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GMU 40 — Colorado

62% public across 475,151 ac. Road access is easy — only 18% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 660 ac of public land has no public route in.

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62%

public land

18%

of public >1 mi from a road

660 ac

landlocked public

1.47

road miles per mi²

494 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ BLM 56%■ NPS 4%■ USFS 2%□ Private 38%
Unit area475,151 ac
Public land295,637 ac (62%)
Landlocked public660 ac (0.2%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,094 mi
Maintained trails494 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road52,614 ac (18% of public)
Road density1.47 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 266k ac · NPS 20k ac · USFS 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 Colorado units

GMU 3968% public · 22% remoteGMU 4162% public · 16% remoteGMU 4255% public · 13% remote

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