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Lynxville–Seneca–Ferryville Loop
Lynxville–Seneca–Ferryville Loop is 25.4 miles of loop riding through Crawford County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 31 minutes; allow 45 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 34 corners, 129° of turning per mile, 1,232 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.34/mi
- Distance
- 25.4 mi31 min riding
- Corners
- 3432% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 1,232 ft49 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- Mixed roads27% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,700vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
34 corners over 25.4 miles — 1.34 a mile, and 129° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 32% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,232 feet in total, 49 feet per mile, between 615 and 1,268 feet — 653 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 436 feet over 1.2 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 11.7%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 27% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 73% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 92% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 21% of the miles — the median is 1,700 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 23.2 with 2,300.
- Loop
Worth knowing
- Fuel sparse — top off before you go
- Grades to 12% — low gear on the descents
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.