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Elk area 51 — Wyoming

98% public across 415,899 ac. Real backcountry here — 59% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Little to no landlocked public land.

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98%

public land

59%

of public >1 mi from a road

-0 ac

landlocked public

0.58

road miles per mi²

227 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 98%■ SFW 0%■ NPS 0%□ Private 2%
Unit area415,899 ac
Public land407,350 ac (98%)
Landlocked public-0 ac (0.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)378 mi
Maintained trails227 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road239,653 ac (59% of public)
Road density0.58 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 406k ac · SFW 1k ac · NPS 0k 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 4971% public · 2% remoteElk area 5468% public · 32% remoteElk area 55100% public · 87% remote

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