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Unit research · California Zone D15

Zone D15 — California

22% public across 2,084,492 ac. Real backcountry here — 79% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 5,343 ac of public land has no public route in.

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22%

public land

79%

of public >1 mi from a road

5,343 ac

landlocked public

0.03

road miles per mi²

11,768 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 7%■ CNTY 4%■ REG 3%■ Other public 8%□ Private 78%
Unit area2,084,492 ac
Public land454,545 ac (22%)
Landlocked public5,343 ac (1.2%)
Walk-in access19,831 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)98 mi
Maintained trails11,768 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road360,892 ac (79% of public)
Road density0.03 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 136k ac · CNTY 82k ac · REG 69k 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 D1459% public · 56% remoteZone D1650% public · 88% remoteZone D1763% public · 100% remote

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