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Norwalk–Ontario–Wildcat Short Twisties
Norwalk–Ontario–Wildcat Short Twisties is 29.4 miles of loop riding through Monroe and Vernon Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 38 minutes; allow 55 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 40 corners, 127° of turning per mile, 953 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.36/mi
- Distance
- 29.4 mi38 min riding
- Corners
- 4045% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 953 ft33 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- Backroads56% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,100vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
40 corners over 29.4 miles — 1.36 a mile, and 127° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 45% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 953 feet in total, 33 feet per mile, between 866 and 1,406 feet — 539 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 336 feet over 3.0 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 8.2%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 56% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 44% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 15% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 22% of the miles — the median is 1,100 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 18.1 with 2,100.
- Backroads
- Loop
- Low traffic
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.