Montana Elk — Hunting District 525

Montana Hunting District 525 covers 1,044,368 acres and lies 29 miles south of Big Timber. 64% of it is public land, mostly national forest (60%) and state trust land (2%). In 2025, hunters took 421 elk here.

Public land:64% Size:1,044,368 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 525 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 525 within Montana

Hunting District 525 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

National Forest 629,231 ac · 60%
Private 374,510 ac · 36%
State trust land 25,587 ac · 2%
BLM 11,488 ac · 1%
State land 1,253 ac · 0%
County or city land 835 ac · 0%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 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.