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Baraboo Durwards Glen
Baraboo Durwards Glen is 34.7 miles of loop riding through Sauk and Columbia Counties in Wisconsin — The Dells Region, the baraboo hills, the lower wisconsin river and the ridge roads between reedsburg and spring green. Moving time is about 41 minutes; allow 60 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 31 corners, 114° of turning per mile, 2,022 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-1Cruiser · 0.89/mi
- Distance
- 34.7 mi41 min riding
- Corners
- 3148% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 2,022 ft58 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- 65% back road35% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
31 corners over 34.7 miles — 0.89 a mile, and 114° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 48% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 2,022 feet in total, 58 feet per mile, between 796 and 1,421 feet — 625 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 502 feet over 1.6 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 12.4%. For this country that is relentless.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 65% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 35% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 3% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 4% of these miles, too little to put a number on, which is itself a fair sign of how quiet they are.
- Loop
- Big climbing
Turn-by-turn directions and the 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 NASA SRTM, traffic from the state transport department where counts exist.