Units / North Dakota / Elk unit E3
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.
Public hunting land
27%
566,535 ac of 2,088,761 ac
Landlocked public
17,426 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
2%
of public · 8,836 ac
Plan it
North Dakota elk draw odds — 3 hunts here →
392 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
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 units
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.