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RE: colorado elk hunting places??
 

In short, ........... no.

Something you will have to do for yourself. We can only give pointers.

" tell me how to find elk in all that country."

This one is a little more doable. Here are a few pointers: Call the game warden for the area and tell him the general/specific areas you have been hunting. Tell him you area willing to get a little farther from the truck and would like some general areas to explore. Then comes map time. Get some topo quads of the area and study them for terrain, cover, water, and roads. Find some areas that have all the above that are over 1 mile from a road. Then call the game warden back and ask him about specific creek drainages/ mountains, etc. He is more likely to give you really good info when you ask him about specific areas.

Then buy you a backpack (or plan on renting a horse) for packing an elk out and begin getting in shape right now. I mean yesterday! The better shape you are in the better your chances because you can keep walking until you find an elk. Every year people get lucky and kill an elk from a road, but most are killed away from the crowds.

Good luck.

RE: colorado elk hunting places??
 

TX gave you good starting points.

Spend the $100 and buy the CO big game disks. You can get all the harvest data back more than a decade. You can decide on what you are looking for, and get reports on hunter success, # of licenses, points required to draw, undersubscribed units etc. After you decide on the right unit for your goals, then you can download maps to 1:25,000 and find very specific areas to consider. After a few weeks of that, then you can call game wardens. Then you can scout for yourself. Most people won' t go to half that trouble, which is why Colorado' s herd of 330,000 elk is safe and continues to grow, despite the state issuing 146,000 draw tags this year.

RE: colorado elk hunting places??
 

Spur
Send me an email, I' m quite familiar with the area and might be able to give you a few starting points.

ColoradoElk
Small world, I' m from Longmont also. Where abouts you live?

RE: colorado elk hunting places??
 

I hunt in the Yampa district also. Are you gun hunting or bow hunting? I hunt near Lynx Pass in unit 15. We are bowhunting the first week of season.

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Our group hunts the Yampa area every year and we do well. Over half of us get our bull each year. We have been hunting private ground and only pay a lease fee no guides. If your looking for a place check them out .