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Kickapoo–Hillsboro Grand Loop
Kickapoo–Hillsboro Grand Loop is 41.3 miles of loop riding through Vernon County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 49 minutes; allow 70 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 73 corners, 163° of turning per mile, 2,040 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-4Twisty · 1.77/mi
- Distance
- 41.3 mi49 min riding
- Corners
- 7340% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 2,040 ft50 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Highway miles0% county & local
- Traffic
- 900vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
73 corners over 41.3 miles — 1.77 a mile, and 163° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty 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 2,040 feet in total, 50 feet per mile, between 794 and 1,345 feet — 551 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 264 feet over 1.6 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.1%. By Driftless standards that is relentless.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 0% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 100% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 27% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 31% of the miles — the median is 900 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 11.9 with 2,200.
- Sport ride
- Loop
- Big climbs
- Low traffic
Worth knowing
- Amish buggies — slow on blind crests
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.