Oregon Elk · Unit 11 Scappoose

Oregon Unit 11 covers 479,782 acres and lies 10 miles west of St. Helens and 23 miles north of Forest Grove. 10% of it is public land, mostly state land (4%) and BLM (4%). In 2025, 2,564 people hunted elk here and took 639, a 25% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 211B, put up 33 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 2 nonresident first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 4 points.

Tags, 2026
215

5 licenses · NR capped at 5%

Applicants
6

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
25%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
10%

5% State

Size
750 mi²

479,782 acres

St. Helens Forest Grove Tigard Fairview Newberg 11
25%hunter success 2025 · 2,564 hunters, 639 elk

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.

Every License in Unit 11

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
211 2% 7
211A 100% 0
211B 6% 4
211C 100% 0 ▼1
211T · youth 6% 3 ▲1

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 211A1, 211A2, 211A3, 211A4.

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) 2,564 639 25%
2024 (summed) 2,608 714 27%
2023 (summed) 2,632 617 23%
2022 (summed) 2,579 528 20%
2021 (summed) 2,507 573 23%
2025 by LicenseHuntersElkSuccess
210c1 upper nehalem no. 1 7 6 83%
210c2 upper nehalem no. 2 5 7 —
211 scappoose unit 92 57 62%
211a north plains 77 36 46%
211b n central scappoose 77 53 69%
211c banks 33 16 48%
211t scappoose unit youth 18 14 81%
Coast 1st season 800 168 21%
Coast 2nd season 998 154 15%
200r oregon youth bow 6 2 40%
Western general bow elk w/ 216r1 0 0 0%
Western general bow elk w/ 216r2 1 0 0%
Western general bow elk w/ 217r 2 1 50%
Western general bow elk w/ 218r 1 0 0%
Western general bow elk w/ 219r 1 1 100%
Western general bow elk w/ 221r 0 0 0%
Western elk archery 446 124 28%

2025 split: rifle 511 (80%) from 2,107 hunters, 24%, archery 128 (20%) from 457 hunters, 28%

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 Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest….

The Ground

Private 433,248 ac 90%
State land 21,563 ac 4%
BLM 18,052 ac 4%
Other public 3,879 ac <1%
County or city land 2,753 ac <1%

Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.

▸ Sources 15
  1. ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. ODFW 2026 OAR chapter 635 division 060 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. ODFW 2026 Recreational Fee Schedule fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. ODFW 2023 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. ODFW 2023 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. ODFW 2022 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  11. ODFW 2022 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  12. ODFW 2021 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  13. ODFW 2021 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  14. ODFW 2026 Wildlife Management Unit boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  15. 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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