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Clifton Oakdale
Clifton Oakdale is 18.5 miles of loop riding through Monroe and Juneau 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 22 minutes; allow 30 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 34 corners, 185° of turning per mile, 709 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-4Twisty · 1.84/mi
- Distance
- 18.5 mi22 min riding
- Corners
- 3449% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 709 ft38 ft/mi · Hilly
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- 100% back road0% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- Unpostedno posted limits recorded
How it rides
34 corners over 18.5 miles — 1.84 a mile, and 185° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 49% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 709 feet in total, 38 feet per mile, between 933 and 1,199 feet — 266 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 194 feet over 0.6 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.7%. For this country that is hilly.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 100% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 0% state or US route. No posted speed limits are recorded for these roads. 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
- Twisty
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.