Oregon Elk · Unit 42 Hood
Oregon Unit 42 covers 240,787 acres and lies 27 miles west of The Dalles. 71% of it is public land, mostly national forest (64%) and county or city land (6%). In 2025, 339 people hunted elk here and took 72, a 21% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 242, put up 83 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 4 nonresident first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 1 point.
1 license · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
64% Forest Service
240,787 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in Unit 42
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 242 · private | Hood Private | 83% | 1 ▲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.
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) | 339 | 72 | 21% |
| 2024 (summed) | 316 | 59 | 19% |
| 2023 (summed) | 289 | 43 | 15% |
| 2022 (summed) | 334 | 64 | 19% |
| 2021 (summed) | 267 | 41 | 15% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 241b white rvr - hood | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| 241t white rvr - hood youth | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 241x white rvr - hood no. 1 | 52 | 6 | 11% |
| 241y white rvr - hood no. 2 | 126 | 22 | 17% |
| 242 hood private | 57 | 21 | 36% |
| Eastern general bow elk w/ 216r2 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Eastern elk archery | 95 | 20 | 21% |
2025 split: rifle 51 (71%) from 243 hunters, 21%, archery 21 (29%) from 96 hunters, 22%
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
| National Forest | 153,890 ac | 64% |
| Private | 70,304 ac | 29% |
| County or city land | 15,382 ac | 6% |
| State land | 1,009 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 79 ac | <1% |
| BLM | 78 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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