Idaho Elk — Unit 66A-1X
Idaho Unit 66A-1X covers 171,505 acres and lies 33 miles north-east of Soda Springs and 45 miles south-east of Ammon. 81% of it is public land, mostly national forest (66%) and other public land (13%). In 2022, 20 people hunted elk here and took 5 — 25% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 66A-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 112,668 ac · 66%
- Private 30,027 ac · 18%
- Other public 21,444 ac · 13%
- State land 2,963 ac · 2%
- Tribal 2,648 ac · 2%
- BLM 933 ac · 1%
- National Wildlife Refuge 410 ac · 0%
- Bureau of Reclamation 394 ac · 0%
Source: BLM Idaho Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)
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 | 20 | 5 | 25% |
| 2021 | 7 | 4 | 57% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 5 · 100% · 20 hunters, 25% 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)