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Cranberry Country Cruise
Cranberry Country Cruise is 47.5 miles of point-to-point riding through Monroe County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 56 minutes; allow 80 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 30 corners, 59° of turning per mile, 1,275 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-1Cruiser · 0.63/mi
- Distance
- 47.5 mi56 min riding
- Corners
- 3040% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 1,275 ft27 ft/mi · Gentle
- Shape
- Point-to-pointHalf morning
- Roads
- Mixed roads37% county & local
- Traffic
- 3,300vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
30 corners over 47.5 miles — 0.63 a mile, and 59° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 40% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,275 feet in total, 27 feet per mile, between 793 and 1,182 feet — 389 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 194 feet over 1.6 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.1%. By Driftless standards that is gentle.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 37% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 63% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 62% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 27% of the miles — the median is 3,300 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 1.2 with 14,200.
- Scenic cruise
- Easy logistics
- One way
Worth knowing
- Busy stretch near mile 1 (14,200 vehicles a day)
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.