Washington Elk 2270 — GMU Elk Area 1054

Blue Creek — Antlerless Elk Hunt, Antlerless (Eastern Muzzleloader) · Blue Creek

What you may take
Blue Creek — Antlerless Elk Hunt, Antlerless (Eastern Muzzleloader) (female)
Weapon
Muzzleloader
Season (2026)
Dec 6–26, 2026
Nonresident tags (2025)
5
for 83 first-choice applicants

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Odds by point level — 2025 draw · 2026 draw pending — showing 2025 odds

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 5 tags, 83 first-choice applicants. Source: 2025 Elk individual hunts —... · table '2273 - Blue Creek'.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0–10 6% the pool average — a floor for anyone holding points, since each point adds entries

Unweighted tags ÷ applicants — state did not publish pools. Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife publishes no per-level counts for this hunt; each point adds entries ((points + 1)²), so the pool average is a floor for anyone holding points and an overstatement for a first-year applicant. How we compute these.

What it costs (2025 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$837.90
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$837.90
Total if drawn
tag fee not on file
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0
Nonresident special hunt permit application (per category) · paid at application $152.30 source
Nonresident elk license · paid at application $685.60 source

Next application window: opens Apr 20, closes May 27, 2027 (expected) · results ~June 30. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (0 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years with a published drew-out level.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Dec 6–26, 2026 p. LicenseYear=2026;PermitHuntNumber=2270

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2026 5 WDFW Hunt Planner 'Regulation'... · LicenseYear=2026;PermitHuntNumber=2270
2025 5 83 16.6 2025 Elk individual hunts —... · table '2273 - Blue Creek'
2024 15 96 6.4 2024 Elk individual hunts —... · table '2272 - Blue Creek'
2023 15 120 8.0 2023 Elk individual hunts —... · table '2287 - Blue Creek'
2022 15 122 8.1 2022 Elk individual hunts —... · table '2287 - Blue Creek'

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Washington reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years 2270 stood for another gmu or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.

Year · what it was Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2021 · GMU 154 15 150 10.0 2021 Elk individual hunts —... · table '2285 - Blue Creek'

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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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