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Grandad Bluff to Coon Valley

Grandad Bluff to Coon Valley is 45.3 miles of loop riding through La Crosse and Vernon Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 61 minutes; allow 90 with stops — a half day. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 58 corners, 116° of turning per mile, 1,963 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-2Easy · 1.28/mi
Distance
45.3 mi61 min riding
Corners
5843% sharp · Mixed
Climbing
1,963 ft44 ft/mi · Steep
Shape
LoopHalf day
Roads
Backroads54% county & local
Traffic
9,700vehicles a day, median
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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How it rides

58 corners over 45.3 miles — 1.28 a mile, and 116° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 43% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.

What it climbs

The road climbs 1,963 feet in total, 44 feet per mile, between 643 and 1,301 feet — 658 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 574 feet over 7.1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.4%. By Driftless standards that is steep.

Surface, speed and traffic

Paved end to end. 54% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 46% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 62% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 36% of the miles — the median is 9,700 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 38.6 with 37,100.

Worth knowing

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.

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