Units / California / Zone D17

Unit research · California Zone D17

Zone D17 — California

63% public across 12,515,430 ac. Real backcountry here — 100% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 140,633 ac of public land has no public route in.

Open in mapDownload GPXFree — no account
[ unit preview — pipeline-rendered map lands here ]Zone D17
63%

public land

100%

of public >1 mi from a road

140,633 ac

landlocked public

0.00

road miles per mi²

2,329 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ BLM 46%■ NPS 14%■ SDOL 2%■ Other public 1%□ Private 37%
Unit area12,515,430 ac
Public land7,870,929 ac (63%)
Landlocked public140,633 ac (1.8%)
Walk-in access168,463 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)-0 mi
Maintained trails2,329 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road7,843,945 ac (100% of public)
Road density0.00 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 5801k ac · NPS 1761k ac · SDOL 219k 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 D1650% public · 88% remoteZone D1963% public · 89% remoteZone X163% public · 49% remote

Ready to scout it?

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

Open Zone D17 in the map