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Gillingham Buck Creek
Gillingham Buck Creek is 22.0 miles of loop riding through Richland 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 28 minutes; allow 40 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 28 corners, 136° of turning per mile, 726 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.27/mi
- Distance
- 22.0 mi28 min riding
- Corners
- 2852% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 726 ft33 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- 94% back road6% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
28 corners over 22.0 miles — 1.27 a mile, and 136° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 52% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 726 feet in total, 33 feet per mile, between 752 and 1,231 feet — 479 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 227 feet over 1.2 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 6.8%. For this country that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 94% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 6% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 45% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 6% 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.