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Terrytown Road Baraboo

Terrytown Road Baraboo is 18.9 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 22 minutes; allow 30 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 8 corners, 100° of turning per mile, 657 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-1Cruiser · 0.42/mi
Distance
18.9 mi22 min riding
Corners
861% sharp · Tight
Climbing
657 ft35 ft/mi · Rolling
Shape
LoopQuick spin
Roads
97% back road3% state or US route
Traffic
Not countedno state counts on these roads
Speed limit
Unpostedno posted limits recorded
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About this road

Quiet roads on the outskirts of Baraboo stay close to the iconic Devil’s Lake landscape. Short and relatively gentle, the loop is an easy add-on to a park visit. The ancient rock is never far; roadcuts and distant ridges continually remind you of deep time. Baraboo itself carries a lively small-city character and the historical association with the Ringling Brothers. Pairing the ride with time at Devil’s Lake State Park completes the geological and scenic picture. The modest demand makes the route accessible to a wide range of fitness levels while still delivering authentic regional texture and proximity to one of Wisconsin’s most significant natural landmarks. The ideal gentle approach or recovery spin for anyone making Devil’s Lake and Baraboo the centerpiece of a longer stay. Easy miles, old rock, and a lake that shouldn’t exist.

How it rides

8 corners over 18.9 miles — 0.42 a mile, and 100° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 61% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.

What it climbs

The road climbs 657 feet in total, 35 feet per mile, between 877 and 1,208 feet — 331 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 300 feet over 1.7 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.9%. For this country that is rolling.

Surface, speed and traffic

Paved end to end. 97% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 3% state or US route. No posted speed limits are recorded for these roads. 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

1 of the towns on this road has somewhere to stop — 4 fuel, 2 bars.

Longest stretch without fuel: 17.4 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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