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GMU 56 — Colorado

70% public across 152,171 ac. Road access is easy — only 15% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Little to no landlocked public land.

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70%

public land

15%

of public >1 mi from a road

-0 ac

landlocked public

2.11

road miles per mi²

197 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 61%■ BLM 6%■ SFW 5%□ Private 30%
Unit area152,171 ac
Public land106,153 ac (70%)
Landlocked public-0 ac (0.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)501 mi
Maintained trails197 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road15,904 ac (15% of public)
Road density2.11 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 92k ac · BLM 9k ac · SFW 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 5590% public · 17% remoteGMU 5776% public · 11% remoteGMU 5851% public · 12% remote

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