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Kickapoo North: Wilton to Viroqua

Kickapoo North: Wilton to Viroqua is 35.7 miles of point-to-point riding through Monroe and Vernon Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 42 minutes; allow 60 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 60 corners, 145° of turning per mile, 2,041 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-4Twisty · 1.68/mi
Distance
35.7 mi42 min riding
Corners
6045% sharp · Mixed
Climbing
2,041 ft57 ft/mi · Relentless
Shape
Point-to-pointHalf morning
Roads
Highway miles1% county & local
Traffic
1,400vehicles a day, median
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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How it rides

60 corners over 35.7 miles — 1.68 a mile, and 145° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 45% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.

What it climbs

The road climbs 2,041 feet in total, 57 feet per mile, between 794 and 1,283 feet — 489 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 401 feet over 2.0 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.3%. By Driftless standards that is relentless.

Surface, speed and traffic

99.3% paved; the odd short stretch is gravel or seal coat. 1% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 99% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 65% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 29% of the miles — the median is 1,400 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 35.7 with 3,400.

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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