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Lenora and the Old Stone Church
Lenora and the Old Stone Church is 70.3 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 89 minutes; allow 130 with stops — a full day. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 74 corners, 84° of turning per mile, 3,150 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.05/mi
- Distance
- 70.3 mi89 min riding
- Corners
- 7449% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 3,150 ft45 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- LoopFull day
- Roads
- Backroads90% county & local
- Traffic
- 355vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 60 mphtypically 60
How it rides
74 corners over 70.3 miles — 1.05 a mile, and 84° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 49% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 3,150 feet in total, 45 feet per mile, between 815 and 1,352 feet — 536 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 309 feet over 1.2 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.0%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 90% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 10% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 60 mph, typically 60, measured across 16% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 22% of the miles — the median is 355 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.0 with 3,614.
- 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.