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Arcadia–Independence–Blair Loop
Arcadia–Independence–Blair Loop is 32.7 miles of loop riding through Trempealeau County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 40 minutes; allow 60 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 37 corners, 102° of turning per mile, 799 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.13/mi
- Distance
- 32.7 mi40 min riding
- Corners
- 3746% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 799 ft25 ft/mi · Gentle
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Highway miles3% county & local
- Traffic
- 3,700vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
37 corners over 32.7 miles — 1.13 a mile, and 102° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 46% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 799 feet in total, 25 feet per mile, between 725 and 1,175 feet — 450 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 310 feet over 3.8 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 8.5%. By Driftless standards that is gentle.
Surface, speed and traffic
98.3% paved; the odd short stretch is gravel or seal coat. 3% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 97% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 42% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 31% of the miles — the median is 3,700 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 8.1 with 8,100.
- Loop
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.