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Elk area 28 — Wyoming

85% public across 347,216 ac. Real backcountry here — 39% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 843 ac of public land has no public route in.

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85%

public land

39%

of public >1 mi from a road

843 ac

landlocked public

1.31

road miles per mi²

251 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 66%■ BLM 12%■ SLB 4%■ Other public 3%□ Private 15%
Unit area347,216 ac
Public land294,930 ac (85%)
Landlocked public843 ac (0.3%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)713 mi
Maintained trails251 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road115,309 ac (39% of public)
Road density1.31 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 230k ac · BLM 40k ac · SLB 14k 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 2794% public · 29% remoteElk area 3058% public · 3% remoteElk area 3189% public · 2% remote

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