Elk hunt zone 3 · 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 3Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

95%

24,664 ac of 25,877 ac

Landlocked public

0 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

of public · 158 ac

Elk · 2023

8 harvested

no district-level hunter estimate published

Elk harvest · 2017–2023 · 2 → 8

Season breakdown · 2023

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	—	2	—

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

Elevation890–2,330 ft

Median elevation1,700 ft

Median slope12°

Where the ground sits

890 ft2,330 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%

E 28%

S 27%

W 21%

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 1 · 32% public Elk hunt zone 2 · 24% public Elk hunt zone 4 · 48% public Elk hunt zone 8 · 78% 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.