Hines Road
3240.5 m · net rise 31.2 m · total ascent 145.4 m · overall 1.0% · confidence: good · Wolcott · Vermont · share
Shape: stinger — 70% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 272 m.
Found purely from mapping and LiDAR data, and not yet matched against books, race records or lists — it may be well known to locals under a name we've never heard. It was cross-checked against the OS road network, surface models and map tags, but a discovery can still be an artifact of the terrain model or the map. Treat it as a well-evidenced hypothesis until someone has ridden it. If you know this road, tell us what you found — photographs, corrections and local knowledge all welcome; the map links below let you scout it first.
≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 39% of this route — detected by comparing the surface model (DSM, treetops and rooftops) against the terrain model (DTM, bare ground). Under cover the bare-ground model is built from fewer laser returns, so metre-scale readings can wobble; maxima whose window sits in a covered zone are marked ≈ below — less certain — the flag does not say whether the true value is higher or lower. Longer windows average over more clean ground and are steadier.
Gradient ladder what do windows mean?
| Window | Maximum | Located at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 m (diagnostic) | ≈51% | 549–551 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 57.6% at 617–619 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈46% | 548–551 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 55.5% at 616–619 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈42% | 572–577 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 51.8% at 615–620 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈37% | 568–578 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 41.5% at 612–622 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 20 m | ≈31.3% | 557–577 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 35.8% at 569–589 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 25 m | ≈30.6% | 554–579 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 34.2% at 564–589 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 50 m | ≈27.1% | 529–579 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 31.2% at 571–621 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 100 m | ≈23.2% | 479–579 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 29.7% at 548–648 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
Map
Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap
This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.
Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.
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Provenance
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"notes": "Coarse pass: max 25.1% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 30.8 m over 3240 m way. KEPT at seed extent: no ascending continuation (min_avg=2.0%). ADOPTED (NE wave 1, 2026-08-25): qualified-steep. Wales dials per PRODUCTION 'US ADOPTION DIALS'.",
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