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Elk area 56 — Wyoming

88% public across 302,600 ac. Real backcountry here — 82% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 1,023 ac of public land has no public route in.

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88%

public land

82%

of public >1 mi from a road

1,023 ac

landlocked public

0.31

road miles per mi²

49 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 78%■ BLM 7%■ SLB 2%■ Other public 2%□ Private 12%
Unit area302,600 ac
Public land267,385 ac (88%)
Landlocked public1,023 ac (0.4%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)147 mi
Maintained trails49 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road220,418 ac (82% of public)
Road density0.31 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 236k ac · BLM 20k ac · SLB 5k 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 55100% public · 87% remoteElk area 5833% public · 1% remoteElk area 5991% public · 89% remote

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