Excellent Private Land Elk Hunts
Our Colorado Ranches
Our ranches are all located near Walden, Colorado. This is the North Park area of Colorado, about 165 miles northwest of Denver and 40 miles east of Steamboat Springs.
Black Elk Outfitters, LLC. (Colo.Lic.#1313) offers self-guided trespass fee hunts on private, Colorado Ranches.
Black Elk Outfitters has been serving hunters from all over the world for nearly 40 y years, with long term leases on some of the best hunting areas North Park has to offer. Our team works each year to manage and cultivate the area to provide a great opportunity to hunt elk. Don’t find yourself on public land, surrounded by orange vest and chasing fake bugles! We keep our hunt numbers low to allow for a private, quality experience.
With Colorado having the largest elk herd in the United States it’s not hard to understand why many of our hunters return year after year. It also explains why we book up so early each year. Most of our spots are booked year after year, with many hunters having been with us over 30 years.
Owned and operated by lifelong guide and outfitter Keegan McCarthy.
Plan Your Hunt
The same ranches have been secured for the 2025 season, Coyte and Indian/Creek with options to hunt the Trownsell. Trownsell will be by invitation only. All of our hunts are 7 days long except for and the 1st and 4th rifle which are 5-day seasons, rifle antelope which is a 3-day hunt. Please note that Black Elk Outfitters LLC offers neither guided nor outfitted hunts.
For 2025 the season structure will be the same as before. There will be 4 rifle seasons for elk as before, but the 1st and 4th seasons will be by drawing or on leftover licenses. The 2nd and 3rd seasons will be combined elk and deer seasons with bull elk being unlimited, deer by drawing. During the combined seasons bull elk licenses will be unlimited in the areas we hunt. All deer licenses for all methods of take are by drawing. Deer seasons are concurrent with the elk seasons, except for the Early Deer season, which is the last week in September. Deer hunting is not currently allowed during elk hunts except by discussion with outfitter.