Pennsylvania Elk · Zone 12 Pottersdale
Pennsylvania Zone 12 covers 82,961 acres and lies 29 miles north-west of State College and 48 miles north of Altoona. 41% of it is public land, mostly state land (41%). In 2023, hunters took 21 elk here; hunter counts not published. Its most applied-for hunt, EHZ12-GEN-C, put up 12 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw.
No more draws here. The last one was 2025.
Pennsylvania Game Commission held its 2026 elk draw without Zone 12. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Pennsylvania elk hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
6 licenses
first choice, resident
not published
100% State
82,961 acres
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Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2023. Resident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
None of these licenses drew anyone at your points in 2025: see the table below for the cut on each.
Every License in Zone 12
The last draw held in Zone 12 was 2025. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice resident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EHZ12-ARC-B | Elk Hunt Zone 12 archery season antlered elk | — | — | |
| EHZ12-ARC-C | Elk Hunt Zone 12 archery season antlerless elk | — | — | |
| EHZ12-GEN-B | Elk Hunt Zone 12 general season antlered elk | — | — | |
| EHZ12-GEN-C | Elk Hunt Zone 12 general season antlerless elk | — | — | |
| EHZ12-LATE-B | Elk Hunt Zone 12 late firearms season antlered elk | — | — | |
| EHZ12-LATE-C | Elk Hunt Zone 12 late firearms season antlerless elk | — | — |
First-choice resident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: PGC 2025-26 Hunting & Trapping Digest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2025 resident fees): $57.94 ($11.97 to apply). Open May 1 – Jul 12, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Elk |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 21 |
| 2022 | 26 |
| 2021 | 27 |
| 2020 | 19 |
| 2019 | 24 |
| 2018 | 19 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2023 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archery season | — | 5 | — |
| General season | — | 10 | — |
| Late season | — | 6 | — |
2023 split: archery 5 (24%), firearm 16 (76%)
What Pennsylvania Game Commission publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Hunter counts not published for 2023. Source: PGC 2023 Historic Harvest Data for Dashboards.
The Ground
| State land | 33,708 ac | 41% |
| Private or other non-public land | 49,253 ac | 59% |
Source: PGC 2023 State Gameland boundaries.
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Pennsylvania has no landowner tag program for elk. What owning land here does and does not change.
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▸ Sources 4
- PGC 2025-26 Hunting & Trapping Digest draw results, fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- PGC 2023 Historic Harvest Data for Dashboards harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- PGC 2020 Elk Management Zones boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- PGC 2023 State Gameland boundaries land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Pennsylvania Game Commission'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.
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