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Retreat Ridge Twisties
Retreat Ridge Twisties is 19.8 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 26 minutes; allow 40 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-5, Technical: 39 corners, 192° of turning per mile, 1,238 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-5Technical · 1.97/mi
- Distance
- 19.8 mi26 min riding
- Corners
- 3960% sharp · Tight
- Climbing
- 1,238 ft62 ft/mi · Relentless
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- 100% back road0% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
About this road
Short and sharp. Under twenty miles between Retreat and West Prairie, with almost no filler — the route is nearly all the twisty part, which is why it earns a place despite the length. Second only to the Pine River route for the share of its corners that are sharp ones, and relentless for climbing over every mile of it.
How it rides
39 corners over 19.8 miles — 1.97 a mile, and 192° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-5, Technical on the five-point curviness scale. 60% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.
What it climbs
The road climbs 1,238 feet in total, 62 feet per mile, between 757 and 1,307 feet — 549 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 377 feet over 1 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 10.1%. 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 19% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 3% 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 4 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
- Twisty
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.