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Wasatch Front Extended Archery Area — Utah

40% public across 444,846 ac. Real backcountry here — 30% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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4,200–11,350 ft

elevation range

40%

public land

30%

of public >1 mi from a road

2,744 ac

landlocked public

6.21

road miles per mi²

6,546 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Tags: check Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

No draw hunts are published for this unit. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Utah Division of Wildlife Resources's regulations.

Plus: Utah 365-day hunting license$40.00 resident · $144.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Utah Division of Wildlife Resources's regulations

2026 Utah Big Game Application Guidebook (fees, dates, permit table) ↗

UDWR licenses ↗How the Utah draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, 2026, verified 2026-08-12 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a unit that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: 2026 Utah Big Game Application Guidebook (fees, dates, permit table) · Utah Admin. Code R657-62-8 — bonus points, 50% reservation · UDWR licenses.

Land & access

■ USFS 32%■ SDNR 4%■ CITY 1%■ Other public 2%□ Private 60%

Unit area444,846 ac

Public land176,320 ac (40%)

Landlocked public2,744 ac (1.6%)

Walk-in access88 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)4,318 mi

Maintained trails6,546 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road52,060 ac (30% of public)

Road density6.21 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 142k ac · SDNR 19k ac · CITY 6k ac

Elevation4,200–11,350 ft

Median elevation5,780 ft

Median slope12°

Where the ground sits

4,200 ft11,350 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%

E 16%

S 25%

W 33%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

Unit intelligence report

9,405 ac of this unit has burned — 2% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at SALT LAKE CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, 13 km from the unit’s center and ~1,600 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)
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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.

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