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Troy and the Chatfield Ridges
Troy and the Chatfield Ridges is 26.2 miles of loop riding through Fillmore and Olmsted Counties in Minnesota — Bluff Country, the Root River valley, the Mississippi bluffs and the ridge roads above them. Moving time is about 31 minutes; allow 45 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 35 corners, 106° of turning per mile, 1,220 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.33/mi
- Distance
- 26.2 mi31 min riding
- Corners
- 3549% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 1,220 ft47 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- Backroads100% county & local
- Traffic
- 681vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
35 corners over 26.2 miles — 1.33 a mile, and 106° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 49% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,220 feet in total, 47 feet per mile, between 1,012 and 1,342 feet — 330 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 204 feet over 2.6 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.3%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
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 72% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 31% of the miles — the median is 681 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.0 with 1,876.
- 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.