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Wildcat Mountain Twisties
Wildcat Mountain Twisties is 25.6 miles of point-to-point riding through Monroe and Vernon Counties in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 31 minutes; allow 45 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 44 corners, 163° of turning per mile, 934 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-4Twisty · 1.72/mi
- Distance
- 25.6 mi31 min riding
- Corners
- 4436% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 934 ft37 ft/mi · Rolling
- Shape
- Point-to-pointQuick spin
- Roads
- Highway miles0% county & local
- Traffic
- 1,500vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
44 corners over 25.6 miles — 1.72 a mile, and 163° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 36% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 934 feet in total, 37 feet per mile, between 863 and 1,367 feet — 504 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 342 feet over 2.4 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 7.6%. By Driftless standards that is rolling.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 0% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 100% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 3% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 25% of the miles — the median is 1,500 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 0.0 with 4,100.
- Sport ride
- One way
- Low traffic
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.