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Unit 5A — Arizona

69% public across 443,037 ac. Real backcountry here — 38% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 31,665 ac of public land has no public route in.

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69%

public land

38%

of public >1 mi from a road

31,665 ac

landlocked public

0.64

road miles per mi²

59 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Land & access

■ USFS 40%■ SDOL 28%□ Private 31%
Unit area443,037 ac
Public land303,625 ac (69%)
Landlocked public31,665 ac (10.4%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)440 mi
Maintained trails59 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road116,485 ac (38% of public)
Road density0.64 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 179k ac · SDOL 124k ac
Elevation distribution, slope mix and timberline stats land with the terrain analytics pass — the DEM work is already in the pipeline.

Draw & harvest

Draw odds, harvest rates and season dates are next.

The state agencies publish them — locked in PDFs. The parsing pipeline is the next data milestone, and when it ships, this section fills in for every unit at once, free, with a link to the query that computed it.

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)

Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

More Arizona units

Unit 4B46% public · 98% remoteUnit 5B84% public · 21% remoteUnit 6A95% public · 13% remote

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