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Village Creek and the Yellow River
Village Creek and the Yellow River is 39.2 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 56 minutes; allow 80 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 57 corners, 125° of turning per mile, 2,397 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.45/mi
- Distance
- 39.2 mi56 min riding
- Corners
- 5733% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 2,397 ft61 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- —no published counts
How it rides
57 corners over 39.2 miles — 1.45 a mile, and 125° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 33% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 2,397 feet in total, 61 feet per mile, between 625 and 1,257 feet — 632 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 416 feet over 2.5 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.6%. By Driftless standards that is relentless.
Surface, speed and traffic
82.2% 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
- Big climbs
Worth knowing
- 18% 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.