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Wyalusing and the Confluence

Wyalusing and the Confluence is 21.3 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 27 minutes; allow 40 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 25 corners, 164° of turning per mile, 737 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-2Easy · 1.17/mi
Distance
21.3 mi27 min riding
Corners
2547% sharp · Tight
Climbing
737 ft35 ft/mi · Rolling
Shape
LoopQuick spin
Roads
66% back road34% state or US route
Traffic
Not countedno state counts on these roads
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 35
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About this road

The confluence. The shortest route in the set and the one with the most to look at: the point where the Wisconsin meets the Mississippi, which Marquette and Joliet recorded seeing on 17 June 1673, probably from one of the bluffs now inside Wyalusing State Park. Those bluffs stand 500 to 600 feet above the rivers, and the park has been public land since 1917. Short, easy, and worth stopping on.

How it rides

25 corners over 21.3 miles — 1.17 a mile, and 164° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 47% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.

What it climbs

The road climbs 737 feet in total, 35 feet per mile, between 619 and 1,210 feet — 592 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 543 feet over 2.1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.9%. For this country that is rolling.

Surface, speed and traffic

Paved end to end. 66% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 34% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 35, measured across 33% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 14% 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 fuel, 5 food, 3 bars.

Longest stretch without fuel: 18.4 miles. Worth knowing before you set off if your tank is small.

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.

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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