Mines grad’s app helps solve access question for some of Colorado’s 704,000 acres of inaccessible public lands

As a student at the Colorado School of Mines, Sam Seeton juggled his role as running back for the school’s football team with his pursuit of a petroleum engineering degree, all while managing hunting and fishing access to his family’s ranch outside Buena Vista.

Then, some friends with land in eastern Colorado asked if he could help them manage access to their land for pheasant hunters. Soon, some neighbors asked, too.

“Then from there, it just snowballed,” he said.

After graduating, Seeton decided to take a leap. In 2020, while working for Anheuser-Busch, he and some friends launched an app — called Infinite Outdoors — to help work out access to private land for hunting and fishing. Their aim was for the app to serve as the “Airbnb for outdoorsmen,” and also to forge the way for free ac