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New Mexico Elk Unit 15

Sightings, hotspots, and hunt insights for New Mexico Game Management Unit 15.

Unit 15 is the Jemez Mountains complex, a collapsed supervolcanic landscape where broad grassy calderas and resurgent domes get sliced apart by sheer-walled canyons of welded tuff, so elk country that looks gentle from a ridgetop punishes you the moment you drop into the drainages. Elevations run from roughly 6,800 feet on the mesa fringes past 11,500 on Chicoma Mountain, with perennial water in the East Fork Jemez, San Antonio, and Rio Cebolla, Gambel oak acorns driving mid-elevation browse, and tricky Pueblo and Valles Caldera boundaries throughout. The pack covers Unit Overview and Topography, Vegetation and Hydrology, Seasonal Expectations, Logistics and Access, plus a one-page Essential Recon summary. Study the unit on our interactive map, then export the points you choose to onX or your favorite hunting map.
1066
Total Elk Spotted
78
Hotspots Identified
Active
Status · Data Available
New Mexico Elk Unit 15 boundary map
Unit 15 boundary within New Mexico · orange area is covered by this Data Pack

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How this data was collected

Data Hunt Guide aggregates publicly available sighting reports from across the web (social media, hunting forums, harvest reports, and trail-camera shares) and uses a proprietary algorithm to identify high-activity zones (hotspots) within each unit. Our team verifies coordinates manually before publication.