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Elk area 38 — Wyoming

79% public across 361,031 ac. Road access is easy — only 15% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 2,613 ac of public land has no public route in.

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79%

public land

15%

of public >1 mi from a road

2,613 ac

landlocked public

1.35

road miles per mi²

26 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 74%■ SFW 2%■ SLB 2%□ Private 21%
Unit area361,031 ac
Public land284,992 ac (79%)
Landlocked public2,613 ac (0.9%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)760 mi
Maintained trails26 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road42,285 ac (15% of public)
Road density1.35 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 267k ac · SFW 9k ac · SLB 8k 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 3754% public · 37% remoteElk area 3992% public · 8% remoteElk area 4082% public · 10% remote

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