Washington Elk — GMU 460
Snoqualmie
Washington GMU 460 covers 592,604 acres and lies 21 miles east of Sammamish. 64% of it is public land, mostly national forest (52%) and state trust land (5%). In 2025, hunters took 63 elk here.
Your chance of drawing here
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 460 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 305,920 ac · 52%
- Private 211,645 ac · 36%
- State trust land 29,839 ac · 5%
- State land 29,807 ac · 5%
- County or city land 14,451 ac · 2%
- Other public 695 ac · 0%
- BLM 245 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 | 63 |
| 2024 | 78 |
| 2023 | 78 |
| 2022 | 70 |
| 2021 | 66 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 27 · 50% · 130 hunters, 21% success
- Firearm 13 · 24% · 114 hunters, 11% success
- Muzzleloader 14 · 26% · 89 hunters, 16% 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)