Elk unit E1W · North Dakota

Elk hunt area — its own geography, not the unit with the same number. Public land, access, and elk harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Elk unit E1WFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

54,446 ac of 1,523,879 ac

Landlocked public

4,159 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

of public · 267 ac

Plan it

See it on the map →

North Dakota elk draw odds — 3 hunts here →

196 tags drawn on this elk unit 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 unit’s

Elevation1,460–2,510 ft

Median elevation1,610 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

1,460 ft2,510 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 17%

E 26%

S 29%

W 29%

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 units

Elk unit E1E · 2% public Elk unit E5 · 5% public Elk unit E2 · 24% public Elk unit E6 · 8% public

Boundaries from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department elk hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.