Nick Bain

whats your longest hill.

dannwilliams

There a a couple near River Falls, WI that I ride, one heading east of Bay City on WI 35, about 2 miles if memory serves me correctly, and another heading west from Diamond Bluff, again on WI 35, that is about 1 1/2 miles. I had the chance to ride a loaded touring bike up another heading north out of La Crescent, MN, that passes an overlook at the top that looks out over I 90 as it crosses the Mississippi River into MN.

Barrettscv 

Blue Mound State Park in WI. See: https://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/...fic/bluemound/

Start at the corner of County K and Mounds Park Rd north of the park. Take Mounds Park Rd south and follow it into the park.

It will climb about 800 ft in about 2 miles.

In the same area, take County F south into Brigham Park. It will climb about 800 ft in about 4 miles.

gomango

Taylors Falls on 8 back up to 95.

Goes past the Erickson Tree Farm.

Riding it next Saturday. I'll check for actual length, but probably a mile or two.

Wiswell

Coon Valley on the other side of the river near La Crescent. Also, there are a couple in the coulee region - near Wyalusing State Park outside Prairie Du Chien.

steve0257

I've never had the guts to try, but highway 14, either headed west out of Winona or east out of Stockton. Either way you have a little over 500 feet of climbing in 2 1/2 miles.

Captain Blight

HWY...61?.. South out of Duluth. About an 11 mile 3% grade, usually into a headwind. Oofff.

CPcyclist

I've done the climb out of Stockton and the climb out of Winona to Lewiston (my ex's hometown)... They were also fun to go down.

MattG42C

Lower Afton Road in Saint Paul (near Battle Creek Park,) starting from hwy 10/61 to Century Ave in Woodbury is 2+ miles at ~5% I believe.

robbyrocks12345

Theres a hill on grand haven beach that is about 3 miles to the top of pedaling in low gear. Today I got going 42.7 miles an hour on my way down, I could of gone faster but I need to get my chain adjusted and with that comes the fear of falling.

Nick Bain

On map my ride its not categorized but it shows 250 ft climb for the 2 miles. not sure how that equates in gradient form. Just rode it today.

canam73

250ft/(2 x 5280ft) = 2.37%

If you want to find climbs with their stats in your area sign up for a free Strava account and use the Explore map. I looked near the climb you did-if you want it a little more concentrated a little south from there on 10/61 take Highwood Ave. It will be around 4.4% for 1.3 miles.

ratz

The River valley in the Carver County MN; 30 minutes southwest of Minneapolis. Tons of great biking roads and it's almost impossible to ride and not do 1000ft of climbing, if you are any where near the river. It is usually more like 2500-4000ft. I regularly ride 1-3 milers that with section 6-14% grade. There are a least 3 roads over here that I won't even try yet; with sections 18-20% over 2 miles of climbing. It's good to have challenges.

Nick Bain

based on a quick scan on google I tend to believe those numbers are wildly innacurate. I have riden in Jordan but not since the ironman bike ride a few years ago.

ratz

Well Jordan would be the edge and if you go southeast of that it's mostly flat, boring poorly maintained roads.

We pretty much zigg and zagg in the valley when we want a lot of climbing (for this area). As I said it's impossible to do a 20 mile ride from my house without doing 1000ft of climbing and that's without trying. The river and the rideable roads force your hand. Unfortunately they are putting down that craptastic chip seal on all the best roads around here so riding isn't a smooth as it was 3 years ago.

I don't have time to map up a bunch of stuff; but look at:

1) Climb out of henderson. You can go steep on hwy19 for 2 miles + 269.
2) Climb out of henderson on secenic byway all the way to Ars Sport Air Strip for along stretch with a hard finish.
3) Climbing any of the Chaska / Carver hill loop sprints.

They are all here you just have to know where to find them; fortunately they are mostly the bikeable roads.

My above comment was true but probably poorly worded. You can do 1-3 miles climbs with SECTIONS of that with High Gradient; not sustained high gradient. However being able to regularly ride 60-80 miles with 4000+ climbing without have to overplan makes for good practice grounds.