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Wauzeka Ridge Run

Wauzeka Ridge Run is 49.2 miles of loop riding through Crawford County in Wisconsin — Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west wisconsin. Moving time is about 60 minutes; allow 85 with stops — a half day. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 88 corners, 204° of turning per mile, 2,372 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness
CS-4Twisty · 1.79/mi
Distance
49.2 mi60 min riding
Corners
8845% sharp · Mixed
Climbing
2,372 ft48 ft/mi · Steep
Shape
LoopHalf day
Roads
77% back road23% state or US route
Traffic
Not countedno state counts on these roads
Speed limit
55 mphtypically 55
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About this road

The ridge between Seneca and Wauzeka. The Wisconsin's valley narrows to about a mile near Wauzeka, and the ridge road above it has correspondingly less room — tighter, steeper and with more direction changes per mile than the valley routes. Three quarters of it is on county road rather than state highway.

How it rides

88 corners over 49.2 miles — 1.79 a mile, and 204° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 45% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as mixed.

What it climbs

The road climbs 2,372 feet in total, 48 feet per mile, between 643 and 1,250 feet — 607 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 487 feet over 1.5 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 11.5%. For this country that is steep.

Surface, speed and traffic

Paved end to end. 77% of it is back road rather than highway, the other 23% state or US route. Posted speeds run to 55 mph, typically 55, measured across 50% of the route. State traffic counts cover only 2% of these miles, too little to put a number on, which is itself a fair sign of how quiet they are.

Where to stop

4 of the towns on this road have somewhere to stop — 5 bars.

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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