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GMU 48 — Colorado

89% public across 191,931 ac. Real backcountry here — 35% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Little to no landlocked public land.

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89%

public land

35%

of public >1 mi from a road

-0 ac

landlocked public

1.36

road miles per mi²

319 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 83%■ BLM 5%■ FWS 2%□ Private 11%
Unit area191,931 ac
Public land170,628 ac (89%)
Landlocked public-0 ac (0.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)408 mi
Maintained trails319 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road60,066 ac (35% of public)
Road density1.36 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 159k ac · BLM 10k ac · FWS 3k 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 4792% public · 42% remoteGMU 4972% public · 19% remoteGMU 5048% public · 3% remote

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