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Sparta to Trempealeau via Mindoro
Sparta to Trempealeau via Mindoro is 46.6 miles of point-to-point riding through Monroe, 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-1, Cruiser: 41 corners, 81° of turning per mile, 1,514 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-1Cruiser · 0.88/mi
- Distance
- 46.6 mi57 min riding
- Corners
- 4149% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 1,514 ft33 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- Point-to-pointHalf morning
- Roads
- Mixed roads36% county & local
- Traffic
- 2,100vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
41 corners over 46.6 miles — 0.88 a mile, and 81° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 49% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,514 feet in total, 33 feet per mile, between 645 and 1,115 feet — 470 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 343 feet over 1.7 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.8%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 36% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 64% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 52% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 28% of the miles — the median is 2,100 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 35.8 with 8,200.
- Scenic cruise
- Easy logistics
- One way
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.