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Lewiston to the River
Lewiston to the River is 18.5 miles of point-to-point riding through Winona County in Minnesota — Bluff Country, the Root River valley, the Mississippi bluffs and the ridge roads above them. Moving time is about 24 minutes; allow 35 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 26 corners, 140° of turning per mile, 207 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.41/mi
- Distance
- 18.5 mi24 min riding
- Corners
- 2646% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 207 ft11 ft/mi · Gentle
- Shape
- Point-to-pointQuick spin
- Roads
- Backroads98% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,781vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
26 corners over 18.5 miles — 1.41 a mile, and 140° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 46% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 207 feet in total, 11 feet per mile, between 647 and 1,250 feet — 603 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 52 feet over 0.4 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 4.8%. By Driftless standards that is gentle.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 98% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 2% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 29% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 34% of the miles — the median is 1,781 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 14.7 with 8,630.
- Backroads
- One way
- River road
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.