Elk Hunt Zone 1 · Elk hunt zone 1 · Pennsylvania

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

Elk hunt zone 1Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

28%

154,270 ac of 547,621 ac

Landlocked public

3,965 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

of public · 880 ac

Elk · 2023

3 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

Elk harvest · 2017–2023 · 4 → 3

Season breakdown · 2023

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	—	0	—

Which season is the value play here — same ground, different odds.

Plan it

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Pennsylvania elk draw odds →

OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →

Terrain — this boundary, not the WMU’s

Elevation830–2,440 ft

Median elevation1,850 ft

Median slope6°

Where the ground sits

830 ft2,440 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%

E 24%

S 25%

W 25%

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 hunt zones

Elk Hunt Zone 2 · Elk hunt zone 2 · 24% public Elk Hunt Zone 3 · Elk hunt zone 3 · 95% public Elk Hunt Zone 7 · Elk hunt zone 7 · 59% public Elk Hunt Zone 4 · Elk hunt zone 4 · 48% public

Boundaries from the Pennsylvania Game Commission 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.