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GMU 85 — Colorado

19% public across 751,836 ac. Road access is easy — only 14% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 2,907 ac of public land has no public route in.

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19%

public land

14%

of public >1 mi from a road

2,907 ac

landlocked public

1.88

road miles per mi²

139 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 9%■ BLM 4%■ SLB 3%■ Other public 4%□ Private 81%
Unit area751,836 ac
Public land146,498 ac (19%)
Landlocked public2,907 ac (2.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,208 mi
Maintained trails139 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road20,253 ac (14% of public)
Road density1.88 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 68k ac · BLM 29k ac · SLB 22k 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 8429% public · 16% remoteGMU 8656% public · 29% remoteGMU 8724% public · 8% remote

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