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Norskedalen–Amish Ridge Loop
Norskedalen–Amish Ridge Loop is 40.2 miles of loop riding through Vernon County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 50 minutes; allow 70 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-5, Technical: 86 corners, 183° of turning per mile, 1,336 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-5Technical · 2.14/mi
- Distance
- 40.2 mi50 min riding
- Corners
- 8636% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 1,336 ft34 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Mixed roads37% county & local
- Traffic
- 2,300vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
86 corners over 40.2 miles — 2.14 a mile, and 183° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-5, Technical on the five-point curviness scale. 36% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,336 feet in total, 34 feet per mile, between 723 and 1,367 feet — 644 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 292 feet over 1.6 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.0%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 37% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 63% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 50% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 23% of the miles — the median is 2,300 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 12.2 with 6,700.
- Sport ride
- Loop
Worth knowing
- Amish buggies — slow on blind crests
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.