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WI 80 Richland Center
WI 80 Richland Center is 39.4 miles of loop riding through Richland County in Wisconsin — The Dells Region, the baraboo hills, the lower wisconsin river and the ridge roads between reedsburg and spring green. Moving time is about 52 minutes; allow 75 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-5, Technical: 82 corners, 198° of turning per mile, 1,819 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-5Technical · 2.08/mi
- Distance
- 39.4 mi52 min riding
- Corners
- 8264% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 1,819 ft46 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- LoopHalf morning
- Roads
- 75% back road25% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- Unpostedno posted limits recorded
How it rides
82 corners over 39.4 miles — 2.08 a mile, and 198° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-5, Technical on the five-point curviness scale. 64% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,819 feet in total, 46 feet per mile, between 696 and 1,103 feet — 407 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 276 feet over 1.5 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.6%. For this country that is steep.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 75% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 25% state or US route. No posted speed limits are recorded for these roads. State traffic counts cover only 6% of these miles, too little to put a number on, which is itself a fair sign of how quiet they are.
- Backroads
- Loop
- Big climbing
- Twisty
Turn-by-turn directions and the 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 NASA SRTM, traffic from the state transport department where counts exist.