Oregon Elk Deer (Buck) Deer (Antlerless)

Unit 19 (McKenzie)

Oregon Hunting Guide — Elk, Deer (Buck), Deer (Antlerless)

McKenzie runs from the Willamette Valley edge near Blue River and Lowell up to the Cascade crest. Its hunts are mostly antlerless and private-lands tags, and the 2020-2023 burns are still recovering.

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Elk Hunting in Unit 19

McKenzie runs from the Willamette Valley edge near Blue River and Lowell up to the Cascade crest. Its hunts are mostly antlerless and private-lands tags, and the 2020-2023 burns are still recovering.

Where to Find Elk in the McKenzie Unit: burn edges, clearcuts and the timber-farm line

Burns that are still healing

The McKenzie unit climbs from about 328 ft in the foothills to The Husband at 7484 ft, with Fuji Mountain, Mount Ray, The Wife and Irish Mountain along the crest. ODFW says many lands that burned in the 2020-2023 fires still need more time before they benefit big game, and access is restricted in some areas. Elk can be found around the edges of the burns and near thinning operations or other openings created by the Forest Service. Check with the land manager before hunting any burned ground.

Foothill clearcuts and farm edges

At lower elevations in the Cascade foothills, ODFW suggests looking in two- to eight-year-old clearcuts. Elk are most plentiful at the timber and agricultural interface. Habitat quality matters: prospects are fair to good where it's strong and poor where it isn't. Blue River, Lowell and Marcola are the closest towns, and OR 58 opens up the foothills. Dolly Varden, Broken Bowl and Big Pool campgrounds are the named camps. OR 242, US 20 and the forest roads NF 5883 and NF 5897 reach the higher ground. Check closure and fire notices for the area before you drive in.

The ground ODFW draws for this hunt

The McKenzie Unit, WMU 19, covers about 2,642 square miles measured on ODFW's polygon, and ODFW rates it 60% public land. Named features inside the line fall in Lane County, Linn County and Deschutes County. Elevation runs from about 328 to 7,484 feet. The highest named points are The Husband (7,484 ft), Fuji Mountain (7,133 ft) and Mount Ray (7,011 ft). ODFW's line is the legal one, so check it against a current land-ownership map, and get permission before you cross private ground or a locked gate inside it.

Unit 19 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

799–5,642 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 2,647 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
2,628.5 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

1,111 tanks
18 springs
1,323 stream segments
142 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: The Husband (7,484 ft), Fuji Mountain (7,133 ft), Mount Ray (7,011 ft), The Wife (7,010 ft)

Holding ground: Lane Plateau (6,338 ft), Chief Joseph Island (6,206 ft), Pothole Meadow (6,205 ft), Warm Springs, Cottonwood Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Elk in the McKenzie Unit: antlerless tags, closed roads and private-lands rules

Know what your tag covers

The West McKenzie hunt is a winter antlerless hunt, and the youth hunt runs long in the fall for antlerless elk. A separate Oakridge Private hunt is shotgun or muzzleloader only and applies to private lands in the named townships. Pengra and Oakridge private-lands hunts are excluded from the unit's public ground. Read the tag description closely so you hunt the right land.

Walk away from the motors

Hiking into areas closed to motor vehicles increases your odds of finding elk, ODFW says. Scout early, because the elk herd in the South Santiam country is meeting management objectives but numbers are down from historic highs, and animals are there for the hunter who'll put in time. Glass clearcut edges at dawn and dusk, move slowly through thinned stands and watch for fresh tracks along the timber edge. This steep west-side ground means a heavy pack-out, so quarter and carry in loads.

ODFW's 2026 elk hunts on this ground

Seasons, bag limits and tags come from ODFW's 2026 regulations. Check the current book before you apply or go, because these change every year.

219A W McKenzie, Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, 2027: 38 tags, one antlerless elk.
219T McKenzie Unit Youth, Aug. 15 - Dec. 31: 20 tags, one antlerless elk.
200M Cascades Muzzleloader: see ODFW's table in the 2026 regulations for the season and tag count.
219C Oakridge Private (Shotgun/Muzzleloader Only): see ODFW's table in the 2026 regulations for the season and tag count.

The 2025 harvest in ODFW's numbers

ODFW's 2025 statistics for this WMU, covering elk hunters.

