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Waukon to Decorah Backroads
Waukon to Decorah Backroads is 22.3 miles of point-to-point riding through Allamakee and Winneshiek Counties in Iowa — Driftless Iowa, the Upper Iowa, the Yellow River country and the climbs out of the Mississippi. Moving time is about 34 minutes; allow 50 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 28 corners, 136° of turning per mile, 641 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.25/mi
- Distance
- 22.3 mi34 min riding
- Corners
- 2879% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 641 ft29 ft/mi · Gentle
- Shape
- Point-to-pointQuick spin
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- —no published counts
How it rides
28 corners over 22.3 miles — 1.25 a mile, and 136° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 79% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 641 feet in total, 29 feet per mile, between 845 and 1,279 feet — 434 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 262 feet over 2.4 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 6.9%. By Driftless standards that is gentle.
Surface, speed and traffic
78.0% 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
- 22% 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.