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Bratsberg and Choice Ridge
Bratsberg and Choice Ridge is 47.4 miles of loop riding through Fillmore and Houston Counties in Minnesota — Bluff Country, the Root River valley, the Mississippi bluffs and the ridge roads above them. Moving time is about 58 minutes; allow 85 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 83 corners, 138° of turning per mile, 2,193 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-4Twisty · 1.75/mi
- Distance
- 47.4 mi58 min riding
- Corners
- 8348% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 2,193 ft46 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- 805vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 60 mphtypically 55
How it rides
83 corners over 47.4 miles — 1.75 a mile, and 138° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 48% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 2,193 feet in total, 46 feet per mile, between 708 and 1,315 feet — 606 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 547 feet over 3.0 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.1%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 100% of it is back road rather than highway. Posted speeds run to 60 mph, typically 55, measured across 40% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 19% of the miles — the median is 805 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 17.1 with 4,457.
- 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.