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Unit research · California Zone D16

Zone D16 — California

50% public across 2,867,781 ac. Real backcountry here — 88% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 15,919 ac of public land has no public route in.

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50%

public land

88%

of public >1 mi from a road

15,919 ac

landlocked public

0.04

road miles per mi²

6,215 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ BLM 18%■ SPR 12%■ USFS 10%■ Other public 9%□ Private 50%
Unit area2,867,781 ac
Public land1,431,901 ac (50%)
Landlocked public15,919 ac (1.1%)
Walk-in access45,460 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)198 mi
Maintained trails6,215 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road1,264,241 ac (88% of public)
Road density0.04 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 530k ac · SPR 339k ac · USFS 291k 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 D1522% public · 79% remoteZone D1763% public · 100% remoteZone D1963% public · 89% remote

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