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Elk area 117 — Wyoming

22% public across 485,656 ac. Road access is easy — only 4% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 8,296 ac of public land has no public route in.

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22%

public land

4%

of public >1 mi from a road

8,296 ac

landlocked public

1.74

road miles per mi²

11 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 10%■ SLB 9%■ BLM 3%□ Private 78%
Unit area485,656 ac
Public land106,039 ac (22%)
Landlocked public8,296 ac (7.8%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,317 mi
Maintained trails11 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road3,944 ac (4% of public)
Road density1.74 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 47k ac · SLB 43k ac · BLM 16k 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 Wyoming units

Elk area 11621% public · 12% remoteElk area 11871% public · 19% remoteElk area 12066% public · 6% remote

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