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King Road Clifton
King Road Clifton is 22.8 miles of loop riding through Monroe 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 30 minutes; allow 45 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-5, Technical: 45 corners, 210° of turning per mile, 1,425 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-5Technical · 1.98/mi
- Distance
- 22.8 mi30 min riding
- Corners
- 4556% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 1,425 ft63 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- 100% back road0% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
45 corners over 22.8 miles — 1.98 a mile, and 210° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-5, Technical on the five-point curviness scale. 56% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,425 feet in total, 63 feet per mile, between 988 and 1,433 feet — 445 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 382 feet over 1.8 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.3%. For this country that is relentless.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 100% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 0% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 19% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 2% of these miles, too little to put a number on, which is itself a fair sign of how quiet they are.
- Backroads
- Loop
- Big climbing
- Twisty
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.