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Mouth of the Kickapoo
Mouth of the Kickapoo is 58.9 miles of loop riding through Crawford County in Wisconsin — Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west wisconsin. Moving time is about 71 minutes; allow 105 with stops — a half day. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 104 corners, 193° of turning per mile, 3,170 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-4Twisty · 1.76/mi
- Distance
- 58.9 mi71 min riding
- Corners
- 10442% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 3,170 ft54 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopHalf day
- Roads
- 81% back road19% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
About this road
Where the Kickapoo finishes. Seneca, Eastman and Steuben sit above the last few miles of the Kickapoo before it joins the Wisconsin, and the roads here are cut into the sides of the hollows rather than laid over them. One of the harder rides in the set for climbing, and the corner count is earned on side roads rather than on the state highway.
How it rides
104 corners over 58.9 miles — 1.76 a mile, and 193° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 42% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 3,170 feet in total, 54 feet per mile, between 668 and 1,258 feet — 591 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 479 feet over 2.1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.8%. For this country that is relentless.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 81% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 19% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 41% 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
2 of the towns on this road have somewhere to stop — 3 bars.
- Eastman
BarMitchell's Liquor Box Tavern & Tackle · 25544 Falling Rock Road
BarBob and Sharon's Main St. Bar & Grill · 114 North Main Street
- Seneca
BarNo Bull Party Place
Listed alphabetically, and chosen by us rather than rated by anybody. The order you reach them, and the mile each one sits at, are in the app.
- Backroads
- Loop
- Big climbing
- Twisty
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.