Why this ride
A 115 km round trip from Mirşid - roughly 2 h 40 in the saddle. The stops in between: Treznea - Cărbunarea, Hurez - La Frasin 1 and back through Treznea - Cărbunarea. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor and Hurez - La Frasin 1
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 115 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 40
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor
Roman Dacia's north-western frontier ran along the crest of the Meseș mountains, and the hill country around Mirșid, east of Zalău, is laced with its traces: watchtowers, earthworks and small forts placed so that each could see the next. In 2024 these remains became part of the World Heritage listing for the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia. The name of the spot, La Strâmtură by the wolves' brook, gives a fair idea of its character: a narrow place in the hills, wooded and quiet, where the eye has to work to pick out a low mound or a ditch in the grass.
Read the complete Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor is where the day begins. Next is Treznea - Cărbunarea.
2. Treznea - Cărbunarea
Treznea is a quiet village in the hills southeast of Zalău, the kind of place where the loudest sound is a cockerel or a tractor. Yet its name carries a heavy weight in Romanian memory. In September 1940, shortly after northern Transylvania was transferred to Hungary under the Second Vienna Award, Hungarian troops entering the area killed dozens of villagers here, Romanians and Jews, and burned houses. A memorial in the village commemorates the victims. It is a sombre reminder that the beautiful hills of Transylvania have seen terrible things.
Read the complete Treznea - Cărbunarea write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Treznea - Cărbunarea comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hurez - La Frasin 1.
3. Hurez - La Frasin 1
This corner of Sălaj sits along the Roman frontier of Dacia, which makes it a more serious place than its gentle hills suggest. West of Zalău the Meseș mountains rise in a long wooded ridge, and through them runs a natural gate, the Meseș Pass, which the Romans fortified as part of their northern defences. The great site of Porolissum, with its fort, civil settlement and amphitheatre, stands on a ridge nearby, and the watchtowers and small works scattered across the hills belong to the same system.
Read the complete Hurez - La Frasin 1 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Hurez - La Frasin 1. Next is back through Treznea - Cărbunarea.
4. back through Treznea - Cărbunarea
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Treznea - Cărbunarea write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Treznea - Cărbunarea, late in the day. Next is Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor.
5. Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor to Treznea - Cărbunarea
Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor → Treznea - Cărbunarea is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Treznea - Cărbunarea to Hurez - La Frasin 1
Treznea - Cărbunarea → Hurez - La Frasin 1 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurez - La Frasin 1 to back through Treznea - Cărbunarea
Hurez - La Frasin 1 → back through Treznea - Cărbunarea is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Treznea - Cărbunarea to Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor
back through Treznea - Cărbunarea → Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.