Colorado Elk · GMU 82
Colorado GMU 82 covers 697,042 acres and lies 29 miles north of Alamosa and 48 miles south-west of Cañon City. 64% of it is public land, mostly national park (20%) and national forest (19%). In 2024, 2,297 people hunted elk here and took 521, a 23% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, EE082O1R, put up 300 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 67 nonresident first-choice applicants.
17 licenses · NR capped at 25%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
20% National Park Service
697,042 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.
- Success
- 23%
- Season
- Oct 14–18
- Tags / Apps
- 300 / 67
- If Drawn
- $974.27
- Success
- 23%
- Season
- Nov 18–22
- Tags / Apps
- 100 / 19
- If Drawn
- $974.27
- Success
- 23%
- Season
- Oct 14–18
- Tags / Apps
- 75 / 1
- If Drawn
- $974.27
- Success
- 23%
- Season
- Oct 24 – Nov 1
- Tags / Apps
- 200 / 7
- If Drawn
- $974.27
Every License in GMU 82
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE082O1M Standard | Elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 82 | 74% | 0 | |
| EE082O1M Youth | Elk either-sex muzzleloader season 1 GMU 82 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| EE082O1R Standard | Elk either-sex rifle season 1 GMU 82 | 100% | — | |
| EE082O1R Youth | Elk either-sex rifle season 1 GMU 82 | 100% | — | |
| EE082O4R Standard | Elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 82 | 100% | — | |
| EE082O4R Youth | Elk either-sex rifle season 4 GMU 82 | 100% (small sample) | 0 | |
| EE082V1A Standard | Elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 82 | 100% | — | |
| EE082V1A Youth | Elk either-sex archery nonresident-only GMU 82 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF082O1M Standard | Elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 82 | — | — | |
| EF082O1R Standard | Elk female rifle season 1 GMU 82 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF082O2R Standard | Elk female rifle season 2 GMU 82 | 100% | — | |
| EF082O2R Youth | Elk female rifle season 2 GMU 82 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF082O3R Standard | Elk female rifle season 3 GMU 82 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF082O3R Youth | Elk female rifle season 3 GMU 82 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF082O4R Standard | Elk female rifle season 4 GMU 82 | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| EF082V1A Standard | Elk female archery nonresident-only GMU 82 | — | — | |
| EF682O1M Standard | Elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 682 | — | — |
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 | 2,297 | 521 | 23% |
| 2023 | 2,588 | 567 | 22% |
| 2022 | 2,565 | 595 | 23% |
| 2021 | 2,551 | 546 | 21% |
2024 split: rifle 466 (89%) from 1,706 hunters, 27%, archery 39 (7%) from 485 hunters, 8%, muzzleloader 16 (3%) from 106 hunters, 15%
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 | 251,577 ac | 36% |
| National Park Service | 136,732 ac | 20% |
| National Forest | 131,976 ac | 19% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 85,441 ac | 12% |
| BLM | 69,840 ac | 10% |
| State land | 21,474 ac | 3% |
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.
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