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La Farge and the West Fork

La Farge and the West Fork is 44.4 miles of loop riding through Vernon and Richland Counties in Wisconsin — Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west wisconsin. Moving time is about 54 minutes; allow 80 with stops — a half morning. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 72 corners, 189° of turning per mile, 2,402 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-4Twisty · 1.62/mi
Distance
44.4 mi54 min riding
Corners
7253% sharp · Tight
Climbing
2,402 ft54 ft/mi · Relentless
Shape
LoopHalf morning
Roads
100% back road0% state or US route
Traffic
Not countedno state counts on these roads
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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About this road

The West Fork. La Farge, Viola and West Lima along the West Fork of the Kickapoo, a valley narrow enough that the road and the water share it for most of the distance. Tight, wooded and consistently twisty, with the corners spread evenly rather than bunched.

How it rides

72 corners over 44.4 miles — 1.62 a mile, and 189° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 53% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.

What it climbs

The road climbs 2,402 feet in total, 54 feet per mile, between 759 and 1,313 feet — 554 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 358 feet over 1.1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.7%. For this country that is relentless.

Surface, speed and traffic

Paved end to end. 100% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 0% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 27% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 4% 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 — 2 fuel, 2 food.

Longest stretch without fuel: 24.9 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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