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Baraboo West Baraboo
Baraboo West Baraboo is 26.6 miles of loop riding through Sauk County 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 31 minutes; allow 45 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 22 corners, 107° of turning per mile, 984 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-1Cruiser · 0.83/mi
- Distance
- 26.6 mi31 min riding
- Corners
- 2251% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 984 ft37 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- 96% back road4% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- 45 mphtypically 45
How it rides
22 corners over 26.6 miles — 0.83 a mile, and 107° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 51% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 984 feet in total, 37 feet per mile, between 874 and 1,210 feet — 335 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 270 feet over 1.2 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.2%. For this country that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 96% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 4% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 45 mph, typically 45, measured across 12% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 1% of these miles, too little to put a number on, which is itself a fair sign of how quiet they are.
- Backroads
- Loop
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.