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Deerfield Road

1165.6 m · net rise 54.5 m · total ascent 74.3 m · overall 4.7% · confidence: needs confirmation · New Gloucester · Maine · share

Shape: stepped — 49% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 72 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 state road inventory, OpenStreetMap and the point-cloud evidence for a graded road bed, 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.

needs review max10 over 40 — treat short-window maxima here as provisional.

≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 87% 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)	≈46%	448–450 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 65.5% at 280–282 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)	≈46%	447–450 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 57.5% at 279–282 m across a structure — excluded
5 m	≈45%	446–451 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 47.5% at 277–282 m across a structure — excluded
10 m	≈41%	442–452 m	under overhead cover
20 m	≈34.0%	440–460 m	under overhead cover
25 m	≈32.0%	431–456 m	under overhead cover
50 m	≈27.2%	417–467 m	under overhead cover
100 m	≈18.3%	381–481 m	under overhead cover

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.

Access: Held from rankings 2026-09-04 (D19): steep under cover, but the point cloud reads flank/ambiguous/absent under the 25 m maximum, or no cloud covers it — re-line queue.

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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Deerfield Road LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

The profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m.

Measurement card

Elevation	USGS 3DEP (The National Map) — USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, ME_SouthCentral_B22 (collected 2022)
Resolution / CRS	1.0 m grid, EPSG:26919; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
Tiles	x38y488
Road centreline	/mnt/HC_Volume_106727764/site-corpus-fresh/us/deerfield-road/deerfield-road.geojson
Quality status	measurement confidence U; review flags: max10 over 40
Analysis	OCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run canopy-260903, calculated 2026-09-03

Provenance

{
  "analysis_version": "0.1.0",
  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
  "gradient_windows_m": [
    5.0,
    10.0,
    20.0,
    25.0,
    50.0,
    100.0
  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
    2.0,
    3.0
  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:26919",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/usa/me/USGS_1M_19_x38y488_ME_SouthCentral_B22.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-03T08:22:06+00:00",
  "road_source": "/mnt/HC_Volume_106727764/site-corpus-fresh/us/deerfield-road/deerfield-road.geojson",
  "run_id": "canopy-260903",
  "elevation_provider": "USGS 3DEP (The National Map)",
  "elevation_licence": "Public domain \u2014 USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey",
  "elevation_dataset": "USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, ME_SouthCentral_B22 (collected 2022)",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "x38y488"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "canopy_source": {
    "kind": "ept_corridor_max_return",
    "ept_source": "https://usgs-lidar-public.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/USGS_LPC_ME_NRCS_Lot4_2013_LAS_2015",
    "ept_crs": "EPSG:3857",
    "station_coverage": 0.997,
    "cell_ground_m": 1.0,
    "nodes_failed": 0
  },
  "door_status": "D16 hold (2026-09-04): steep under cover but the 5 m/10 m windows exceed the plausibility bounds \u2014 clears no door, kept live for Peter's look",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing.html"
}