Idaho Elk — Unit 50-1X
Idaho Unit 50-1X covers 1,047,610 acres and lies 34 miles east of Ketchum. 83% of it is public land, mostly national forest (51%) and BLM (29%). In 2023, 32 people hunted elk here and took 19 — 59% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 50-1X 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
- National Forest 535,171 ac · 51%
- BLM 305,143 ac · 29%
- Private 180,518 ac · 17%
- State land 17,154 ac · 2%
- National Park Service 9,557 ac · 1%
- Other public 64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 32 | 19 | 59% |
| 2022 | 95 | 56 | 59% |
| 2021 | 25 | 22 | 88% |
What people carried (2023 harvest)
- Firearm 19 · 100% · 32 hunters, 59% success
Boundary: Controlled Hunts - All Species, BigGame='Elk' AND Year=2025 (hunt-area boundaries)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2023 (general + controlled hunt tables)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2022 (general + controlled hunt tables)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2021 (general + controlled hunt tables)