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Mormon Coulee to Chaseburg

Mormon Coulee to Chaseburg is 35.9 miles of point-to-point riding through La Crosse and Vernon Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 47 minutes; allow 70 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 62 corners, 175° of turning per mile, 2,000 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-4Twisty · 1.73/mi
Distance
35.9 mi47 min riding
Corners
6253% sharp · Tight
Climbing
2,000 ft56 ft/mi · Relentless
Shape
Point-to-pointHalf morning
Roads
Backroads64% county & local
Traffic
2,700vehicles a day, median
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 45
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How it rides

62 corners over 35.9 miles — 1.73 a mile, and 175° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 53% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.

What it climbs

The road climbs 2,000 feet in total, 56 feet per mile, between 637 and 1,300 feet — 664 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 560 feet over 2.3 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.3%. By Driftless standards that is relentless.

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 45, measured across 27% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 31% of the miles — the median is 2,700 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.0 with 19,600.

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.

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