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WI 131 Clifton

WI 131 Clifton is 25.3 miles of loop riding through Monroe County in Wisconsin — Coulee Region, the coulees, ridge tops and river bluffs of south-west wisconsin. Moving time is about 31 minutes; allow 45 with stops — a quick spin. It is scored CS-4, Twisty: 45 corners, 199° of turning per mile, 1,507 feet of climbing. The roads it uses, in the order you ride them, are in the app.

Curviness: CS-4Twisty · 1.78/mi
Distance: 25.3 mi31 min riding
Corners: 4560% sharp · Tight
Climbing: 1,507 ft60 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

WI 131 through the Clifton area is one of the more technical and high-curviness state-highway segments in the set—tight, steep, and continuously engaging. It sits in the heart of the most dissected Coulee Region topography, where the road has no choice but to follow the complex land. The geometry itself is the attraction; pure riding quality is the point of the day. The measured scores reflect genuine and continuous geometric demand. Ideal for experienced riders who want maximum engagement with complex topography on a state highway that still feels intimate and landform-driven around Clifton. Services are limited; preparation matters. The satisfaction is in the continuous conversation between asphalt and the dissected plateau. Tight, continuous, and completely forced by the land. Bring focus.

How it rides

45 corners over 25.3 miles — 1.78 a mile, and 199° of turning for every mile ridden. That scores CS-4, Twisty on the five-point curviness scale. 60% of those corners are sharp ones, and the road reads as tight.

What it climbs

The road climbs 1,507 feet in total, 60 feet per mile, between 987 and 1,433 feet — 446 feet of relief. The longest single climb is 389 feet over 1.8 miles, and the steepest grade on it is 9.2%. 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 23% 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
Twisty

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.