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Elk area 81 — Wyoming

99% public across 224,619 ac. Real backcountry here — 30% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Little to no landlocked public land.

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99%

public land

30%

of public >1 mi from a road

-0 ac

landlocked public

1.46

road miles per mi²

320 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 99%■ NPS 0%□ Private 1%
Unit area224,619 ac
Public land222,215 ac (99%)
Landlocked public-0 ac (0.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)513 mi
Maintained trails320 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road65,997 ac (30% of public)
Road density1.46 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 222k ac · NPS 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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