The observability of polar motion from laser range data has been investigated, and the contributions from the dynamical and kinematical effects have been evaluated. Using 2-day arcs with Geos 3 laser data, simultaneous solutions for pole position components, xp and yp, and orbit elements have been obtained for a 2-week interval spanning August 27 to September 10, 1975, using three NASA Goddard Space Flight Center stations located at Washington, D.C. (Stalas), Bermuda, and Grand Turk. The results for yp from this limited data set differenced with the BIH linearly interpolated values yield a mean of 39 cm and a standard deviation of 1.07 m. Consideration of the variance associated with each estimate yields a mean of 20 cm and a standard deviation of 81 cm. The results for xp indicate that the mean value is in fair agreement with the BIH; however, the xp determination is weaker than the yp determination due to the distribution of laser sites (all three are between 77¿W and 65¿W) which results in greater sensitivity to the data distribution. In addition, the sensitivity of these results to various model parameters is discussed.