● Ranked from real Colorado data · 2025
Highest harvest-success Elk units in Colorado
Where Colorado elk hunters actually fill tags, ranked by the agency's own harvest statistics.
#1Unit 10 (Rifle)drawable nowDrawable at 0 pts65% public100% success→#2Unit 27 (Rifle)drawable nowDrawable at 0 pts55.3% public100% success→#3Unit 60 (Rifle)drawable nowDrawable at 0 pts82.3% public100% success→#4Unit 231 (Rifle)drawable nowDrawable at 0 pts64.1% public100% success→#5Unit 1 (Muzzleloader)drawable nowDrawable at 0 pts62.6% public100% success→#6Unit 2 (Muzzleloader)From 5 pts84.9% public100% success→#7Unit 10 (Muzzleloader)From 8 pts65% public100% success→#8Unit 500 (Rifle)drawable nowDrawable at 0 pts68.4% public87.5% success→#9Unit 2 (Rifle)From 1 pts84.9% public87.5% success→#10Unit 711 (Rifle)Draw varies61.9% public86.7% success→#11Unit 71 (Rifle)drawable nowDrawable at 0 pts85% public86.5% success→#12Unit 61 (Rifle)drawable nowDrawable at 0 pts84.8% public86.2% success→
How this list is ranked
Ranked by the best per-unit harvest success rate in the state agency's harvest reports, tie-broken by how drawable the tag is.
Data year: 2025. Each row links to its full page with every number cited to its agency source. A place missing a signal is never guessed — it simply can't rank.
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