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Trempealeau River Valley
Trempealeau River Valley is 32.3 miles of point-to-point riding through Trempealeau County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 38 minutes; allow 55 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 28 corners, 86° of turning per mile, 598 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-1Cruiser · 0.87/mi
- Distance
- 32.3 mi38 min riding
- Corners
- 2857% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 598 ft19 ft/mi · Gentle
- Shape
- Point-to-pointQuick spin
- Roads
- Mixed roads27% county & local
- Traffic
- 3,500vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
28 corners over 32.3 miles — 0.87 a mile, and 86° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 57% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 598 feet in total, 19 feet per mile, between 702 and 1,040 feet — 339 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 297 feet over 8.9 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 6.7%. By Driftless standards that is gentle.
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 — 29% of the miles — the median is 3,500 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 9.1 with 6,800.
- Scenic cruise
- One way
- River road
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.