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Zone C3 — California

19% public across 840,011 ac. Real backcountry here — 27% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 3,196 ac of public land has no public route in.

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19%

public land

27%

of public >1 mi from a road

3,196 ac

landlocked public

0.27

road miles per mi²

172 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 16%■ BLM 1%■ SDNR 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 81%
Unit area840,011 ac
Public land158,969 ac (19%)
Landlocked public3,196 ac (2.0%)
Walk-in access1,520 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)359 mi
Maintained trails172 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road42,304 ac (27% of public)
Road density0.27 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 135k ac · BLM 9k ac · SDNR 9k 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 California units

Zone C250% public · 28% remoteZone C438% public · 37% remoteZone D341% public · 19% remote

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