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Grant River Bluffs

Grant River Bluffs is 56.8 miles of loop riding through Grant County in Wisconsin — Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west wisconsin. Moving time is about 67 minutes; allow 95 with stops — a half day. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 45 corners, 115° of turning per mile, 2,601 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-1Cruiser · 0.79/mi
Distance
56.8 mi67 min riding
Corners
4556% sharp · Tight
Climbing
2,601 ft46 ft/mi · Steep
Shape
LoopHalf day
Roads
93% back road7% state or US route
Traffic
Not countedno state counts on these roads
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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About this road

Above the Grant. Bridgeport, Beetown and Patch Grove, on the bluffs between the Grant River and the Mississippi. The bluffs through this country rise abruptly 300 to 400 feet above the valley floor. This is the least twisty of the twelve measured by degrees turned per mile. Least twisty is not gentle, though: better than half the corners it does have are sharp ones, and the climbing is steep.

How it rides

45 corners over 56.8 miles — 0.79 a mile, and 115° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 56% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.

What it climbs

The road climbs 2,601 feet in total, 46 feet per mile, between 626 and 1,189 feet — 563 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 428 feet over 1.2 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 12.7%. For this country that is steep.

Surface, speed and traffic

Paved end to end. 93% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 7% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 6% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 3% of these miles, too little to put a number on, which is itself a fair sign of how quiet they are.

Where to stop

Nothing listed on this road yet. It passes 8 places and we have nothing listed in any of them. Some of these places are a church and a grain bin rather than a village. Carry what you need, and start with a full tank.

We would rather say a road has nothing on it than fill the space with a guess — a stop that is not there is worse than no stop at all when you are thirty miles from anywhere.

Turn-by-turn directions and the spoken guidance 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.

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