ScenicCurvesElroy and the Juneau Ridges
Elroy and the Juneau Ridges is a tour: 82.6 miles, ridden out and back, through Juneau County in Wisconsin — The Dells Region. Moving time is about 109 minutes; allow 160 with stops. It is scored CS-5, Technical: 178 corners, 197° of turning per mile, 5,842 feet of climbing. Every mile of it is road that a route in the corpus already publishes — nothing here is new ground, and no route was changed to make it. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app. It rides out and turns at mile 41.3, so the second half is the first half the other way round — which on these roads is a different ride, and is still the same pavement.
- Curviness
- CS-5Technical · 2.15/mi
- Distance
- 82.6 mi109 min riding
- Corners
- 17840% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 5,842 ft71 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- Out and backFull day
- Surface
- 100% paved90% county and local
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55 · 32% of miles posted
- Traffic
- Not counteda tour's traffic is not yet measured
About this road
Ninety per cent of this tour is county and local road - the highest share of the five, and the reason it is the only one scored CS-5. It works the ridges north and west of Elroy on CTH G and CTH O and the township roads between them, turns, and comes back. Juneau County holds one of the five curviest roads in the whole corpus, and this is a day spent on roads of that kind rather than passing through them. Elroy is where the Elroy-Sparta State Trail starts - 32.5 miles of old railbed to Sparta through three rock tunnels and five small towns, which the Wisconsin DNR describes as considered the first rail-to-trail in the United States. The trail took the grade the railway had cut; the roads this tour uses did not, and that is the difference a rider feels in the climbing figure.
Sources: Wisconsin DNR, Elroy-Sparta State Trail.
The climb
What it is built from
Roads from 2 routes already in the corpus: CTH G Mauston, CTH G Elroy.
Ride it
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