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CTH G Spring Green

CTH G Spring Green is 36.2 miles of loop riding through Sauk County in Wisconsin — The Dells Region, the baraboo hills, the lower wisconsin river and the ridge roads between reedsburg and spring green. Moving time is about 43 minutes; allow 60 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 33 corners, 148° of turning per mile, 2,041 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-1Cruiser · 0.91/mi
Distance
36.2 mi43 min riding
Corners
3347% sharp · Tight
Climbing
2,041 ft56 ft/mi · Relentless
Shape
LoopHalf morning
Roads
84% back road16% state or US route
Traffic
Not countedno state counts on these roads
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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About this road

County G explores the steeper country near Spring Green with pitches and climbing that reflect the local relief. The cultural overlay of Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin, and the river-town history of Spring Green sits comfortably alongside the physical challenge. Combining the ride with a cultural stop in Spring Green turns a good physical day into a fuller experience of place. The climbing is honest; the scenery is continuous; the cultural density is high relative to the distance. An excellent pairing of effort and interpretation—ideal when the goal is to experience both the landform and the human response to it in a single coherent outing around Spring Green. Climb the hills, stop in town, see why Wright stayed. The landscape does the persuading.

How it rides

33 corners over 36.2 miles — 0.91 a mile, and 148° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser 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 2,041 feet in total, 56 feet per mile, between 716 and 1,189 feet — 473 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 249 feet over 0.9 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 8.9%. For this country that is relentless.

Surface, speed and traffic

Paved end to end. 84% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 16% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 34% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 6% of these miles, too little to put a number on, which is itself a fair sign of how quiet they are.

Where to stop

1 of the towns on this road has somewhere to stop — 1 fuel, 4 food, 2 bars.

Longest stretch without fuel: 29.3 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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