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Trempealeau–Dodge–Arcadia Loop
Trempealeau–Dodge–Arcadia Loop is 46.8 miles of loop riding through Trempealeau County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 64 minutes; allow 95 with stops — a half day. It is scored CS-5, Technical: 101 corners, 183° of turning per mile, 1,770 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-5Technical · 2.16/mi
- Distance
- 46.8 mi64 min riding
- Corners
- 10139% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 1,770 ft38 ft/mi · Hilly
- Shape
- LoopHalf day
- Roads
- Backroads79% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,500vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
101 corners over 46.8 miles — 2.16 a mile, and 183° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-5, Technical on the five-point curviness scale. 39% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,770 feet in total, 38 feet per mile, between 701 and 1,338 feet — 638 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 549 feet over 5.1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.0%. By Driftless standards that is hilly.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 79% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 22% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 18% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 23% of the miles — the median is 1,500 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 22.0 with 7,600.
- Backroads
- Loop
- River road
- Low traffic
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.