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Rock Springs LaRue

Rock Springs LaRue is 15.8 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 20 minutes; allow 30 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-2, Easy: 19 corners, 143° of turning per mile, 886 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness: CS-2Easy · 1.2/mi
Distance: 15.8 mi20 min riding
Corners: 1941% sharp · Mixed
Climbing: 886 ft56 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

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About this road

This compact loop in the Rock Springs–LaRue area packs big climbing into a short distance and sits at the western approach to the Baraboo Hills. Springs, ridges, and quiet roads are the main features. A good choice for a short, hard effort in geologically rich country. Even when the route stays on sedimentary roads, the presence of the ancient range is felt in the surrounding topography around Rock Springs and LaRue. Traffic is light; the demand is concentrated. Works well as a sharp opener or closer to a longer Baraboo-focused day, or as a stand-alone intensity sample when time is limited but the desire for substantial vertical gain remains. The sense of approaching deep time is present throughout. Climb hard, feel the older stone, decide what’s next.

How it rides

19 corners over 15.8 miles — 1.2 a mile, and 143° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-2, Easy on the five-point curviness scale. 41% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.

What it climbs

The road climbs 886 feet in total, 56 feet per mile, between 863 and 1,307 feet — 444 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 314 feet over 0.9 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 41% 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 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.