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Elk area 61 — Wyoming

69% public across 246,359 ac. Real backcountry here — 50% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 3,259 ac of public land has no public route in.

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69%

public land

50%

of public >1 mi from a road

3,259 ac

landlocked public

0.66

road miles per mi²

98 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 40%■ BLM 17%■ SLB 13%□ Private 31%
Unit area246,359 ac
Public land170,785 ac (69%)
Landlocked public3,259 ac (1.9%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)254 mi
Maintained trails98 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road85,805 ac (50% of public)
Road density0.66 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 98k ac · BLM 42k ac · SLB 31k 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 60100% public · 100% remoteElk area 6283% public · 44% remoteElk area 6370% public · 40% remote

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