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Brownsville Bluff Climb
Brownsville Bluff Climb is 14.2 miles of point-to-point riding through Houston County in Minnesota — Bluff Country, the Root River valley, the Mississippi bluffs and the ridge roads above them. Moving time is about 20 minutes; allow 30 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 24 corners, 137° of turning per mile, 977 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-4Twisty · 1.69/mi
- Distance
- 14.2 mi20 min riding
- Corners
- 2454% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 977 ft69 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- Point-to-pointQuick spin
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- 830vehicles a day, median
How it rides
24 corners over 14.2 miles — 1.69 a mile, and 137° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 54% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 977 feet in total, 69 feet per mile, between 661 and 1,215 feet — 554 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 484 feet over 2.2 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 6.8%. By Driftless standards that is relentless.
Surface, speed and traffic
99.2% paved; the odd short stretch is gravel or seal coat. 100% of it is back road rather than highway. Where traffic counts exist — 26% of the miles — the median is 830 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 13.9 with 3,118.
- Sport ride
- Backroads
- One way
- Big climbs
- 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.