Idaho Elk — Unit 21A-1X
Idaho Unit 21A-1X covers 1,386,894 acres and lies 39 miles south of Salmon and 69 miles north of Ketchum. 80% of it is public land, mostly BLM (75%) and state land (5%). In 2022, 5 people hunted elk here and took 3 — 60% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 21A-1X in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Idaho elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- BLM 1,033,455 ac · 75%
- Private 281,275 ac · 20%
- State land 66,359 ac · 5%
- Other public 4,453 ac · 0%
- National Forest 1,177 ac · 0%
Source: BLM Idaho Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)
Nearby areas
How the hunting has gone
What Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. Idaho's figures are counts from mandatory hunter reports and check stations rather than survey estimates, so they behave differently from the survey states.
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 3 | 60% |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Muzzleloader 3 · 100% · 5 hunters, 60% success
Boundary: Controlled Hunts - All Species, BigGame='Elk' AND Year=2025 (hunt-area boundaries)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2022 (general + controlled hunt tables)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2021 (general + controlled hunt tables)