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Rossville Coulees
Rossville Coulees is 43.6 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 55 minutes; allow 80 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 48 corners, 91° of turning per mile, 1,551 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.1/mi
- Distance
- 43.6 mi55 min riding
- Corners
- 4840% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 1,551 ft36 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Backroads99% county & local
- Traffic
- —no published counts
How it rides
48 corners over 43.6 miles — 1.1 a mile, and 91° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 40% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,551 feet in total, 36 feet per mile, between 767 and 1,260 feet — 492 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 332 feet over 3.8 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.7%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 99% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 1% state or US 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.