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Loo-wit — Washington

95% public hunting land across 66,775 ac. Real backcountry here — 47% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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1,030–8,070 ft

elevation range

95%

public hunting land

47%

of public >1 mi from a road

209 ac

landlocked public

0.74

road miles per mi²

128 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

■ Forest Service 78%■ State DNR 12%■ State wildlife 5%□ Private 5%

Unit area66,775 ac

Public hunting land63,387 ac (95%)

Landlocked public209 ac (0.3%)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)77 mi

Mapped trails on public land128 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road30,038 ac (47% of public)

Road density0.74 mi/mi²

Managed byForest Service 52k ac · State DNR 8k ac · State wildlife 4k ac

Elevation1,030–8,070 ft

Median elevation3,440 ft

Median slope17°

Where the ground sits

1,030 ft8,070 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 31%

E 24%

S 22%

W 23%

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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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

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

Measured at KELSO-LONGVIEW AIRPORT, 53 km from the unit’s center and ~3,400 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)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

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