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GMU 79 — Colorado

74% public across 272,698 ac. Road access is easy — only 2% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Little to no landlocked public land.

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74%

public land

2%

of public >1 mi from a road

363 ac

landlocked public

1.97

road miles per mi²

344 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 65%■ BLM 7%■ NGO 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 26%
Unit area272,698 ac
Public land202,121 ac (74%)
Landlocked public363 ac (0.2%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)840 mi
Maintained trails344 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road4,823 ac (2% of public)
Road density1.97 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 177k ac · BLM 18k ac · NGO 4k 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 7863% public · 43% remoteGMU 8059% public · 6% remoteGMU 8171% public · 18% remote

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