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Witoka to La Crescent

Witoka to La Crescent is 31.4 miles of point-to-point riding through Winona and Houston Counties in Minnesota — Bluff Country, the Root River valley, the Mississippi bluffs and the ridge roads above them. Moving time is about 43 minutes; allow 60 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 44 corners, 138° of turning per mile, 1,632 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-3Spirited · 1.4/mi
Distance
31.4 mi43 min riding
Corners
4439% sharp · Mixed
Climbing
1,632 ft52 ft/mi · Relentless
Shape
Point-to-pointHalf morning
Roads
Backroads100% county & local
Traffic
769vehicles a day, median
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 45
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How it rides

44 corners over 31.4 miles — 1.4 a mile, and 138° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 39% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.

What it climbs

The road climbs 1,632 feet in total, 52 feet per mile, between 650 and 1,349 feet — 699 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 531 feet over 3.8 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 8.4%. 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 45, measured across 22% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 34% of the miles — the median is 769 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 1.4 with 17,430.

Worth knowing

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.

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