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Unassigned Water — Washington

1% public hunting land across 840,197 ac. Real backcountry here — 30% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 2,792 ac of public land has no public route in.

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0–230 ft

elevation range

public hunting land

30%

of public >1 mi from a road

2,792 ac

landlocked public

0.01

road miles per mi²

0 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Tags: check Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

No draw hunts are published for this gmu. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's regulations.

Plus: Washington big game hunting licence$61.70 resident · $599.07 nonresident

Season dates: see Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's regulations

WDFW — Big game hunting licences and tags (2026) ↗

WDFW — Big game hunting licences and tags (2026) ↗How the Washington draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2026, verified 2026-08-15 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a gmu that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: WDFW — Big game hunting licences and tags (2026) · WDFW — Special hunt permits.

Land & access

■ Wildlife refuge 1%■ State wildlife 0%■ State DNR 0%▨ Parks & other public 1%□ Private 98%

Unit area840,197 ac

Public hunting land7,002 ac (1%)

Parks & other public11,536 ac · State parks, National Park Service, Nonprofit preserve

Landlocked public2,792 ac (39.9%)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)11 mi

Mapped trails on public land0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road2,125 ac (30% of public)

Road density0.01 mi/mi²

Managed byWildlife refuge 6k ac · State wildlife 1k ac · State DNR 0k ac

Elevation0–230 ft

Median elevation0 ft

Median slope0°

Where the ground sits

0 ft230 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 35%

E 21%

S 17%

W 28%

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 →

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9 ac of this gmu has burned — 0% 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 DESTRUCTION IS. WA, 35 km from the unit’s center. 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)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

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