CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Valea Vișeului it runs 422 km to Valea Vișeului; allow about 9 h 23 of riding. On the way it passes Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, Muncel - Cărămidă and back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. It crosses from Ukraine into Romania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 63 km this is Romania Maramures Wooden Churches Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The river Tisza runs fast and green out of the Ukrainian Carpathians, and for many kilometres it forms the border between Romania and Ukraine. On the Ukrainian bank, the forests of Kuziy and Trybushany are among the primeval beech woods protected in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and listed by UNESCO as part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. From the Romanian side, around Valea Vișeului, you look across the river at steep, wooded slopes where the trees have grown and died without interference for centuries.
Read the complete Kuziy - Trybushany write-up.
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Kuziy - Trybushany is where the day begins. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci comes up 62 km in. Next is Muncel - Cărămidă.
In northern Transylvania, where the Someș river winds through low hills between Dej and Beclean, the Roman Empire once ran out of land and patience. The province of Dacia, conquered by Trajan in the early second century, had a long and complicated frontier, and in 2024 parts of it were added to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Muncel–Cărămidă is one of those components, a small military site above the valley near Poiana Blenchii, part of a network of watchtowers and forts that guarded the northern edge of the province. The big fort of Porolissum, near Zalău to the west, with its reconstructed gate, gives you a sense of what the bigger garrisons looked like.
Read the complete Muncel - Cărămidă write-up.
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124 km in you reach Muncel - Cărămidă. Next is back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
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Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, late in the day. Next is Kuziy - Trybushany.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kuziy - Trybushany write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kuziy - Trybushany. That is the ride.
Kuziy - Trybushany → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Muncel - Cărămidă is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muncel - Cărămidă → back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Kuziy - Trybushany is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.