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GMU 17 — Colorado

63% public across 180,269 ac. Road access is easy — only 9% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 1,703 ac of public land has no public route in.

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63%

public land

9%

of public >1 mi from a road

1,703 ac

landlocked public

2.12

road miles per mi²

213 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 36%■ BLM 19%■ FWS 6%■ Other public 2%□ Private 37%
Unit area180,269 ac
Public land113,491 ac (63%)
Landlocked public1,703 ac (1.5%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)598 mi
Maintained trails213 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road10,467 ac (9% of public)
Road density2.12 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 65k ac · BLM 34k ac · FWS 10k 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 Colorado units

GMU 1652% public · 21% remoteGMU 1888% public · 40% remoteGMU 1969% public · 28% remote

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