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Elk area 8 — Wyoming

20% public across 241,005 ac. Real backcountry here — 26% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 6,853 ac of public land has no public route in.

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20%

public land

26%

of public >1 mi from a road

6,853 ac

landlocked public

0.70

road miles per mi²

6 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ BLM 10%■ SLB 8%■ FWS 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 80%
Unit area241,005 ac
Public land47,674 ac (20%)
Landlocked public6,853 ac (14.4%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)265 mi
Maintained trails6 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road12,217 ac (26% of public)
Road density0.70 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 24k ac · SLB 20k ac · FWS 2k 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 729% public · 8% remoteElk area 964% public · 10% remoteElk area 1030% public · 16% remote

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