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Elk area 59 — Wyoming

91% public across 251,417 ac. Real backcountry here — 89% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 757 ac of public land has no public route in.

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91%

public land

89%

of public >1 mi from a road

757 ac

landlocked public

0.20

road miles per mi²

105 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 91%■ SLB 0%■ BLM 0%□ Private 9%
Unit area251,417 ac
Public land228,938 ac (91%)
Landlocked public757 ac (0.3%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)77 mi
Maintained trails105 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road203,328 ac (89% of public)
Road density0.20 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 228k ac · SLB 1k ac · BLM 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 5833% public · 1% remoteElk area 60100% public · 100% remoteElk area 6169% public · 50% remote

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