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Zone D5 — California

31% public across 3,081,910 ac. Real backcountry here — 38% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 17,744 ac of public land has no public route in.

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31%

public land

38%

of public >1 mi from a road

17,744 ac

landlocked public

0.46

road miles per mi²

2,729 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 25%■ BLM 2%■ SPR 1%■ Other public 2%□ Private 69%
Unit area3,081,910 ac
Public land952,863 ac (31%)
Landlocked public17,744 ac (1.9%)
Walk-in access1,589 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,206 mi
Maintained trails2,729 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road360,121 ac (38% of public)
Road density0.46 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 780k ac · BLM 67k ac · SPR 32k 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 D428% public · 37% remoteZone D655% public · 64% remoteZone D757% public · 52% remote

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