miles south of Cañon City and 35 miles west of Pueblo. 36% of it is public land, mostly national forest (26%) and BLM (7%). In 2024, 293 people hunted elk here and took 77, a 26% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, EE069O1A, put up 23 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 145 nonresident first-choice applicants, 23 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 8 points.
22 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
26% Forest Service
186,737 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.
Every License in GMU 69
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE069O1A Standard | Elk either-sex archery season 1 GMU 69 | 0% | 8 ▲5 | |
| EE069O1A Youth | Elk either-sex archery season 1 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| EF069O1M Standard | Elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 | 100% | 0 ▼1 | |
| EF069O1M Youth | Elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | 0 | |
| EF069O2R Standard | Elk female rifle season 2 GMU 69 | 0% | 1 | |
| EF069O2R Youth | Elk female rifle season 2 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | 0 | |
| EF069O3R Standard | Elk female rifle season 3 GMU 69 | 50% | 0 | |
| EF069O3R Youth | Elk female rifle season 3 GMU 69 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| EF069O4R Standard | Elk female rifle season 4 GMU 69 | — | — | |
| EF069O4R Youth | Elk female rifle season 4 GMU 69 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF069P5R Standard · private | Elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% | — | |
| EF069P5R Youth · private | Elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EM069O1M Standard | Elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 | 0% | 10 ▲5 | |
| EM069O1M Youth | Elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| EM069O1R Standard | Elk male rifle season 1 GMU 69 | 0% | 11 ▲6 | |
| EM069O1R Youth | Elk male rifle season 1 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| EM069O2R Standard | Elk male rifle season 2 GMU 69 | 0% | 4 ▲1 | |
| EM069O2R Youth | Elk male rifle season 2 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| EM069O3R Standard | Elk male rifle season 3 GMU 69 | 0% | 5 ▲2 | |
| EM069O3R Youth | Elk male rifle season 3 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | — | |
| EM069O4R Standard | Elk male rifle season 4 GMU 69 | 0% | 3 ▲1 | |
| EM069O4R Youth | Elk male rifle season 4 GMU 69 | 0% (small sample) | 0 |
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 | 293 | 77 | 26% |
| 2023 | 335 | 89 | 27% |
| 2022 | 283 | 66 | 24% |
| 2021 | 237 | 49 | 21% |
2024 split: rifle 64 (83%) from 228 hunters, 28%, archery 5 (6%) from 35 hunters, 14%, muzzleloader 8 (10%) from 31 hunters, 26%
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 | 120,235 ac | 64% |
| National Forest | 48,943 ac | 26% |
| BLM | 12,248 ac | 7% |
| State land | 4,594 ac | 2% |
| County or city land | 711 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 4 ac | <1% |
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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