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Stoddard–Chaseburg–Coon Valley Loop
Stoddard–Chaseburg–Coon Valley Loop is 29.4 miles of loop riding through La Crosse and Vernon Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 35 minutes; allow 50 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 55 corners, 178° of turning per mile, 1,221 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-4Twisty · 1.87/mi
- Distance
- 29.4 mi35 min riding
- Corners
- 5540% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 1,221 ft42 ft/mi · Hilly
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- Mixed roads19% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,500vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
55 corners over 29.4 miles — 1.87 a mile, and 178° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 40% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,221 feet in total, 42 feet per mile, between 637 and 1,274 feet — 637 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 549 feet over 3.2 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.4%. By Driftless standards that is hilly.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 19% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 81% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 39% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 21% of the miles — the median is 1,500 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 28.5 with 9,700.
- Sport ride
- Loop
- Low traffic
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.