Quick Facts:

• • Unit 65
    • Archery Elk – Over-the-counter licenses (either sex) – Will be by application for Non-resident starting 2025
    • 1st Rifle Elk – By application – typically draws with 1 point (either sex)
    • 2nd Rifle Elk – Over-the-counter (bull or cow)
  • Horseback Pack-in (2 hour ride)
  • Elevations range from 10,000 ft to 13,000 ft
  • Accommodates 2 to 4 hunters

  Merino Mountain is known for consistently producing quality bull elk. Typography is diverse and it includes lush creek bottoms, open avalanche shoots, high benches, dark timber, and above timberline alpine tundra. This camp offers some of the best elk hunting in over-the-counter unit 65. We first started hunting this area in 2014 and since then it has quickly become a top producing elk camp.