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Hillsboro Mount Tabor
Hillsboro Mount Tabor is 15.6 miles of loop riding through Vernon County in Wisconsin — Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west wisconsin. Moving time is about 20 minutes; allow 30 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-3, Spirited: 22 corners, 196° of turning per mile, 860 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-3Spirited · 1.41/mi
- Distance
- 15.6 mi20 min riding
- Corners
- 2250% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 860 ft55 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- 59% back road41% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- Unpostedno posted limits recorded
About this road
This short loop around Hillsboro and Mount Tabor packs big climbing into limited distance. Hillsboro’s Czech heritage and the surrounding quiet hills are the main attractions. Compact and intense, the ride suits a focused effort. The landscape sits on the southern and eastern edge of the main Coulee Region character; absorbing both the physical challenge and the cultural setting of Hillsboro completes the experience. Ideal when a substantial elevation sample is wanted without a long approach, or as a sharp half-day that pairs meaningful climbing with a distinctive cultural destination. The combination of demand and Czech heritage makes the outing coherent and memorable. Climb hard around Mount Tabor, arrive in Hillsboro, the Czech Capital of Wisconsin. Both the effort and the culture are worth the short distance.
How it rides
22 corners over 15.6 miles — 1.41 a mile, and 196° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-3, Spirited on the five-point curviness scale. 50% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 860 feet in total, 55 feet per mile, between 982 and 1,375 feet — 393 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 251 feet over 1.1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.2%. For this country that is relentless.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 59% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 41% state or US route. No posted speed limits are recorded for these roads. 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. 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.
- 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.