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Lansing Ridge Run
Lansing Ridge Run is 56.6 miles of loop riding through Allamakee County in Iowa — Driftless Iowa, the Upper Iowa, the Yellow River country and the climbs out of the Mississippi. Moving time is about 73 minutes; allow 105 with stops — a half day. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 87 corners, 134° of turning per mile, 2,560 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.54/mi
- Distance
- 56.6 mi73 min riding
- Corners
- 8736% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 2,560 ft45 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- LoopHalf day
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- —no published counts
How it rides
87 corners over 56.6 miles — 1.54 a mile, and 134° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 36% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 2,560 feet in total, 45 feet per mile, between 621 and 1,319 feet — 698 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 505 feet over 4.0 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.9%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
Surface, speed and traffic
89.6% 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
- Loop
Worth knowing
- 10% 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.