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Elk area 40 — Wyoming

82% public across 296,068 ac. Road access is easy — only 10% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Little to no landlocked public land.

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82%

public land

10%

of public >1 mi from a road

392 ac

landlocked public

1.32

road miles per mi²

26 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ BLM 50%■ USFS 29%■ SLB 3%□ Private 18%
Unit area296,068 ac
Public land244,200 ac (82%)
Landlocked public392 ac (0.2%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)610 mi
Maintained trails26 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road24,029 ac (10% of public)
Road density1.32 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 149k ac · USFS 86k ac · SLB 9k 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 3992% public · 8% remoteElk area 4185% public · 9% remoteElk area 4584% public · 17% remote

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