Oregon Elk — Unit 69

Steens Mtn

Oregon Unit 69 covers 1,224,566 acres and lies 114 miles south-west of Ontario. 64% of it is public land, mostly BLM (49%) and wildlife refuge (10%). In 2025, 112 people hunted elk here and took 10 — 9% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):9% Public land:64% Size:1,224,566 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in Unit 69 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Oregon elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Unit 69 within Oregon

Unit 69 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

BLM 600,212 ac · 49%
Private 442,687 ac · 36%
National Wildlife Refuge 120,972 ac · 10%
State land 60,069 ac · 5%
Tribal 538 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Oregon/Washington Land Status Ownership (BLM_OR_Ownership MapServer)

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Oregon Department of Fish and 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. 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.