About
What this site is
Land Status Guide is an independent site about who owns the ground before a bucket comes out. It started with Utah and is expanding across the western states, one state at a time. Each state gets its own page, because trust lands, state parks and field offices differ from state to state: start with Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Idaho or Wyoming. Colorado basics are up too.
It is not the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the Forest Service, or any state trust-land, parks, or wildlife agency. This site does not issue permits, sell tags, book trips, or speak for any agency.
How the pages are written
- Land status and the published rule come first. These are not secret GPS lists.
- Named beds and parks get the cap, the office, and the overlay that changes the answer: wilderness, monument, state park, mining claim, school trust.
- Gear pages recommend one item for a job that already failed in the field — goatheads, basalt, a 100-degree cab — not a catalog.
- Every rules page tells you to confirm with the managing office. Rules and maps change.
Who runs it
The site is written from Southern Utah by someone who checks land status before collecting, hunting, and working on public land across the West. Field notes are the writer’s. The legal limits are the agencies’.
Contact: hello@landstatusguide.com
How the site is paid for
The guides are free. Some gear pages link to retailers. If you buy through those links, the site may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Paid links are disclosed on the page and on the affiliate disclosure. No one pays to hide a land-status problem.
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