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Elk area 48 — Wyoming

58% public across 596,180 ac. Road access is easy — only 3% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 3,763 ac of public land has no public route in.

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58%

public land

3%

of public >1 mi from a road

3,763 ac

landlocked public

1.28

road miles per mi²

2 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ BLM 47%■ SLB 11%□ Private 42%
Unit area596,180 ac
Public land346,630 ac (58%)
Landlocked public3,763 ac (1.1%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,189 mi
Maintained trails2 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road8,668 ac (3% of public)
Road density1.28 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 280k ac · SLB 67k 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

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