Washington Elk — GMU 248
Big Bend
Washington GMU 248 covers 328,942 acres and lies 57 miles north of Moses Lake and 87 miles north-east of Ellensburg. 26% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (15%) and state land (7%). In 2025, hunters took 0 elk here.
Your chance of drawing here
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 248 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
- Private 242,891 ac · 74%
- State trust land 49,263 ac · 15%
- State land 23,716 ac · 7%
- Bureau of Reclamation 6,819 ac · 2%
- BLM 4,335 ac · 1%
- Department of Defense 1,915 ac · 1%
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 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 0 · 4 hunters, 0% 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)