Mckenzie: 1,037 hunters, 106 animals, 10% success over 4,163 hunter days.

Roads in and the nearest towns

The longest named roads through this ground are OR 58, US 20, OR 242 and NF 5883. The nearest towns are Blue River (5 mi), Lowell (23 mi) and Marcola (23 mi), measured from the centre of the unit.

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Named routes and what they need

OR 58 — 29 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 20 — 24.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
OR 242 — 15.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
NF 5883 — 8.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NF 5897 — 6.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NF 2672 — 4.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Blue River — 5 mi · no services listed
Lowell — 22.5 mi · groceries
Marcola — 22.6 mi · no services listed
Dexter — 24.2 mi · groceries
Oakridge — 25.1 mi · fuel, lodging

Developed camps

Dolly Varden Campground
Clark Creek Organization Camp · reservable
Broken Bowl Campground
Big Pool Campground
Kiahanie Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan48° / 37° · 11.6" precip
Aug87° / 55° · 0.7" precip
Sep80° / 51° · 2" precip
Oct66° / 45° · 5.9" precip
Nov53° / 40° · 10.6" precip
Dec46° / 36° · 11.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Oregon rules that decide your day

Summarised from ODFW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Oregon has no general off-road retrieval allowance; several travel-management areas close roads during hunting season.

Tagging

Validate the tag and attach it to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting within range of an occupied dwelling without permission.

Elk: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

Unit 19: 106 of 1,037 hunters, 10%. Figures are ODFW's own 2025 harvest statistics.

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — Controlled bull/buck only (resident)	50	257	19.5%	8
Rifle — Controlled bull/buck only (resident)	11	13	76.9%	4
Rifle — Controlled bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	1	100.0%	4
Rifle — Controlled bull/buck only (resident)	22	13	100.0%	1
Rifle — Controlled bull/buck only (nonresident)	1	1	100.0%	2
Rifle — Controlled bull/buck only (resident)	165	37	100.0%	3
Rifle — Controlled either sex (resident)	20	55	36.4%	4
Rifle — Controlled either sex (nonresident)	1	1	0.0%	4

Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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From ODFW's 2026 regulations, residents and nonresidents together: 2026 tags against 2025 first-choice applicants.

219A W McKenzie: 38 tags for 2026; 257 first-choice applicants in 2025.
219T McKenzie Unit Youth: 20 tags for 2026; 90 first-choice applicants in 2025.

ODFW sets a point cut-off per hunt each year; its point summary reports carry it.

Deer (Buck) Hunting in Unit 19

McKenzie is a Lane, Linn and Deschutes County Cascade unit from Lebanon east to the Pacific Crest Trail, running along US 20 and Highway 58. ODFW says to scout burn edges, young clearcuts and areas closed to vehicles.

Where to Find Buck Deer in the McKenzie Unit: foothill clearcuts and the edges of old burns

Young cuts in the foothills

ODFW's forecast says early brush and forest conditions provide some of the best deer and elk forage. On private timberland, it's best in clearcuts beginning a couple of years after harvest. At lower elevations in the Cascade foothills, it points hunters to two- to eight-year-old clearcuts. Start there, near Lebanon and Blue River, then work upslope toward the burn edges and thinned stands on public ground.

Burns, closures and the map

The forecast also warns that many lands burned in the 2020 to 2023 fires need more time to recover, and that some areas still have restricted access. Contact the land manager before you hunt in any burned area. The boundary runs from Lebanon east on US 20 to the Pacific Crest Trail, south to Highway 58, northwest to I-5 and back on Highway 34. The Husband tops out at 7,484 feet, with Fuji Mountain, Mount Ray, The Wife and Irish Mountain nearby. Dolly Varden, Broken Bowl and Big Pool are named campgrounds. Check the map for gated roads and walk them, since deer in the foothills use quiet edges that trucks don't reach. Look for tracks in the dust on the road itself.

