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Unit research · California Zone X9a

Zone X9a — California

96% public across 1,245,692 ac. Real backcountry here — 48% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 2,226 ac of public land has no public route in.

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96%

public land

48%

of public >1 mi from a road

2,226 ac

landlocked public

0.82

road miles per mi²

731 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 58%■ BLM 26%■ CITY 8%■ Other public 4%□ Private 4%
Unit area1,245,692 ac
Public land1,194,101 ac (96%)
Landlocked public2,226 ac (0.2%)
Walk-in access1,726 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,589 mi
Maintained trails731 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road567,730 ac (48% of public)
Road density0.82 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 728k ac · BLM 318k ac · CITY 98k 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 X891% public · 56% remoteZone X9b99% public · 61% remoteZone X9c91% public · 93% remote

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