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Elk area 96 — Wyoming

69% public across 160,464 ac. Real backcountry here — 50% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 679 ac of public land has no public route in.

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69%

public land

50%

of public >1 mi from a road

679 ac

landlocked public

1.15

road miles per mi²

127 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ USFS 60%■ BLM 4%■ SFW 2%■ Other public 2%□ Private 31%
Unit area160,464 ac
Public land109,931 ac (69%)
Landlocked public679 ac (0.6%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)289 mi
Maintained trails127 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road54,660 ac (50% of public)
Road density1.15 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 96k ac · BLM 7k ac · SFW 4k 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 95100% public · 50% remoteElk area 9785% public · 56% remoteElk area 9892% public · 16% remote

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