Montana Elk — Hunting District 451

Montana Hunting District 451 covers 90,875 acres and lies 17 miles south of White Sulphur Springs and 27 miles east of Townsend. 17% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (10%) and national forest (6%). In 2025, hunters took 39 elk here.

Public land:17% Size:90,875 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 451 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Montana elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Hunting District 451 within Montana

Hunting District 451 and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

Private 75,117 ac · 83%
State trust land 9,078 ac · 10%
National Forest 5,679 ac · 6%
BLM 981 ac · 1%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
County or city land 0 ac · 0%
State land 0 ac · 0%
National Wildlife Refuge 0 ac · 0%
Tribal 0 ac · 0%
Other public 0 ac · 0%

Source: Deer Elk Lion 2026-2027 Hunting District Landcover and Land Ownership Calculations

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Montana's figures blend mandatory reporting with a phone and mail survey. FWP does not publish district-level hunter counts for elk or antelope, so success rates are missing for those.