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GMU 53 — Colorado

77% public across 253,634 ac. Real backcountry here — 48% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Little to no landlocked public land.

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77%

public land

48%

of public >1 mi from a road

-0 ac

landlocked public

1.06

road miles per mi²

294 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 68%■ BLM 9%■ SFW 0%□ Private 23%
Unit area253,634 ac
Public land194,936 ac (77%)
Landlocked public-0 ac (0.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)418 mi
Maintained trails294 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road93,337 ac (48% of public)
Road density1.06 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 173k ac · BLM 22k ac · SFW 0k 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 5248% public · 11% remoteGMU 5478% public · 34% remoteGMU 5590% public · 17% remote

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