Units / California / Zone C4

Unit research · California Zone C4

Zone C4 — California

38% public across 2,472,890 ac. Real backcountry here — 37% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 15,951 ac of public land has no public route in.

Open in mapDownload GPXFree — no account
[ unit preview — pipeline-rendered map lands here ]Zone C4
38%

public land

37%

of public >1 mi from a road

15,951 ac

landlocked public

0.50

road miles per mi²

837 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 27%■ NPS 4%■ SFW 2%■ Other public 4%□ Private 62%
Unit area2,472,890 ac
Public land940,230 ac (38%)
Landlocked public15,951 ac (1.7%)
Walk-in access55,166 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,941 mi
Maintained trails837 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road345,809 ac (37% of public)
Road density0.50 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 668k ac · NPS 107k ac · SFW 56k 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 C319% public · 27% remoteZone D341% public · 19% remoteZone D428% public · 37% remote

Ready to scout it?

Everything on this page, live on the map — ownership, boundaries, roads, and your own waypoints.

Open Zone C4 in the map