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Mindoro Cut Loop
Mindoro Cut Loop is 73.5 miles of loop riding through La Crosse County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 96 minutes; allow 140 with stops — a full day. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 94 corners, 131° of turning per mile, 2,655 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.28/mi
- Distance
- 73.5 mi96 min riding
- Corners
- 9450% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 2,655 ft36 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopFull day
- Roads
- Backroads64% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,800vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
94 corners over 73.5 miles — 1.28 a mile, and 131° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 50% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 2,655 feet in total, 36 feet per mile, between 645 and 1,262 feet — 617 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 441 feet over 2.5 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 11.2%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 64% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 36% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 29% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 26% of the miles — the median is 1,800 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 72.6 with 12,100.
- Scenic cruise
- Backroads
- Loop
- River road
Worth knowing
- Busy stretch near mile 73 (12,100 vehicles a day)
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.