Check out these 7 Tips for Hunting Elk on Public Land in Colorado. Public land has its challenges; these tips will help you produce a successful hunt on these accessible lands.
Keeping your body in shape in the off-season is important to get a good start. Plenty of hunters assume they can get back into it, and they would be wrong.
This combination of increased elk movement and decreasing pressure means you are more likely to come across one without surging deep into the backcountry.
Even if you are not taking a fancy hunting trip to a private ranch you can absorb the experience. Public land may be more crowded, but it is no less beautiful.