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Lower Kickapoo: Wauzeka to Soldiers Grove
Lower Kickapoo: Wauzeka to Soldiers Grove is 28.4 miles of point-to-point riding through Crawford County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 34 minutes; allow 50 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 46 corners, 134° of turning per mile, 1,274 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-4Twisty · 1.62/mi
- Distance
- 28.4 mi34 min riding
- Corners
- 4633% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 1,274 ft45 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- Point-to-pointQuick spin
- Roads
- Highway miles0% county & local
- Traffic
- 800vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
46 corners over 28.4 miles — 1.62 a mile, and 134° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 33% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,274 feet in total, 45 feet per mile, between 645 and 1,174 feet — 528 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 521 feet over 4.9 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.1%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
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 22% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 21% of the miles — the median is 800 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.9 with 2,100.
- Sport ride
- One way
- Low traffic
Worth knowing
- Fuel sparse — top off before you go
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.