Colorado elk draw results, 2026: points to draw every hunt code

In Colorado's 2026 primary elk draw, CPW offered 130,710 licenses in 1,039 hunt codes and issued 104,435 of them. CPW's report puts first-choice success at 38% for resident adults and 21% for nonresident adults. Residents could draw 758 of the codes with no preference points, and 49 took 10 points or more.

This page copies, for every limited elk hunt code, the "drawn out at" line from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's Draw Recap reports for 2024, 2025 and 2026: the preference point level of the last license the primary draw gave residents and nonresidents. It is the result of each year's draw, not a forecast. How Colorado's preference points work.

How many preference points did Colorado elk licenses take in 2026?

Of the 1,039 elk hunt codes in CPW's 2026 primary draw, residents could draw 758 with no points, 225 took 1 to 9 points and 49 took 10 or more.

Adult applicants in the primary draw. "No license to that group" covers codes where CPW drew no one from that group or no one applied. Source: Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 2026 Primary ELK Post Draw Report.

Which elk hunt codes took the most points in 2026?

Sorted by the resident "drawn out at" level in CPW's 2026 report, highest first.

Did Colorado elk licenses take more points in 2026 than in 2024?

Of the 453 elk hunt codes that drew residents on preference points in both 2024 and 2026, 133 took more points in 2026, 244 took the same and 76 took fewer (CPW Draw Recap reports).

The biggest rises, sorted by the change in resident points from 2024 to 2026:

Which elk licenses can residents draw with no points?

758 elk hunt codes gave a license to every resident first-choice applicant, or drew out at 0 points, in 2026. They are listed with their leftovers on Colorado elk licenses with 0 points.

Which Colorado elk hunt codes had the highest hunter success in 2025?

Among the 280 elk hunt codes with at least 100 hunters and enough survey replies in CPW's 2025 harvest survey, EM061O1R had the highest success, 70.6% from 126 hunters. Across all 956 codes CPW printed, 161,580 hunters took 32,120 elk. Sorted by CPW's printed 2025 success rate, highest first, among codes with at least 100 hunters that CPW did not mark as having few survey replies. 2025 is the first year CPW reports success by hunt code; before, it reported by unit.

Survey estimates from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's 2025 Colorado Elk Harvest Estimates. Every code's 2025 success is also in the last column of the tables below.

What did every elk hunt code take, 2024 to 2026?

Each cell is CPW's "drawn out at" figure for that year: a number is preference points; "2nd+ choice" means every first-choice applicant drew; "leftover" means licenses were left after the draw; "none drawn" means no license went to that group. A blank year means the code was not in that year's draw. Codes with a link have their own page with dates, units and the draw by point level.

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