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CTH ZZ Gillingham
CTH ZZ Gillingham is 24.8 miles of loop riding through Richland 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 31 minutes; allow 45 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 26 corners, 143° of turning per mile, 1,488 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-2Easy · 1.05/mi
- Distance
- 24.8 mi31 min riding
- Corners
- 2638% sharp · Sweeping
- Climbing
- 1,488 ft60 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- 84% back road16% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
About this road
The Gillingham area roads in Richland County offer quiet climbing through scenic farmland and high relief. Short, relentless rises are characteristic of this corner of the southern Driftless around Gillingham. Low traffic and authentic rural character define the experience. The landscape—ridge farms and wooded valleys—is the main attraction; the ride is a pure sense-of-place outing rather than a hunt for single landmarks. The demand is honest without being extreme; the solitude is nearly complete. Ideal for riders who value continuous engagement with a working agricultural landscape and the ridge-and-valley rhythm that shapes it, without the need for famous parks or overlooks. Also a quiet counterpoint to the more culturally dense Spring Green or Baraboo routes. No spectacle—just the land around Gillingham and the roads that follow it.
How it rides
26 corners over 24.8 miles — 1.05 a mile, and 143° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 38% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as sweeping.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,488 feet in total, 60 feet per mile, between 753 and 1,188 feet — 435 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 251 feet over 1.1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.6%. 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 23% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 2% 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 1 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.
- Backroads
- Loop
- Big climbing
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.