Idaho Elk — Unit 75-1X
Idaho Unit 75-1X covers 242,327 acres and lies 13 miles south of Soda Springs and 31 miles north-east of Preston. 43% of it is public land, mostly national forest (36%) and BLM (4%). In 2022, 29 people hunted elk here and took 17 — 59% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 75-1X 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 138,953 ac · 57%
- National Forest 87,208 ac · 36%
- BLM 9,496 ac · 4%
- State land 6,522 ac · 3%
- Bureau of Reclamation 146 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 | 29 | 17 | 59% |
| 2021 | 32 | 19 | 59% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 17 · 100% · 29 hunters, 59% 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)