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GMU 8 — Colorado

77% public across 269,125 ac. Road access is easy — only 3% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 693 ac of public land has no public route in.

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77%

public land

3%

of public >1 mi from a road

693 ac

landlocked public

3.47

road miles per mi²

307 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 67%■ BLM 6%■ SFW 4%■ Other public 1%□ Private 23%
Unit area269,125 ac
Public land207,817 ac (77%)
Landlocked public693 ac (0.3%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,461 mi
Maintained trails307 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road6,800 ac (3% of public)
Road density3.47 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 179k ac · BLM 17k ac · SFW 10k 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 787% public · 42% remoteGMU 926% public · 37% remoteGMU 1078% public · 8% remote

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