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Bluff Country, Minnesota

The Root River valley, the Mississippi bluffs and the ridge roads above them. 25 roads, 1,000 miles and 1,335 corners across Houston, Fillmore, southern Winona counties — the southeast corner of the state, where the last glaciation stopped and left the rivers to cut the hills instead of ice flattening them.

Each road below is scored on the same five-point curviness scale, measured from the road geometry rather than guessed at: CS-1 is a road that mostly goes straight, CS-5 turns almost continuously.

Route	Miles	Curviness	Corners	Climb ft	Shape
Bratsberg and Choice Ridge Fillmore / Houston	47.4	CS-4	83	2,193	Loop
Chatfield and the Pilot Mound Ridges Fillmore	48.6	CS-4	79	2,442	Loop
Pilot Mound and the Fillmore Ridges Fillmore	37.6	CS-4	65	1,879	Loop
Eitzen and the Southern Coulees Houston	22.7	CS-4	39	1,034	Loop
Brownsville Bluff Climb Houston	14.2	CS-4	24	977	Point-to-point
Money Creek Coulees Houston	66.2	CS-3	90	3,285	Loop
Winona Bluff Loop Winona	65.2	CS-3	88	2,758	Loop
Beaver Creek and the Caledonia Ridges Houston	54.7	CS-3	78	2,737	Loop
The Root River Round Trip Fillmore	51.9	CS-3	68	2,036	Loop
Amish Harmony Fillmore	45.2	CS-3	60	2,133	Loop
Great River Road: Winona to Brownsville Winona / Houston	39.7	CS-3	55	1,492	Point-to-point
Root River South Bank: Rushford to Lanesboro Fillmore	29.8	CS-3	46	1,249	Point-to-point
Witoka to La Crescent Winona / Houston	31.4	CS-3	44	1,632	Point-to-point
Whitewater Country Winona	28.4	CS-3	39	1,060	Loop
Highway 43: Winona to Rushford Winona / Fillmore	27.5	CS-3	37	1,418	Point-to-point
Troy and the Chatfield Ridges Fillmore / Olmsted	26.2	CS-3	35	1,220	Loop
Lewiston to the River Winona	18.5	CS-3	26	207	Point-to-point
Nodine and the Pickwick Valleys Winona / Houston	66.7	CS-2	81	2,826	Loop
Lenora and the Old Stone Church Fillmore / Houston	70.3	CS-2	74	3,150	Loop
Choice Ridge: Houston to Spring Grove Houston	48.6	CS-2	63	2,806	Point-to-point
La Crescent and the Pine Creek Coulees Houston	43.5	CS-2	50	1,813	Loop
Root River Run Fillmore / Houston	29.3	CS-2	34	607	Point-to-point
Rushford to Chatfield Ridge Fillmore	27.5	CS-2	31	1,661	Point-to-point
Prosper and the State Line Fillmore / Houston	33.9	CS-1	26	1,152	Loop
Freeburg and the River Coulees Houston	25.3	CS-1	20	975	Loop

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