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Colorado Elk — GMU 84

Colorado GMU 84 covers 819,874 acres and lies 26 miles south-west of Pueblo and 47 miles south of Fountain. 29% of it is public land, mostly national forest (20%) and county or city land (4%). In 2024, 722 people hunted elk here and took 272 — 38% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 655 tags here for 28 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):1,208 Nonresident share:capped at 25% Applicants:493 Hunter success (2024):38% Public land:29% Size:819,874 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 84, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

29 licenses on offer · 1,208 tags · 493 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
  • EE069O1A elk either-sex archery season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84] 23 tags · 145 applicants · needed 8 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EE069O1A elk either-sex archery season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84] 115 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder
  • EE084W1R elk either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 84 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • EE084W2R elk either-sex rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 84 3 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • EF069O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84] 7 tags · 5 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF069O1M elk female muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84] 30 tags · 1 applicants · needed 1 pts · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed
  • EF069O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 69 [69, 84] 11 tags · 7 applicants · needed 1 pts · Standard
    0% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF069O2R elk female rifle season 2 GMU 69 [69, 84] 2 tags · 2 applicants · needed 2 pts · Youth
    0% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF069O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 69 8 tags · 7 applicants · needed 0 pts · Standard
    50% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF069O3R elk female rifle season 3 GMU 69 75 tags · 2 applicants · needed 0 pts · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed
  • EF069O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 69 1 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Undersubscribed
  • EF069O4R elk female rifle season 4 GMU 69 45 tags · 0 applicants · Youth
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • EF069P5R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84] 655 tags · 28 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 54% as 2nd choice
  • EF069P5R elk female rifle private-land-only GMU 69 [69, 84] 5 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • EF084W1R elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 84 5 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • EF084W2R elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 84 9 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • EF084W3R elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 84 5 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • EF084W4R elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 84 8 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • EF084W5R elk female rifle Ranching for Wildlife GMU 84 5 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • EM069O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84] 11 tags · 49 applicants · needed 10 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM069O1M elk male muzzleloader season 1 GMU 69 [69, 84] 55 tags · 1 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder
  • EM069O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 69 15 tags · 129 applicants · needed 11 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM069O1R elk male rifle season 1 GMU 69 75 tags · 4 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM069O2R elk male rifle season 2 GMU 69 17 tags · 53 applicants · needed 4 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM069O2R elk male rifle season 2 GMU 69 2 tags · 5 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM069O3R elk male rifle season 3 GMU 69 11 tags · 32 applicants · needed 5 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM069O3R elk male rifle season 3 GMU 69 1 tags · 2 applicants · Youth
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM069O4R elk male rifle season 4 GMU 69 7 tags · 15 applicants · needed 3 pts · Standard
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • EM069O4R elk male rifle season 4 GMU 69 1 tags · 4 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
—
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
—
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

Pueblo Fountain Alamosa Monument Castle Rock
GMU 84 within Colorado
118 119 120 123 124 128 129 133 134 135 136 141 142 147 481 551 56 561 57 58 581 59 591 68 681 682 69 691 79 791 80 82 83 85 86 861 Pueblo Cañon City Fountain Alamosa
GMU 84 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

  • Private 582,737 ac · 71%
  • National Forest 160,133 ac · 20%
  • County or city land 29,679 ac · 4%
  • BLM 25,693 ac · 3%
  • State land 20,681 ac · 3%
  • Other public 598 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 350 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 722 272 38%
2023 667 292 44%
2022 530 217 41%
2021 536 199 37%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 234 · 86% · 597 hunters, 39% success
  • Archery 22 · 8% · 75 hunters, 29% success
  • Muzzleloader 16 · 6% · 50 hunters, 32% 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