Montana Elk — Hunting District 452

Montana Hunting District 452 covers 216,733 acres and lies 12 miles east of White Sulphur Springs and 39 miles west of Harlowton. 39% of it is public land, mostly national forest (32%) and state trust land (6%). In 2025, hunters took 299 elk here.

Public land:39% Size:216,733 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 452 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 452 within Montana

Hunting District 452 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 132,857 ac · 61%
National Forest 69,766 ac · 32%
State trust land 13,372 ac · 6%
BLM 585 ac · 0%
County or city land 86 ac · 0%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 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.