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Bangor–Middle Ridge–Cashton Loop
Bangor–Middle Ridge–Cashton Loop is 40.8 miles of loop riding through La Crosse and Monroe Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 50 minutes; allow 70 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 59 corners, 122° of turning per mile, 1,317 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.44/mi
- Distance
- 40.8 mi50 min riding
- Corners
- 5944% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 1,317 ft32 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Mixed roads27% county & local
- Traffic
- 3,900vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
59 corners over 40.8 miles — 1.44 a mile, and 122° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 44% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,317 feet in total, 32 feet per mile, between 727 and 1,367 feet — 640 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 459 feet over 3.1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 8.5%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 27% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 73% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 58% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 23% of the miles — the median is 3,900 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 30.4 with 5,600.
- Loop
Worth knowing
- Fuel sparse — top off before you go
- 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.