Kansas Elk · Unit 2A Fort Riley
Kansas Unit 2A covers 101,725 acres and lies 11 miles north of Junction City and 28 miles north-east of Abilene. 100% of it is public land, mostly military (100%). In 2024, 30 people hunted elk here and took 18, a 60% success rate (sum of published hunt rows).
0 licenses · NR capped at 0%
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
100% Other public
101,725 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in Unit 2A
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no result: ELK-ANTLERLESS-DRAW, ELK-ANY-DRAW.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 (summed) | 30 | 18 | 60% |
| 2023 (summed) | 30 | 17 | 57% |
What Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks publishes no whole-unit line for 2024; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: KDWP 2024-25 Elk Harvest Report; KDWP 2023-24 Elk Harvest Report.
The Ground
| Department of Defense | 101,725 ac | 100% |
| Private | 0 ac | <1% |
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2026 PAD-US 4.1.
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What the Agency Says About the Area
The state is divided into three elk management units. No elk hunting is currently allowed in Unit 1. Unit 2 includes parts of Clay, Dickinson, Riley and Geary counties. Unit 2A is the Fort Riley reservation. Unit 3 is the remaining part of the state. Boundary taken from the Department of Defense's own Fort Riley installation boundary; it lies wholly inside elk unit 2, so unit 2 and unit 2A overlap and their acres must not be added together.
▸ Sources 5
- KDWP 2024-25 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- KDWP 2023-24 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- U.S. Department of Defense (MIRTA), republished by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2026 Military Installations boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2026 PAD-US 4.1 land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- KDWP 2026 Hunting & Furharvesting Regulations… area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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