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Rush Creek Bluffs Loop
Rush Creek Bluffs Loop is 39.8 miles of loop riding through Crawford 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-2, Easy: 44 corners, 106° of turning per mile, 1,567 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.11/mi
- Distance
- 39.8 mi47 min riding
- Corners
- 4434% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 1,567 ft40 ft/mi · Hilly
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Mixed roads27% county & local
- Traffic
- 2,700vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
44 corners over 39.8 miles — 1.11 a mile, and 106° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 34% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,567 feet in total, 40 feet per mile, between 613 and 1,206 feet — 593 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 359 feet over 1.4 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.4%. By Driftless standards that is hilly.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 27% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 73% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 73% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 26% of the miles — the median is 2,700 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 1.5 with 3,000.
- Loop
Worth knowing
- Fuel sparse — top off before you go
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.