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Money Creek Coulees
Money Creek Coulees is 66.2 miles of loop 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 82 minutes; allow 120 with stops — a full day. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 90 corners, 113° of turning per mile, 3,285 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.36/mi
- Distance
- 66.2 mi82 min riding
- Corners
- 9041% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 3,285 ft50 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopFull day
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- 620vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 60 mphtypically 60
How it rides
90 corners over 66.2 miles — 1.36 a mile, and 113° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 41% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 3,285 feet in total, 50 feet per mile, between 663 and 1,316 feet — 653 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 555 feet over 3.8 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.1%. 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 60 mph, typically 60, measured across 32% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 23% of the miles — the median is 620 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 13.4 with 4,457.
- Backroads
- Loop
- Big climbs
- Low traffic
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.