Wapiti Ridge / Hunts
Guided Hunts

Five ways up the mountain.

Every hunt here is fully outfitted — camp, stock, meat care, and a guide who's hunted these drainages a quarter century. You bring the tag. We bring everything else and pack out heavy.

A hunter glassing a timbered basin from a high ridge at first light during archery season
01 — Archery Elk

Archery Elk

$6,800 · 6 days · fully guided

Six days in the dark timber during the September rut. We call bulls to the bow and hunt the north-facing benches where the elk hold all day. The hardest, best way there is to kill an elk — and the one our guides live for.

Season
Sep archery rut
Unit
33 · OTC
Ratio
2:1 hunter:guide
Difficulty
Hard
A bull elk bugling at dawn in a golden Colorado high-country meadow below snowy peaks
02 — Rifle Elk

Rifle Elk

$5,900 · 5 days

First, second, and third rifle season. A clean shot, big country, and a guide who knows where they bed and where they move when the weather turns. We glass hard at dawn and dusk, then close the distance on foot.

Season
1st / 2nd / 3rd rifle
Unit
33 & 551
Ratio
2:1 hunter:guide
Difficulty
Moderate
A heavy-antlered mule deer buck in golden high-country sagebrush at sunrise
03 — High Country

High-Country Mule Deer

$5,400 · 5 days

Heavy old bucks above timberline. This is glassing country — we pick the basins apart at first light, find a buck worth the climb, and spot-and-stalk into range. A limited-draw tag and a true high-alpine hunt.

Season
Oct rifle
Unit
76 · Limited draw
Style
Spot & stalk
Difficulty
Hard
Wild Colorado backcountry — timbered ridgelines and alpine basins under a dramatic mountain sky
04 — Combo

Elk + Deer Combo

$8,900 · 7 days

Two tags, one backcountry week. Hunt elk in the timber and mule deer up high out of the same wall-tent camp. The full mountain — more days, more country, and the best value we run for serious hunters.

Season
Oct overlap
Tags
Elk + mule deer
Ratio
2:1 hunter:guide
Difficulty
Hard
A canvas wall-tent hunting camp lit by lantern at dusk with horses picketed nearby
05 — Custom

Drop Camp

From $2,400 · unguided

Your hunt, your terms. We pack you and your gear miles past the trucks, set a wall-tent camp on good ground, and come back for the meat when you've got it down. You hunt it on your own. We handle the heavy work.

Style
Unguided
Units
33 · 76 · 551
Stock
Pack in & out
Booking
By request
Fully Outfitted

Everything but the tag.

Seasons & draws

Wall-Tent Camp & Hot Meals

Canvas tents, woodstoves, and three hot meals a day, packed in by horse and set on good ground.

Horses & Packing

Stock to get you miles past the trucks and into the units the trucks can't reach.

Meat Care & Hauling

We quarter, hang, and pack your animal out. Your meat gets handled right, every time.

Licensed Guides

CPW-licensed guides who've worked these drainages since before you drew your first tag.

Glassing Optics on Hand

Spotting scopes and tripods in camp for the high basins — glass all day, climb once.

Field Photos & Trophy Prep

Honest field photos and a clean cape for the taxidermist before we pack off the mountain.

Bull elk in high-country meadow at dawn
Limited tags

Tags are limited. Dates go fast.

Gunnison, Colorado · (970) 555-0148 · hunt@wapitiridge.co