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Whitewater Country
Whitewater Country is 28.4 miles of loop riding through Winona 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: 39 corners, 120° of turning per mile, 1,060 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.37/mi
- Distance
- 28.4 mi36 min riding
- Corners
- 3949% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 1,060 ft37 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- Backroads96% county & local
- Traffic
- 857vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
39 corners over 28.4 miles — 1.37 a mile, and 120° 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 1,060 feet in total, 37 feet per mile, between 668 and 1,229 feet — 561 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 447 feet over 5.3 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 8.8%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 96% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 4% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 21% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 27% of the miles — the median is 857 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 24.5 with 2,882.
- 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.