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GMU 551 — Colorado

87% public across 349,396 ac. Road access is easy — only 3% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 638 ac of public land has no public route in.

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87%

public land

3%

of public >1 mi from a road

638 ac

landlocked public

2.19

road miles per mi²

620 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 67%■ BLM 19%■ SFW 1%□ Private 13%
Unit area349,396 ac
Public land303,227 ac (87%)
Landlocked public638 ac (0.2%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,197 mi
Maintained trails620 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road8,797 ac (3% of public)
Road density2.19 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 233k ac · BLM 68k ac · SFW 2k 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 52175% public · 36% remoteGMU 56191% public · 9% remoteGMU 58144% public · 13% remote

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