Washington Elk · GMU 371 Alkali

Washington GMU 371 covers 341,264 acres and lies 21 miles north-east of Yakima and 48 miles south of Wenatchee. 98% of it is public land, mostly military (96%) and county or city land (1%). Its most applied-for hunt, 2027/2024, put up 37 nonresident tags in the 2024 draw for 1,005 first-choice applicants.

No more draws here. The last one was 2024.

Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife held its 2026 elk draw without GMU 371. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Washington elk hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.

NR Tags, 2024
274

10 licenses

Applicants
3,280

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
—

not published

Public Land
98%

97% Other public

Size
533 mi²

341,264 acres

Yakima Ellensburg 371

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Best Bets at 0 Points

Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2024 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in GMU 371

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

The last draw held in GMU 371 was 2024. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.

2027/2024 4% —
2066/2024 10% —
2093/2024 4% —
2230/2024 10% —
2231/2024 10% —
2287/2024 28% —
2411/2024 · youth 9% —
2421/2024 · youth 58% —
2509/2024 · hunters 6% —
2612/2024 · hunters 3% —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2024 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2024 result: 2298, 2299, 2300, 2301, 2302, 2303, 2304, 2443, 2523, 2623, 2842, 2843, 2844, 2845, 2846, 2847, 2848.

Draw results: WDFW 2024 Elk individual hunts, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2024 nonresident fees): $608 ($608 to apply). Open Apr 20 – May 27, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Elk
2025 0
2024 94
2023 97
2022 114
2021 62
2025 by LicenseHuntersElkSuccess
General season — 0 —
General season · archery 5 0 0%
General season · firearm 2 0 0%

2025 split: archery 0, firearm 0

What Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Hunter counts not published for 2025. 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. Source: WDFW 2025 Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table.

The Ground

Department of Defense 326,547 ac 96%
Private 6,367 ac 2%
County or city land 3,536 ac 1%
State land 3,125 ac <1%
BLM 849 ac <1%
State trust land 606 ac <1%
Other public 231 ac <1%

Source: WDFW 2026 WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands'….

▸ Sources 5
  1. WDFW 2024 Elk individual hunts draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WDFW 2024 State Big Game Hunting Seasons and… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. WDFW 2025 Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. WDFW 2026 Hunt Planner 'UnitSpatial' polygon… boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WDFW 2026 WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands'… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2024 draw, the latest on file, computed from Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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