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Decorah to Waukon the High Way
Decorah to Waukon the High Way is 28.0 miles of point-to-point riding through Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties in Iowa — Driftless Iowa, the Upper Iowa, the Yellow River country and the climbs out of the Mississippi. Moving time is about 42 minutes; allow 60 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 44 corners, 141° of turning per mile, 1,344 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.57/mi
- Distance
- 28.0 mi42 min riding
- Corners
- 4461% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 1,344 ft48 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- Point-to-pointHalf morning
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- —no published counts
How it rides
44 corners over 28.0 miles — 1.57 a mile, and 141° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 61% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,344 feet in total, 48 feet per mile, between 839 and 1,307 feet — 468 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 315 feet over 2.1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.0%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
Surface, speed and traffic
80.6% paved — the rest is gravel or seal coat, so check the surface before you commit. 100% of it is back road rather than highway. No published traffic counts cover this route, so it carries no traffic figure rather than a borrowed one.
- Backroads
- One way
Worth knowing
- 19% unverified surface
- 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.