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Amish Harmony
Amish Harmony is 45.2 miles of loop riding through Fillmore County in Minnesota — Bluff Country, the Root River valley, the Mississippi bluffs and the ridge roads above them. Moving time is about 56 minutes; allow 80 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 60 corners, 117° of turning per mile, 2,133 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.33/mi
- Distance
- 45.2 mi56 min riding
- Corners
- 6052% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 2,133 ft47 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Backroads63% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,224vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 60 mphtypically 60
How it rides
60 corners over 45.2 miles — 1.33 a mile, and 117° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 52% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 2,133 feet in total, 47 feet per mile, between 828 and 1,337 feet — 509 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 417 feet over 3.4 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.8%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 63% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 37% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 60 mph, typically 60, measured across 48% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 33% of the miles — the median is 1,224 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 29.2 with 6,143.
- Backroads
- Loop
- Low traffic
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.