Units / California / Elk zone 17
Elk hunt area — its own geography, not the zone with the same number. Public land, access, and elk harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public land
33%
552,039 ac of 1,656,847 ac
Landlocked public
10,929 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
8%
of public · 44,983 ac
Walk-in access
40,162 ac
private land opened to hunting
Elk · 2022
100% success
5 taken by 5 hunters
Elk hunter success · 2008–2022 · 33% → 100%
Plan it
California elk draw odds — 5 hunts here →
28 tags drawn on this elk zone last season.
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing
North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.
USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →
Nearby elk elk zones
Boundaries from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife elk hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.