Nevada Elk — Unit 068

Jeffress

Nevada Unit 068 covers 1,132,480 acres and lies 27 miles north-west of Carlin and 41 miles west of Elko. 50% of it is public land, mostly BLM (49%). In 2025, 57 people hunted elk here and took 23 — 40% of them killed something. The 2025 draw put up 3 nonresident tags here for 239 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2025):5 Applicants:345 Hunter success (2025):40% Public land:50% Size:1,132,480 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in Unit 068, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level

4251-062.064.066.067.068-1022 Elk antlered | NR | Any Legal Weapon | 062, 064, 066 - 068 3 tags · 239 applicants

<1% Point builder <1% as 2nd choice
4256-062.064.066.067.068-0901 Elk antlered | NR | Muzzleloader | 062, 064, 066-068 1 tags · 73 applicants

<1% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
4261-062.064.066.067.068-0816 Elk antlered | NR | Archery | 062, 064, 066 - 068 1 tags · 33 applicants

<1% Point builder <1% as 2nd choice

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	As 2nd choice	Points needed	Tags / applicants	Season
4251-062.064.066.067.068-1022 ↗ Elk antlered \| NR \| Any Legal Weapon \| 062, 064, 066 - 068 Rifle	<1% Point builder	<1%	—	3 / 239	Oct 22 – Nov 5, 2026
4256-062.064.066.067.068-0901 ↗ Elk antlered \| NR \| Muzzleloader \| 062, 064, 066-068 Muzzleloader	<1% Point builder	0%	—	1 / 73	Sep 1–16, 2026
4261-062.064.066.067.068-0816 ↗ Elk antlered \| NR \| Archery \| 062, 064, 066 - 068 Archery	<1% Point builder	<1%	—	1 / 33	Aug 16–31, 2026

What these columns mean

Your odds: the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge: plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice: Nevada lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed: the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

14 hunts not offered in 2025 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License	Up front	Gone if you miss	If you draw
Per application	$173	$173	$673

Application window: opens Mar 23, closes May 13, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Unit 068

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2025 draw.

The country

Unit 068 within Nevada

Unit 068 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 568,967 ac · 50%
BLM 559,478 ac · 49%
Bureau of Reclamation 3,591 ac · 0%
State land 443 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Nevada Surface Management Agency

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Nevada Department of Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Nevada Department of Wildlife 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. Nevada Department of Wildlife reports this unit inside the group 062, 064, 066-068, so the figures below cover the whole group, not Unit 068 alone.