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Amish Country Run: Cashton–Norwalk–Wilton–Ontario
Amish Country Run: Cashton–Norwalk–Wilton–Ontario is 35.8 miles of loop riding through Monroe and Vernon Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 45 minutes; allow 65 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 46 corners, 108° of turning per mile, 1,265 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.29/mi
- Distance
- 35.8 mi45 min riding
- Corners
- 4639% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 1,265 ft35 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Mixed roads33% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,600vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
46 corners over 35.8 miles — 1.29 a mile, and 108° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy 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 1,265 feet in total, 35 feet per mile, between 866 and 1,406 feet — 541 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 329 feet over 3.3 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.2%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 33% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 67% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 40% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 32% of the miles — the median is 1,600 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.0 with 4,100.
- Scenic cruise
- Loop
Worth knowing
- Amish buggies — slow on blind crests
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.