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Apple Ridge: Ferryville to Viroqua

Apple Ridge: Ferryville to Viroqua is 38.3 miles of point-to-point riding through Crawford and Vernon Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 46 minutes; allow 65 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 60 corners, 130° of turning per mile, 2,090 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-3Spirited · 1.56/mi
Distance
38.3 mi46 min riding
Corners
6040% sharp · Mixed
Climbing
2,090 ft55 ft/mi · Relentless
Shape
Point-to-pointHalf morning
Roads
Mixed roads20% county & local
Traffic
2,600vehicles a day, median
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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How it rides

60 corners over 38.3 miles — 1.56 a mile, and 130° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 40% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.

What it climbs

The road climbs 2,090 feet in total, 55 feet per mile, between 617 and 1,294 feet — 677 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 427 feet over 3.3 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.5%. By Driftless standards that is relentless.

Surface, speed and traffic

97.9% paved; the odd short stretch is gravel or seal coat. 20% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 80% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 53% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 32% of the miles — the median is 2,600 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 37.4 with 11,700.

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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