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Rushford to Chatfield Ridge
Rushford to Chatfield Ridge is 27.5 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 32 minutes; allow 45 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 31 corners, 90° of turning per mile, 1,661 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.13/mi
- Distance
- 27.5 mi32 min riding
- Corners
- 3132% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 1,661 ft61 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- Point-to-pointQuick spin
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- 681vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
31 corners over 27.5 miles — 1.13 a mile, and 90° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 32% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,661 feet in total, 61 feet per mile, between 725 and 1,248 feet — 522 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 510 feet over 3.3 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 8.0%. 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 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 84% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 21% of the miles — the median is 681 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 27.1 with 1,876.
- Backroads
- One way
- Big climbs
- 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.