ScenicCurves is the adventure route mapping app that finds the country roads worth driving—and riding.
Built on a proprietary algorithm rooted in the founder’s own years of hunting for the hidden gems of the open road, ScenicCurves surfaces the scenic, curvy routes most people never notice… right in their own backyard.
We’re starting where the story began: the Upper Midwest. More than 4,000 miles of carefully curated scenic and curvy roads are already waiting for you. Every route delivers adventure and awe—no matter how many times you drive it. And when you share the ride with someone else, the whole experience becomes new again.
The open road is still out there.
What are you waiting for?
Every arc of 30° or more is counted, mile by mile, off the road geometry itself. That number puts a route on a five-point scale, and the scale is what lets a rider pick a Sunday morning rather than read 130 descriptions. The corpus lands where a good set should: thin at both ends, thick in the middle.
Every route here is measured from map data: the corners counted off the geometry, the climb off the elevation model, the traffic off the state count sites, the surface and the fuel and food off what is mapped. That is what the numbers mean. What no map knows is the road this morning — the gravel a county laid last week, the bridge that is out, the frost in a north-facing corner. Ride it the way you would ride any road you have not seen before.
21 counties and 251 towns these roads pass, across 4 regions in 3 states. Every one of the 130 routes carries a write-up of its own — the landform that made the road bend the way it does, who settled the valley, what is worth stopping for.
And 7 long tours. Each one is a full day of 72 to 127 miles stitched together from roads already in here, crossing regions and in three cases three states. They are part of a subscription rather than one of the free three, because a single tour draws on as many as twenty-two of the routes it is built from. 610 miles of them.
The Upper Iowa and the Yellow River, the Mississippi overlooks at Lansing, and the Czech and Norwegian country inland.
The Root River valley, the bluffs above Winona, and the Amish ridges around Harmony and Lanesboro.
The one the ice did reach: the Baraboo Hills left standing in it, the lower Wisconsin River, and the ridge roads between Reedsburg and Spring Green.
Ridge tops out of La Crosse, the coulees dropping away on both sides, and the Kickapoo behind Wildcat Mountain.
You do not have to be at the trailhead. The app finds where you joined the road and which way you are pointing, and picks the instructions up from there. Pick a route from a motel car park and it counts you down to it first.
Roads, water, woodland and town names travel inside the page. No tiles to fetch, no account to sign into, nothing to go wrong in a coulee with one bar.
Both directions of every route, because a route ridden the other way is a different route. Two prompts per corner: one to set up, one at the turn.
Every route has a write-up: the geology that made it bend the way it does, who settled the valley, what is worth stopping for. Written from public sources — state geological surveys, historical societies, the National Register — and free to read before you decide, on all 130.
Corners a mile, climb per mile, traffic counts, how much of it is county road, where the fuel is. Compare 130 routes in one table and pick one.
Give a route your own score once you have ridden it, and write down what the map got wrong — a closed bridge, a gravel detour, a route that belongs in here and is not.
Three routes, once, in full — every score, the turn-by-turn, the offline map. They do not renew.
All 130 routes and all 7 tours, both directions, and everything added while the year runs.
The same, month to month, for a season of riding or a week of holiday.
Browse all 130 routes — every route with its distance, curviness score, corner count and climb, by state: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa.
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