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Czech Corner
Czech Corner is 38.6 miles of loop riding through Winneshiek and Howard Counties in Iowa — Driftless Iowa, the Upper Iowa, the Yellow River country and the climbs out of the Mississippi. Moving time is about 49 minutes; allow 70 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 53 corners, 125° of turning per mile, 1,625 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.37/mi
- Distance
- 38.6 mi49 min riding
- Corners
- 5342% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 1,625 ft42 ft/mi · Hilly
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Backroads75% county & local
- Traffic
- —no published counts
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
53 corners over 38.6 miles — 1.37 a mile, and 125° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 42% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,625 feet in total, 42 feet per mile, between 875 and 1,281 feet — 405 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 197 feet over 1.7 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.9%. By Driftless standards that is hilly.
Surface, speed and traffic
95.0% paved — the rest is gravel or seal coat, so check the surface before you commit. 75% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 25% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 23% of the route. No published traffic counts cover this route, so it carries no traffic figure rather than a borrowed one.
- Backroads
- Loop
Worth knowing
- Fuel sparse — top off before you go
Turn-by-turn directions and the spoken notes along the way are in the app. Every figure on this page is measured from the route itself — corner counts and gradients from the road geometry, elevation from the national elevation dataset, traffic from the state transport departments where counts exist.