Oregon Elk · Unit 37 Ochoco
Oregon Unit 37 spans 1,028,985 acres, centered 38 miles east of Prineville. 54% of it is public land, mostly national forest (42%) and BLM (11%). In 2025, 1,038 people hunted elk here and took 253, a 24% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 237R, put up 495 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 81 nonresident first-choice applicants, 16 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 3 points.
6 licenses · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
42% Forest Service
1,028,985 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
- 24%
- Season
- Aug 29 – Sep 27
- Tags / Apps
- 495 / 81
- If Drawn
- $863
- Success
- 24%
- Season
- Oct 28 – Nov 1
- Tags / Apps
- 138 / 73
- If Drawn
- $863
- Success
- 24%
- Season
- Nov 7–15
- Tags / Apps
- 138 / 74
- If Drawn
- $863
Every License in Unit 37
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 237A · private | Ochoco Private | 100% | 0 | |
| 237R | Ochoco Unit Bow | 18% | 3 ▲2 | |
| 237T1 · youth | Ochoco Unit No. 1 Youth | 2% | 5 | |
| 237T2 · youth | Ochoco Unit No. 2 Youth | 100% | 0 | |
| 237X | Ochoco Unit No. 1 | 2% | 11 ▲4 | |
| 237Y | Ochoco Unit No. 2 | 3% | 11 ▲4 |
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) | 1,038 | 253 | 24% |
| 2024 (summed) | 871 | 227 | 26% |
| 2023 (summed) | 1,258 | 246 | 20% |
| 2022 (summed) | 1,287 | 283 | 22% |
| 2021 (summed) | 1,281 | 286 | 22% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 237a ochoco private | 200 | 53 | 26% |
| 237t1 ochoco unit no. 1 youth | 10 | 6 | 60% |
| 237t2 ochoco unit no. 2 youth | 97 | 30 | 31% |
| 237x ochoco unit no. 1 | 143 | 45 | 32% |
| 237y ochoco unit no. 2 | 167 | 53 | 32% |
| 200r oregon youth bow | 21 | 2 | 12% |
| 237r ochoco unit bow | 400 | 64 | 16% |
2025 split: rifle 187 (74%) from 617 hunters, 30%, archery 66 (26%) from 421 hunters, 16%
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 Archery Elk Harvest by Zone; ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest…; ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest….
The Ground
| Private | 471,351 ac | 46% |
| National Forest | 431,160 ac | 42% |
| BLM | 117,360 ac | 11% |
| State land | 5,133 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 3,938 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 527 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 Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 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 2022 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… 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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