The ground ODFW draws for this hunt

Unit 19 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

799–5,642 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 2,647 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
2,628.5 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

1,111 tanks
18 springs
1,323 stream segments
142 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: The Husband (7,484 ft), Fuji Mountain (7,133 ft), Mount Ray (7,011 ft), The Wife (7,010 ft)

Holding ground: Lane Plateau (6,338 ft), Chief Joseph Island (6,206 ft), Pothole Meadow (6,205 ft), Warm Springs, Cottonwood Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

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How to Hunt Buck Deer in the McKenzie Unit: scout hard, then hike past the road

Scouting pays here

ODFW says hunters who know about habitat, scout and then hunt hard will have the best chance. Prospects are fair to good in places with high-quality habitat and poor in lower quality ground. That means a map study of cuts and thinned stands first, then boots on the ground. Look for fresh tracks, droppings and trails leading into the brush, and set up where you can see a lot of edge.

Away from the vehicles

The forecast says hiking into areas closed to motor vehicles increases your odds. Gated roads on the McKenzie side are an obvious start. The McKenzie Unit Muzzleloader hunt favours a quiet approach, so move slowly and stop often. Newly reopened burn areas may not draw big game for two or three years, ODFW says, so don't count on fresh access to mean fresh deer. Pack out by headlamp if you stay late, and carry a map and a spare battery.

ODFW's 2026 buck deer hunts on this ground

Seasons, bag limits and tags come from ODFW's 2026 regulations. Check the current book before you apply or go, because these change every year.

119M McKenzie Unit Muzzleloader, Nov. 14 - Nov. 25: 165 tags, one deer.
119A W High Cascade: see ODFW's table in the 2026 regulations for the season and tag count.

The 2025 harvest in ODFW's numbers

ODFW's 2025 statistics for this WMU, covering all deer hunters, every season and tag type.

Mckenzie: 9,151 hunters, 3,069 animals, 34% success over 64,533 hunter days.

Roads in and the nearest towns

The longest named roads through this ground are OR 58, US 20, OR 242 and NF 5883. The nearest towns are Blue River (5 mi), Lowell (23 mi) and Marcola (23 mi), measured from the centre of the unit.

Getting in and staying out: unit 19

Named routes and what they need

OR 58 — 29 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 20 — 24.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
OR 242 — 15.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
NF 5883 — 8.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NF 5897 — 6.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NF 2672 — 4.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Blue River — 5 mi · no services listed
Lowell — 22.5 mi · groceries
Marcola — 22.6 mi · no services listed
Dexter — 24.2 mi · groceries
Oakridge — 25.1 mi · fuel, lodging

Developed camps

Dolly Varden Campground
Clark Creek Organization Camp · reservable
Broken Bowl Campground
Big Pool Campground
Kiahanie Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan48° / 37° · 11.6" precip
Aug87° / 55° · 0.7" precip
Sep80° / 51° · 2" precip
Oct66° / 45° · 5.9" precip
Nov53° / 40° · 10.6" precip
Dec46° / 36° · 11.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Oregon rules that decide your day

Summarised from ODFW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Oregon has no general off-road retrieval allowance; several travel-management areas close roads during hunting season.

Tagging

Validate the tag and attach it to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting within range of an occupied dwelling without permission.

Deer (Buck): where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Deer (Buck) Success Rates

Unit 19: 3,069 of 9,151 hunters, 34%. Figures are ODFW's own 2025 harvest statistics.

Deer (Buck) Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Archery — Controlled buck only (resident)	3300	1,294	100.0%	15
Archery — Controlled buck only (nonresident)	165	17	100.0%	15
Muzzleloader — Controlled buck only (resident)	385	539	69.6%	5
Muzzleloader — Controlled buck only (nonresident)	19	11	90.9%	5

Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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From ODFW's 2026 regulations, residents and nonresidents together: 2026 tags against 2025 first-choice applicants.

119M McKenzie Unit Muzzleloader: 165 tags for 2026; 550 first-choice applicants in 2025.

ODFW sets a point cut-off per hunt each year; its point summary reports carry it.

Deer (Antlerless) Hunting in Unit 19

The McKenzie Unit runs from Lebanon on the valley edge up US 20 and OR 58 to the Pacific Crest Trail. Antlerless deer here follow clearcuts, thinned stands and the margins of recent burns, and public acreage is thin on the lower end.

