Idaho Elk — Unit 68-1X
Idaho Unit 68-1X covers 1,163,239 acres and lies 24 miles north of American Falls and 33 miles north-west of Pocatello. 70% of it is public land, mostly BLM (55%) and national park (7%). In 2022, 16 people hunted elk here and took 7 — 44% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 68-1X 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 634,785 ac · 55%
- Private 346,809 ac · 30%
- National Park Service 78,162 ac · 7%
- Other public 74,199 ac · 6%
- State land 24,826 ac · 2%
- Bureau of Reclamation 4,087 ac · 0%
- National Wildlife Refuge 369 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 | 16 | 7 | 44% |
| 2021 | 17 | 7 | 41% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 7 · 100% · 16 hunters, 44% 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)