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CTH W Clifton
CTH W Clifton is 23.1 miles of loop riding through Monroe County in Wisconsin — Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west wisconsin. Moving time is about 30 minutes; allow 45 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-5, Technical: 54 corners, 210° of turning per mile, 943 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-5Technical · 2.34/mi
- Distance
- 23.1 mi30 min riding
- Corners
- 5454% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 943 ft41 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
54 corners over 23.1 miles — 2.34 a mile, and 210° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-5, Technical on the five-point curviness scale. 54% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 943 feet in total, 41 feet per mile, between 931 and 1,173 feet — 242 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 107 feet over 0.6 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.6%. 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.