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Root River South Bank: Rushford to Lanesboro
Root River South Bank: Rushford to Lanesboro is 29.8 miles of point-to-point riding through Fillmore County in Minnesota — Bluff Country, the Root River valley, the Mississippi bluffs and the ridge roads above them. Moving time is about 36 minutes; allow 50 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 46 corners, 145° of turning per mile, 1,249 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.55/mi
- Distance
- 29.8 mi36 min riding
- Corners
- 4659% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 1,249 ft42 ft/mi · Hilly
- Shape
- Point-to-pointQuick spin
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- 714vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 60 mphtypically 55
How it rides
46 corners over 29.8 miles — 1.55 a mile, and 145° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 59% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,249 feet in total, 42 feet per mile, between 709 and 1,260 feet — 550 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 547 feet over 4.0 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.6%. By Driftless standards that is hilly.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 100% of it is back road rather than highway. Posted speeds run to 60 mph, typically 55, measured across 44% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 21% of the miles — the median is 714 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.0 with 3,471.
- Backroads
- One way
- River road
- 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.