Washington Elk — GMU 254

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Washington GMU 254 covers 209,030 acres and lies 40 miles north-east of Wenatchee and 67 miles north-east of Ellensburg. 15% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (8%) and BLM (5%). In 2025, hunters took 0 elk here.

Public land:15% Size:209,030 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 254 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

Wenatchee Moses Lake Yakima Richland Spokane
GMU 254 within Washington
248 262 269
GMU 254 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 177,527 ac · 85%
  • State trust land 16,196 ac · 8%
  • BLM 10,790 ac · 5%
  • State land 3,215 ac · 2%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 1,300 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 0
2022 0
2021 0

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

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

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