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Unit research · California Zone X8

Zone X8 — California

91% public across 332,827 ac. Real backcountry here — 56% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 887 ac of public land has no public route in.

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91%

public land

56%

of public >1 mi from a road

887 ac

landlocked public

0.46

road miles per mi²

397 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 82%■ BLM 6%■ SFW 2%■ Other public 1%□ Private 9%
Unit area332,827 ac
Public land301,262 ac (91%)
Landlocked public887 ac (0.3%)
Walk-in access5,503 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)237 mi
Maintained trails397 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road168,457 ac (56% of public)
Road density0.46 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 273k ac · BLM 19k 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 X7b65% public · 14% remoteZone X9a96% public · 48% remoteZone X9b99% public · 61% remote

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