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Washington Elk — GMU 154

Blue Creek

Washington GMU 154 covers 138,711 acres and lies 11 miles east of Walla Walla and 49 miles east of Pasco. 3% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (1%). In 2025, hunters took 35 elk here. The 2026 draw put up 6 nonresident tags here.

Nonresident tags (2026):27 Firearm hunter success (2025):10% Public land:3% Size:138,711 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 154, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

9 licenses on offer · 27 tags in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 2002 Blue Creek — Quality Elk Hunt, Any bull (Eastern Firearm) 1 tags
    — Cut level
  • 2003 Blue Creek — Quality Elk Hunt, Any bull (Eastern Firearm) 6 tags
    — Cut level
  • 2047 Blue Creek — Quality Elk Hunt, Any bull (Eastern Archery) 2 tags
    — Cut level
  • 2070 Blue Creek — Quality Elk Hunt, Any bull (Eastern Muzzleloader) 1 tags
    — Cut level
  • 2211 Blue Creek — Antlerless Elk Hunt, Antlerless (Eastern Firearm) 5 tags
    — Cut level
  • 2246 Blue Creek — Antlerless Elk Hunt, Antlerless (Eastern Archery) 5 tags
    — Cut level
  • 2406 Blue Creek — Youth Elk Hunt, Antlerless (Eastern Firearm) 5 tags
    — Cut level
  • 2502 Blue Creek — Elk Hunters 65 Years And Older, Antlerless (Eastern Firearm) 1 tags
    — Cut level
  • 2604 Blue Creek — Elk Hunters with Disabilities, Antlerless (Eastern Firearm) 1 tags
    — Cut level
What these columns mean
Your odds
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the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
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plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Points needed
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the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
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tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
2 hunts not offered in 2026 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $837.90 $837.90 $837.90

Application window: opens Apr 20, closes May 27, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in GMU 154

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

2211/2022 — Blue Creek — Antlerless Elk Hunt, Antlerless (Eastern Firearm) Standard 2212/2022 — Blue Creek — Antlerless Elk Hunt, Antlerless (Eastern Firearm) Standard

The country

Walla Walla Moses Lake Spokane Yakima Wenatchee
GMU 154 within Washington
149 157 162 163 166 169 Walla Walla
GMU 154 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 135,073 ac · 97%
  • State trust land 1,937 ac · 1%
  • Department of Defense 610 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 454 ac · 0%
  • National Forest 229 ac · 0%
  • Other public 186 ac · 0%
  • State land 126 ac · 0%
  • BLM 93 ac · 0%

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

Nearby areas

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 35
2024 34
2023 18
2022 22
2021 23

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 7 · 30% · 53 hunters, 13% success
  • Firearm 14 · 61% · 141 hunters, 10% success
  • Muzzleloader 2 · 9% · 7 hunters, 29% 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