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Units / Pennsylvania / Elk hunt zone 13

Elk Hunt Zone 13 · Elk hunt zone 13 · 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 13Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

60%

107,510 ac of 178,480 ac

Landlocked public

823 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

1%

of public · 830 ac

Elk · 2023

9 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

Elk harvest · 2017–2023 · 7 → 9

Season breakdown · 2023
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery—3—

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

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Terrain — this boundary, not the WMU’s

Elevation600–2,370 ft
Median elevation1,620 ft
Median slope6°

Where the ground sits

600 ft2,370 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%
E 25%
S 24%
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 12 · Elk hunt zone 12 · 41% publicElk Hunt Zone 9 · Elk hunt zone 9 · 32% publicElk Hunt Zone 10 · Elk hunt zone 10 · 84% publicElk Hunt Zone 14 · Elk hunt zone 14 · 86% 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.