[randallsquared]

If you want to be where people are, you can just be home. Isn't the point of hiking and camping being away from other people? ;)

[cpcallen]

You misunderstand. The point is that people are only able/willing to travel a certain distance from where they live to use public land. Public land that's very far way from population centres is not useful (for public access purposes) regardless of how much of it there is.