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Highway 43: Winona to Rushford

Highway 43: Winona to Rushford is 27.5 miles of point-to-point riding through Winona and Fillmore Counties in Minnesota — Bluff Country, the Root River valley, the Mississippi bluffs and the ridge roads above them. Moving time is about 35 minutes; allow 50 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 37 corners, 141° of turning per mile, 1,418 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-3Spirited · 1.34/mi
Distance
27.5 mi35 min riding
Corners
3738% sharp · Sweeping
Climbing
1,418 ft52 ft/mi · Relentless
Shape
Point-to-pointQuick spin
Roads
Backroads100% county & local
Traffic
1,662vehicles a day, median
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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How it rides

37 corners over 27.5 miles — 1.34 a mile, and 141° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 38% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.

What it climbs

The road climbs 1,418 feet in total, 52 feet per mile, between 650 and 1,349 feet — 699 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 531 feet over 3.8 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.0%. By Driftless standards that is relentless.

Surface, speed and traffic

Paved end to end. 100% of it is back road rather than highway. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 56% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 30% of the miles — the median is 1,662 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 1.4 with 17,430.

Worth knowing

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.

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