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Wisconsin River to Kickapoo
Wisconsin River to Kickapoo is 38.5 miles of point-to-point riding through Crawford County in Wisconsin — the Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west Wisconsin. Moving time is about 45 minutes; allow 65 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 68 corners, 149° of turning per mile, 1,759 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-4Twisty · 1.77/mi
- Distance
- 38.5 mi45 min riding
- Corners
- 6831% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 1,759 ft46 ft/mi · Steep
- Shape
- Point-to-pointHalf morning
- Roads
- Mixed roads23% county & local
- Traffic
- 800vehicles a day, median
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
How it rides
68 corners over 38.5 miles — 1.77 a mile, and 149° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 31% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,759 feet in total, 46 feet per mile, between 644 and 1,252 feet — 608 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 538 feet over 3.3 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.5%. By Driftless standards that is steep.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 23% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 77% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 61% of the route. Where traffic counts exist — 20% of the miles — the median is 800 vehicles a day, busiest at mile 18.6 with 2,100.
- Sport ride
- One way
- 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.