Idaho Elk — Unit 56-1X
Idaho Unit 56-1X covers 845,111 acres and lies 34 miles south of American Falls. 55% of it is public land, mostly BLM (25%) and national forest (18%). In 2022, 19 people hunted elk here and took 16 — 84% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 56-1X 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
- Private 379,475 ac · 45%
- BLM 213,516 ac · 25%
- National Forest 148,115 ac · 18%
- Other public 90,608 ac · 11%
- State land 13,201 ac · 2%
- Bureau of Reclamation 114 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 | 19 | 16 | 84% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 16 · 100% · 19 hunters, 84% 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)