Oregon Elk · Unit 10 Saddle Mtn
Oregon Unit 10 covers 578,661 acres and lies 17 miles south-east of Astoria and 39 miles west of St. Helens. 26% of it is public land, mostly state land (24%) and county or city land (1%). In 2025, 3,861 people hunted elk here and took 1,065, a 28% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 210X, put up 1,320 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 41 nonresident first-choice applicants, 6 of whom drew.
11 licenses · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
24% State
578,661 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- 28%
- Season
- Dec 1 – Jan 31
- Tags / Apps
- 82 / 3
- If Drawn
- $863
- Success
- 28%
- Season
- Feb 1 – Mar 31
- Tags / Apps
- 82 / 4
- If Drawn
- $863
- Success
- 28%
- Season
- Nov 14–17
- Tags / Apps
- 1,320 / 41
- If Drawn
- $863
- Success
- 28%
- Season
- Nov 21–27
- Tags / Apps
- 1,320 / 39
- If Drawn
- $863
Every License in Unit 10
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 210 | Saddle Mtn Unit | <1% | 13 ▲1 | |
| 210A1 | W Saddle Mtn No. 1 | 4% | 11 ▲4 | |
| 210A2 | W Saddle Mtn No. 2 | 4% | 6 ▼3 | |
| 210B1 | Central Saddle Mtn No. 1 | 4% | 6 ▲1 | |
| 210B2 | Central Saddle Mtn No. 2 | 6% | 8 ▲4 | |
| 210C1 | Upper Nehalem No. 1 | 10% | 2 | |
| 210C2 | Upper Nehalem No. 2 | 13% | 2 ▲1 | |
| 210D | Lower Columbia | 10% | 3 ▲1 | |
| 210T · youth | Saddle Mtn Unit Youth | 2% | 6 ▲1 | |
| 210X | Saddle Mtn Unit No. 1 | 100% | 0 | |
| 210Y | Saddle Mtn Unit No. 2 | 100% | 0 |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $863 ($203 to apply). Open Dec 1, 2026 – May 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 3,861 | 1,065 | 28% |
| 2024 (summed) | 4,230 | 1,008 | 24% |
| 2023 (summed) | 4,179 | 1,089 | 26% |
| 2022 (summed) | 4,057 | 995 | 25% |
| 2021 (summed) | 3,936 | 1,030 | 26% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 210 saddle mtn unit | 121 | 86 | 72% |
| 210a1 w saddle mtn no. 1 | 38 | 33 | 88% |
| 210a2 w saddle mtn no. 2 | 40 | 35 | 88% |
| 210b1 central saddle mtn no. 1 | 36 | 26 | 74% |
| 210b2 central saddle mtn no. 2 | 29 | 18 | 62% |
| 210c1 upper nehalem no. 1 | 74 | 60 | 80% |
| 210c2 upper nehalem no. 2 | 77 | 60 | 77% |
| 210d lower columbia | 89 | 65 | 74% |
| 210t saddle mtn unit youth | 10 | 7 | 67% |
| 210x saddle mtn unit no. 1 | 933 | 207 | 22% |
| 210y saddle mtn unit no. 2 | 949 | 206 | 22% |
| 212a1 miami-nehalem no. 1 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 212a2 miami-nehalem no. 2 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 200r oregon youth bow | 11 | 2 | 22% |
| Western general bow elk w/ 216r1 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Western general bow elk w/ 216r2 | 10 | 2 | 22% |
| Western general bow elk w/ 217r | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Western general bow elk w/ 218r | 9 | 1 | 12% |
| Western general bow elk w/ 219r | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| Western general bow elk w/ 221r | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Western elk archery | 1,420 | 251 | 18% |
2025 split: rifle 807 (76%) from 2,400 hunters, 34%, archery 258 (24%) from 1,461 hunters, 18%
What Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Oregon requires every tag holder to report, but the numbers ODFW publishes are survey estimates expanded from the reporting rate — the agency's own tables are titled "Estimated harvest... based on Mandatory Harvest Survey Reports" — not a count of animals checked in. Source: ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone; ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone.
The Ground
| Private | 427,663 ac | 74% |
| State land | 140,246 ac | 24% |
| County or city land | 7,092 ac | 1% |
| National Park Service | 1,367 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 1,275 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 300 ac | <1% |
| BLM | 39 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.
▸ Sources 15
- ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2026 OAR chapter 635 division 060 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2026 Recreational Fee Schedule fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2026 Wildlife Management Unit boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. 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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