Where to Find Antlerless Deer in the McKenzie Unit: foothill clearcuts and the edges of the burns

Foothill clearcuts above Lebanon

The unit starts at Lebanon and climbs east along US 20 and OR 58 toward the Pacific Crest Trail. The low end is where ODFW's forecast gives its plainest advice: in the Cascade foothills, look for deer in clearcuts that have had a few seasons of regrowth. Fresh brush is forage, and forage is what holds animals.

One hunt description for this unit excludes Willamette National Forest lands entirely. That leaves very little public ground, so read the boundary before you commit and ask permission on private timber and farm ground.

Burn margins and thinned stands near Blue River

Higher up, the picture changes. ODFW says lands burned in recent fires still need time to recover, and big game may not move into newly reopened ground for a couple of years. Don't expect the middle of a burn to be productive yet.

Look instead at the edges, and at thinned stands where enough trees came out to let understory grow. The forecast points to both as the best early forage on public land. Roads like NF 5883 and NF 5897 give you ways in, but check closures with the land manager first.

The ground ODFW draws for this hunt

Unit 19 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

799–5,642 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 2,647 ft ; peaks can run higher. That spread means you can hunt two seasons in one day — plan clothing for both ends.
2,628.5 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
BLM — 15%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 17%

Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

1,111 tanks
18 springs
1,323 stream segments
142 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: The Husband (7,484 ft), Fuji Mountain (7,133 ft), Mount Ray (7,011 ft), The Wife (7,010 ft)

Holding ground: Lane Plateau (6,338 ft), Chief Joseph Island (6,206 ft), Pothole Meadow (6,205 ft), Warm Springs, Cottonwood Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

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How to Hunt Antlerless Deer in the McKenzie Unit: scout the forage, then walk away from the road

Scout before the tag matters

ODFW's forecast for the district is blunt. Populations track habitat, and hunters who scout and then hunt hard have the best chance. Prospects run fair to good where habitat is good and poor where it isn't.

That's a reason to spend a weekend before the season walking cuts and burn edges, looking for droppings, trails and bedding cover tight against feed. Don't skip it. An antlerless tag in a unit like this rewards the hunter who already knows where the deer are feeding.

Use the closed roads and the travel management area

The forecast notes that hiking into areas closed to motor vehicles improves your odds on both deer and elk. Most hunters stop where the gate is, so that's where the pressure ends too.

The East Lane Travel Management Area sits in the McKenzie and Indigo units. ODFW says its maps changed this year and that roads open to motor vehicles are different in most blocks. Pick up the new map at the kiosk before you drive anywhere. Once you've got an animal down on steep ground, plan the pack-out before you shoot, not after.

ODFW's 2026 antlerless deer hunts on this ground

Seasons, bag limits and tags come from ODFW's 2026 regulations. Check the current book before you apply or go, because these change every year.

619 W McKenzie, Oct. 3 - Nov. 6: 303 tags, one antlerless deer.
619T McKenzie Unit Youth, Nov. 14 - Nov. 25: 109 tags, one deer.

The 2025 harvest in ODFW's numbers

ODFW's 2025 statistics for this WMU, covering all deer hunters, every season and tag type.

Mckenzie: 9,151 hunters, 3,069 animals, 34% success over 64,533 hunter days.

Roads in and the nearest towns

The longest named roads through this ground are OR 58, US 20, OR 242 and NF 5883. The nearest towns are Blue River (5 mi), Lowell (23 mi) and Marcola (23 mi), measured from the centre of the unit.

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Named routes and what they need

OR 58 — 29 mi · Paved (all rigs)
US 20 — 24.7 mi · Paved (all rigs)
OR 242 — 15.3 mi · Paved (all rigs)
NF 5883 — 8.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NF 5897 — 6.1 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)
NF 2672 — 4.6 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Blue River — 5 mi · no services listed
Lowell — 22.5 mi · groceries
Marcola — 22.6 mi · no services listed
Dexter — 24.2 mi · groceries
Oakridge — 25.1 mi · fuel, lodging

Developed camps

Dolly Varden Campground
Clark Creek Organization Camp · reservable
Broken Bowl Campground
Big Pool Campground
Kiahanie Campground

Season weather and signal

Jan48° / 37° · 11.6" precip
Aug87° / 55° · 0.7" precip
Sep80° / 51° · 2" precip
Oct66° / 45° · 5.9" precip
Nov53° / 40° · 10.6" precip
Dec46° / 36° · 11.6" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Oregon rules that decide your day

Summarised from ODFW regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Oregon has no general off-road retrieval allowance; several travel-management areas close roads during hunting season.

