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Perrot Ridge & River: Holmen to Arcadia
Perrot Ridge & River: Holmen to Arcadia is 47.3 miles of point-to-point riding through La Crosse and Trempealeau Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 57 minutes; allow 85 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 49 corners, 96° of turning per mile, 1,430 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.04/mi
- Distance
- 47.3 mi57 min riding
- Corners
- 4935% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 1,430 ft30 ft/mi · Gentle
- Shape
- Point-to-pointHalf morning
- Roads
- Highway miles7% county & local
- Traffic
- 4,800vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
49 corners over 47.3 miles — 1.04 a mile, and 96° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 35% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,430 feet in total, 30 feet per mile, between 644 and 1,246 feet — 602 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 438 feet over 2.0 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.8%. By Driftless standards that is gentle.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 7% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 93% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 50% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 30% of the miles — the median is 4,800 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.0 with 10,100.
- Scenic cruise
- One way
Worth knowing
- Busy stretch near mile 0 (10,100 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.