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Tomah Southern Loop
Tomah Southern Loop is 43.9 miles of loop riding through Monroe County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 56 minutes; allow 80 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 59 corners, 127° of turning per mile, 1,724 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.34/mi
- Distance
- 43.9 mi56 min riding
- Corners
- 5956% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 1,724 ft39 ft/mi · Hilly
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- Backroads54% county & local
- Traffic
- 2,400vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
59 corners over 43.9 miles — 1.34 a mile, and 127° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 56% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,724 feet in total, 39 feet per mile, between 931 and 1,433 feet — 502 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 364 feet over 2.7 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 8.8%. By Driftless standards that is hilly.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 54% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 46% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 48% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 29% of the miles — the median is 2,400 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.0 with 7,300.
- Backroads
- Loop
Worth knowing
- Amish buggies — slow on blind crests
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.