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Rock Springs LaRue
Rock Springs LaRue is 15.8 miles of loop riding through Sauk County in Wisconsin — The Dells Region, the baraboo hills, the lower wisconsin river and the ridge roads between reedsburg and spring green. Moving time is about 20 minutes; allow 30 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 19 corners, 143° of turning per mile, 886 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.2/mi
- Distance
- 15.8 mi20 min riding
- Corners
- 1941% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 886 ft56 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- 100% back road0% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
19 corners over 15.8 miles — 1.2 a mile, and 143° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 41% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 886 feet in total, 56 feet per mile, between 863 and 1,307 feet — 444 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 314 feet over 0.9 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.7%. For this country that is relentless.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 100% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 0% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 41% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 3% of these miles, too little to put a number on, which is itself a fair sign of how quiet they are.
- Backroads
- Loop
- Big climbing
Turn-by-turn directions and the 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 NASA SRTM, traffic from the state transport department where counts exist.