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Westby–Chaseburg–Genoa Ridge Descent

Westby–Chaseburg–Genoa Ridge Descent is 39.2 miles of point-to-point riding through Vernon County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 48 minutes; allow 70 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 62 corners, 143° of turning per mile, 1,287 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-3Spirited · 1.58/mi
Distance
39.2 mi48 min riding
Corners
6240% sharp · Mixed
Climbing
1,287 ft33 ft/mi · Rolling
Shape
Point-to-pointHalf morning
Roads
Mixed roads35% county & local
Traffic
1,400vehicles a day, median
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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How it rides

62 corners over 39.2 miles — 1.58 a mile, and 143° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited 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 1,287 feet in total, 33 feet per mile, between 625 and 1,323 feet — 698 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 473 feet over 2.5 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.1%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.

Surface, speed and traffic

87.7% paved — the rest is gravel or seal coat, so check the surface before you commit. 35% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 65% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 61% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 32% of the miles — the median is 1,400 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 6.3 with 12,700.

Worth knowing

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.

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