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Elk area 78 — Wyoming

37% public across 45,417 ac. Real backcountry here — 36% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Little to no landlocked public land.

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37%

public land

36%

of public >1 mi from a road

160 ac

landlocked public

2.48

road miles per mi²

104 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 32%■ SLB 3%■ BLM 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 63%
Unit area45,417 ac
Public land16,719 ac (37%)
Landlocked public160 ac (1.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)176 mi
Maintained trails104 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road6,049 ac (36% of public)
Road density2.48 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 15k ac · SLB 1k ac · BLM 1k 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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