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Colorado Elk — GMU 76

Colorado GMU 76 covers 621,433 acres and lies 56 miles north-east of Durango and 66 miles south-east of Montrose. 94% of it is public land, mostly national forest (94%). In 2024, 1,138 people hunted elk here and took 518 — 46% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 220 tags here for 19 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):951 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:1,738 Hunter success (2024):46% Public land:94% Size:621,433 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 76, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

20 licenses on offer · 951 tags · 1,738 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
  • EE076O1A elk either-sex archery season 1 GMU 76 [76] 28 tags · 544 applicants · needed 20 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE076O1A elk either-sex archery season 1 GMU 76 [76] 160 tags · 20 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF076O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 76 [76] 7 tags · 8 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF076O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 76 [76] 1 tags · 1 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EF076O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 76 [76] 58 tags · 78 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF076O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 76 [76] 220 tags · 19 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    83% Likely draw 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF076O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 76 46 tags · 43 applicants · Standard
    97% Likely draw 9% as 2nd choice
  • EF076O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 76 2 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 33% as 2nd choice
  • EF076O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 76 17 tags · 11 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 20% as 2nd choice
  • EF076O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 76 3 tags · 3 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 25% as 2nd choice
  • EM076E1R elk male rifle early season GMU 76 [76] 4 tags · 331 applicants · needed 29 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM076E1R elk male rifle early season GMU 76 [76] 30 tags · 16 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM076O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 76 [76] 12 tags · 143 applicants · needed 26 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM076O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 76 [76] 70 tags · 6 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM076O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 76 34 tags · 293 applicants · needed 21 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM076O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 76 190 tags · 14 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM076O2R elk male rifle season 2 GMU 76 8 tags · 127 applicants · needed 20 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM076O2R elk male rifle season 2 GMU 76 50 tags · 9 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM076O3R elk male rifle season 3 GMU 76 [76] 1 tags · 63 applicants · needed 21 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM076O3R elk male rifle season 3 GMU 76 [76] 10 tags · 7 applicants · 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
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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

Durango Montrose Alamosa Cañon City Grand Junction
GMU 76 within Colorado
65 66 68 681 74 75 751 77 78 79 80 Durango
GMU 76 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

  • National Forest 584,667 ac · 94%
  • Private 35,453 ac · 6%
  • County or city land 1,247 ac · 0%
  • BLM 64 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 1,138 518 46%
2023 1,118 353 32%
2022 1,091 443 41%
2021 1,009 332 33%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 411 · 79% · 881 hunters, 47% success
  • Archery 68 · 13% · 156 hunters, 44% success
  • Muzzleloader 39 · 8% · 101 hunters, 39% 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