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Unit research · California Zone D8

Zone D8 — California

47% public across 3,708,104 ac. Real backcountry here — 64% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 13,459 ac of public land has no public route in.

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47%

public land

64%

of public >1 mi from a road

13,459 ac

landlocked public

0.26

road miles per mi²

2,435 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 25%■ NPS 20%■ BLM 2%■ Other public 1%□ Private 53%
Unit area3,708,104 ac
Public land1,760,305 ac (47%)
Landlocked public13,459 ac (0.8%)
Walk-in access3,948 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,507 mi
Maintained trails2,435 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road1,134,550 ac (64% of public)
Road density0.26 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 915k ac · NPS 749k ac · BLM 62k 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 D757% public · 52% remoteZone D959% public · 76% remoteZone D103% public · 92% remote

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