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Kickapoo Valley Run: Ontario to Gays Mills

Kickapoo Valley Run: Ontario to Gays Mills is 38.1 miles of point-to-point riding through Vernon and Crawford Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 46 minutes; allow 65 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 64 corners, 132° of turning per mile, 1,565 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-4Twisty · 1.68/mi
Distance
38.1 mi46 min riding
Corners
6444% sharp · Mixed
Climbing
1,565 ft41 ft/mi · Hilly
Shape
Point-to-pointHalf morning
Roads
Highway miles1% county & local
Traffic
1,200vehicles a day, median
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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How it rides

64 corners over 38.1 miles — 1.68 a mile, and 132° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 44% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.

What it climbs

The road climbs 1,565 feet in total, 41 feet per mile, between 701 and 990 feet — 289 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 138 feet over 0.5 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.1%. By Driftless standards that is hilly.

Surface, speed and traffic

99.0% 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 12% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 34% of the miles — the median is 1,200 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 26.0 with 3,500.

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.

Nearby roads