Washington Elk — GMU 454
Issaquah
Washington GMU 454 covers 721,794 acres and lies 2 miles south-west of Bellevue. 10% of it is public land, mostly county or city land (5%) and state trust land (3%). In 2025, hunters took 106 elk here.
Your chance of drawing here
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 454 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 651,977 ac · 90%
- County or city land 35,048 ac · 5%
- State trust land 23,135 ac · 3%
- State land 10,964 ac · 2%
- Other public 511 ac · 0%
- BLM 83 ac · 0%
- Department of Defense 47 ac · 0%
- National Forest 26 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 | 106 |
| 2024 | 153 |
| 2023 | 114 |
| 2022 | 158 |
| 2021 | 161 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 22 · 23% · 171 hunters, 13% success
- Firearm 18 · 19% · 92 hunters, 20% success
- Muzzleloader 57 · 59% · 219 hunters, 26% 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)