Tagging

Validate the tag and attach it to the carcass before leaving the kill site.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting within range of an occupied dwelling without permission.

Deer (Antlerless): where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Deer (Antlerless) Success Rates

Unit 19: 3,069 of 9,151 hunters, 34%. Figures are ODFW's own 2025 harvest statistics.

Deer (Antlerless) Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts Req
Rifle — Controlled antlerless (resident)	605	2,064	29.2%	9
Rifle — Controlled antlerless (nonresident)	30	5	60.0%	9
Rifle — Controlled antlerless (resident)	109	452	23.7%	7
Rifle — Controlled antlerless (nonresident)	5	8	25.0%	7

Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.

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From ODFW's 2026 regulations, residents and nonresidents together: 2026 tags against 2025 first-choice applicants.

619 W McKenzie: 303 tags for 2026; 1,145 first-choice applicants in 2025.
619T McKenzie Unit Youth: 109 tags for 2026; 96 first-choice applicants in 2025.

ODFW sets a point cut-off per hunt each year; its point summary reports carry it.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Camp Sites

Developed campgrounds: Dolly Varden Campground, Clark Creek Organization Camp, Broken Bowl Campground, Big Pool Campground.

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Road Conditions

OR 58, US 20 and OR 242 are the longest named roads.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features run from 328 to 7,484 ft. More than 4,000 feet of relief, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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Weather

Season normals: Sep 80/51°F, 2 in.; Oct 66/45°F, 5.9 in.; Nov 53/40°F, 10.6 in.; Dec 46/36°F, 11.6 in..

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Nearest Town

Blue River (5 mi), Lowell (23 mi), Marcola (23 mi)

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Permit Notes

Check ODFW's 2026 regulations for hunt boundaries, seasons and tag rules before you go.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What ground does this Oregon elk page cover?

The McKenzie Unit, WMU 19, covers about 2,642 square miles measured on ODFW's polygon, and ODFW rates it 60% public land.

What's the biggest 2026 elk hunt here?

Hunt 219A W McKenzie: Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, 2027, 38 tags, one antlerless elk, per ODFW's 2026 regulations.

What was hunter success for elk here in 2025?

ODFW's 2025 statistics for Unit 19: 1,037 hunters took 106 animals, 10% success.

What ground does this Oregon buck deer page cover?

The McKenzie Unit, WMU 19, covers about 2,642 square miles measured on ODFW's polygon, and ODFW rates it 60% public land.

What's the biggest 2026 buck deer hunt here?

Hunt 119M McKenzie Unit Muzzleloader: Nov. 14 - Nov. 25, 165 tags, one deer, per ODFW's 2026 regulations.

What was hunter success for buck deer here in 2025?

ODFW's 2025 statistics for Unit 19: 9,151 hunters took 3,069 animals, 34% success.

What ground does this Oregon antlerless deer page cover?

The McKenzie Unit, WMU 19, covers about 2,642 square miles measured on ODFW's polygon, and ODFW rates it 60% public land.

What's the biggest 2026 antlerless deer hunt here?

Hunt 619 W McKenzie: Oct. 3 - Nov. 6, 303 tags, one antlerless deer, per ODFW's 2026 regulations.

What was hunter success for antlerless deer here in 2025?

ODFW's 2025 statistics for Unit 19: 9,151 hunters took 3,069 animals, 34% success.

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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-30.

2026 Oregon Big Game Hunting Regulations — Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife · supports: Hunt areas and boundary descriptions, Seasons, bag limits and 2026 tags · accessed 2026-10-30
Big Game hunting forecast, 2026/27 — Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife · supports: Field reports by hunt area and WMU · accessed 2026-10-30
Big game hunting harvest statistics, 2025 — Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife · supports: Hunters, harvest and success · accessed 2026-10-30
Wildlife Management Units (ArcGIS) — Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife · supports: 2,642 square miles · accessed 2026-10-30
Geographic Names Information System — named features inside the boundary — U.S. Geological Survey · supports: The Husband 7,484 ft, Fuji Mountain 7,133 ft · accessed 2026-10-30