Units / Washington / Elk area 6010
Elk hunt area — its own geography, not the GMU with the same number. Public land, access, and elk harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public land
24%
7,467 ac of 30,611 ac
Landlocked public
171 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
2%
of public · 128 ac
Plan it
Washington elk draw odds — 4 hunts here →
50 tags drawn on this elk area 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 GMU’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 areas
Boundaries from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 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.