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Crawford Ridge Runner
Crawford Ridge Runner is 36.6 miles of point-to-point riding through Crawford County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 44 minutes; allow 65 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 55 corners, 131° of turning per mile, 1,691 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.5/mi
- Distance
- 36.6 mi44 min riding
- Corners
- 5533% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 1,691 ft46 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- Point-to-pointHalf morning
- Roads
- Mixed roads20% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,800vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
55 corners over 36.6 miles — 1.5 a mile, and 131° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 33% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,691 feet in total, 46 feet per mile, between 660 and 1,270 feet — 610 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 538 feet over 3.3 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 8.3%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 20% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 80% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 49% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 23% of the miles — the median is 1,800 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.0 with 2,000.
- One way
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.