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Unit research · California Zone X3b

Zone X3b — California

63% public across 987,590 ac. Real backcountry here — 99% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 3,067 ac of public land has no public route in.

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63%

public land

99%

of public >1 mi from a road

3,067 ac

landlocked public

0.00

road miles per mi²

117 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 34%■ BLM 27%■ SFW 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 37%
Unit area987,590 ac
Public land622,833 ac (63%)
Landlocked public3,067 ac (0.5%)
Walk-in access6,632 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)-0 mi
Maintained trails117 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road619,286 ac (99% of public)
Road density0.00 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 334k ac · BLM 270k ac · SFW 7k 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 X3a53% public · 96% remoteZone X462% public · 21% remoteZone X5a74% public · 100% remote

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