The outfitter seems to be answering your questions without really answering them, no specifics.

I'd want to do a map recon before being there and I can't think that someone with nothing to hide wouldn't provide that information to incoming clients. A prepared client is likely to be a successful/happy client.

I have experienced pushback from locals who were upset that I was granted access to land that they didn't have access to. Particularly so when the ranch blocked the best/easiest access to public land in the area, even though I was hunting on the deeded land and not on the public land.