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Prosper and the State Line
Prosper and the State Line is 33.9 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 38 minutes; allow 55 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 26 corners, 70° of turning per mile, 1,152 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-1Cruiser · 0.77/mi
- Distance
- 33.9 mi38 min riding
- Corners
- 2642% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 1,152 ft34 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- Backroads92% county & local
- Traffic
- 364vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 60 mphtypically 60
How it rides
26 corners over 33.9 miles — 0.77 a mile, and 70° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 42% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,152 feet in total, 34 feet per mile, between 1,086 and 1,359 feet — 272 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 171 feet over 3.2 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 5.9%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 92% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 8% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 60 mph, typically 60, measured across 67% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 27% of the miles — the median is 364 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 27.0 with 3,365.
- 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.