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Elk area 72 — Wyoming

100% public across 38,554 ac. Real backcountry here — 100% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Little to no landlocked public land.

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100%

public land

100%

of public >1 mi from a road

-0 ac

landlocked public

0.00

road miles per mi²

35 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ NPS 99%■ USFS 1%□ Private 0%
Unit area38,554 ac
Public land38,494 ac (100%)
Landlocked public-0 ac (0.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)-0 mi
Maintained trails35 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road38,390 ac (100% of public)
Road density0.00 mi/mi²
Managed byNPS 38k ac · USFS 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

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