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US 14;WI 60 Spring Green

US 14;WI 60 Spring Green is 18.0 miles of loop riding through Sauk and Richland Counties 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 21 minutes; allow 30 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-1, Cruiser: 5 corners, 46° of turning per mile, 67 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-1Cruiser · 0.28/mi
Distance
18.0 mi21 min riding
Corners
554% sharp · Tight
Climbing
67 ft4 ft/mi · Gentle
Shape
LoopQuick spin
Roads
54% back road46% 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 short loop using US 14 and WI 60 near Spring Green is more highway than pure back road, yet it remains scenic and offers easy logistics. The interest is more cultural and riverine than pure elevation. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and the Wisconsin River landscape are the main draws. Making the cultural stops the focus and treating the riding as connecting tissue produces a balanced day. The modest physical demand makes the route accessible; the cultural density is high. The practical choice when the primary goal is to experience Spring Green’s architectural and landscape heritage with enough riding to feel the place on two wheels, without the technical or elevation commitment of the steeper county-road loops. Ride the connections around Spring Green, stop for the stories at Taliesin. The land and the buildings do the persuading.

How it rides

5 corners over 18.0 miles — 0.28 a mile, and 46° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-1, Cruiser on the five-point curviness scale. 54% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.

What it climbs

The road climbs 67 feet in total, 4 feet per mile, between 704 and 749 feet — 45 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 21 feet over 0.3 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 1.6%. For this country that is gentle.

Surface, speed and traffic

Paved end to end. 54% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 46% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 71% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 13% 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 — 1 fuel, 4 food, 2 bars.

Longest stretch without fuel: 9.8 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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