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GMU 42 — Colorado

55% public across 387,358 ac. Road access is easy — only 13% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 655 ac of public land has no public route in.

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55%

public land

13%

of public >1 mi from a road

655 ac

landlocked public

1.47

road miles per mi²

266 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 30%■ BLM 22%■ SFW 3%□ Private 45%
Unit area387,358 ac
Public land214,144 ac (55%)
Landlocked public655 ac (0.3%)
Walk-in access102 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)887 mi
Maintained trails266 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road28,793 ac (13% of public)
Road density1.47 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 115k ac · BLM 85k ac · SFW 13k 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 4162% public · 16% remoteGMU 4374% public · 41% remoteGMU 4479% public · 16% remote

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