Washington Elk — GMU 127

Mica Peak

Washington GMU 127 covers 325,987 acres and lies 13 miles south of Spokane Valley and 51 miles north of Pullman. 5% of it is public land, mostly county or city land (3%) and state trust land (1%). In 2025, hunters took 76 elk here.

Firearm hunter success (2025):16% Public land:5% Size:325,987 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 127 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Washington elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Spokane Moses Lake Walla Walla Wenatchee Yakima
GMU 127 within Washington
124 130 133 139 Spokane Valley
GMU 127 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

  • Private 310,177 ac · 95%
  • County or city land 11,045 ac · 3%
  • State trust land 3,243 ac · 1%
  • Other public 863 ac · 0%
  • State land 609 ac · 0%
  • BLM 48 ac · 0%

Source: WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands' (NDMPL) layer, federal/state/county/city ownership parcels

How the hunting has gone

What Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Washington's figures come from mandatory hunter reports. WDFW credits a multi-GMU special-permit hunt's harvest to every GMU it spans rather than splitting it, so unit totals add up to more than the statewide total.

Season Harvest
2025 76
2024 80
2023 99
2022 72
2021 96

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 11 · 16% · 158 hunters, 7% success
  • Firearm 51 · 73% · 315 hunters, 16% success
  • Muzzleloader 8 · 11% · 79 hunters, 10% success

Boundary: WDFW Hunt Planner 'UnitSpatial' polygon layer (WP_HuntPlanner/Regulation/MapServer/0)

Harvest: WDFW Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table (WP_HuntPlanner/Harvest/MapServer/1)

How we compute draw odds · All Washington elk hunts