Units / Pennsylvania / Elk hunt zone 10
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.
Public land
84%
135,443 ac of 160,698 ac
Landlocked public
46 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
2%
of public · 3,193 ac
Elk · 2023
12 harvested
no district-level hunter estimate published
Elk harvest · 2017–2023 · 11 → 12
| Season | Success | Harvest | Hunters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archery | — | 2 | — |
Which season is the value play here — same ground, different odds.
Plan it
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
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 hunt zones
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.