Trempealeau Ridge Loop

Trempealeau Ridge Loop is a tour: 81.3 miles, a loop, through La Crosse, Monroe and Trempealeau counties in Wisconsin — Coulee Region. Moving time is about 99 minutes; allow 145 with stops. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 132 corners, 148° of turning per mile, 3,172 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.

Curviness

CS-4Twisty · 1.62/mi

Distance

81.3 mi99 min riding

Corners

13243% sharp · Mixed

Climbing

3,172 ft39 ft/mi · Hilly

Shape

LoopFull day

Surface

100% paved52% county and local

Speed limit

55 mphtypically 55 · 31% of miles posted

Traffic

Not counteda tour's traffic is not yet measured

About this road

A loop between two rivers. The tour climbs the ridges behind Galesville and Arcadia, runs out on WIS 95 and WIS 93, and comes back down to the Mississippi at Trempealeau and Dodge before turning inland again. It is the gentlest of the two Coulee Region tours by climbing - 39 feet a mile against 54 - and the one of the five with the largest share of its miles on numbered state highway. At Trempealeau the road passes under Trempealeau Mountain, which the Wisconsin DNR records at 425 feet and describes as a steep-sided solid rock island - one of only three such islands along the Mississippi, and a landmark steamboat captains navigated by. It sits inside Perrot State Park, surrounded by the Mississippi and Trempealeau rivers.

Sources: Wisconsin DNR, Trempealeau Mountain State Natural Area.

The climb

What it is built from

Roads from 7 routes already in the corpus: Mindoro Cut Loop, Arcadia–Independence–Blair Loop, Perrot Ridge & River: Holmen to Arcadia, Northern Trempealeau Grand Loop, Trempealeau–Dodge–Arcadia Loop, Sparta to Trempealeau via Mindoro, Galesville–Ettrick–Holmen Loop.

Ride it

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