Washington Elk — GMU 247
Entiat
Washington GMU 247 covers 142,386 acres and lies 27 miles north of Wenatchee and 58 miles north of Ellensburg. 76% of it is public land, mostly national forest (60%) and state land (8%). In 2025, hunters took 2 elk here.
Your chance of drawing here
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 247 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
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest 85,004 ac · 60%
- Private 34,517 ac · 24%
- State land 11,776 ac · 8%
- BLM 5,891 ac · 4%
- State trust land 4,471 ac · 3%
- County or city land 686 ac · 0%
- Other public 35 ac · 0%
- National Wildlife Refuge 3 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 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 0 · 0% · 22 hunters, 0% success
- Muzzleloader 2 · 100% · 2 hunters, 100% 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)