ScenicCurvesHome / Routes / Wisconsin / Rock Springs Dellwood
Rock Springs Dellwood
Rock Springs Dellwood is 20.0 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 24 minutes; allow 35 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 12 corners, 110° of turning per mile, 762 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.
- Curviness
- CS-1Cruiser · 0.6/mi
- Distance
- 20.0 mi24 min riding
- Corners
- 1242% sharp · Mixed
- Climbing
- 762 ft38 ft/mi · Hilly
- Shape
- LoopQuick spin
- Roads
- 74% back road26% state or US route
- Traffic
- Not countedno state counts on these roads
- Speed limit
- 55 mphtypically 55
About this road
This short loop near Rock Springs offers easy access to Baraboo Hills scenery and a name—Dellwood—that hints at the nearby Wisconsin Dells, even though the true sandstone gorges lie farther east. Gentle to rolling terrain with a few steeper pitches makes the route a good warm-up or recovery option in a geologically rich neighborhood. Proximity invites a longer day that could include Devil’s Lake State Park or the Dells themselves. Traffic is light; the demand is modest. Ideal when the goal is a low-key exploration of the western Baraboo approach around Rock Springs and Dellwood, or as a gentle shakedown before committing to the harder climbs and technical sections of the core Baraboo or Coulee routes. The sense of being on the edge of deeper time is present even on the easier roads. Easy miles, older stone, room to decide what’s next.
How it rides
12 corners over 20.0 miles — 0.6 a mile, and 110° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 42% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.
What it climbs
The road climbs 762 feet in total, 38 feet per mile, between 861 and 1,221 feet — 360 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 186 feet over 0.8 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 6.9%. For this country that is hilly.
Surface, speed and traffic
Paved end to end. 74% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 26% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 29% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 1% 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
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.