Colorado Elk — GMU 98

Colorado GMU 98 covers 1,146,236 acres and lies 39 miles south-east of Sterling and 67 miles east of Fort Morgan. 5% of it is public land, mostly state land (3%) and county or city land (2%). In 2024, 21 people hunted elk here and took 0 — 0% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2024):0% Public land:5% Size:1,146,236 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 98 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Colorado elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Sterling Fort Morgan Commerce City Wellington Parker
GMU 98 within Colorado
100 101 102 89 90 91 92 93 95 96 97 Sterling
GMU 98 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 1,091,319 ac · 95%
  • State land 34,266 ac · 3%
  • County or city land 20,425 ac · 2%
  • BLM 80 ac · 0%
  • Other public 18 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 2 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Colorado Surface Management Agency

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 21 0 0%
2023 25 3 11%
2022 13 5 43%
2021 48 10 21%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Rifle 0 · 21 hunters, 0% 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