Why this ride
A 281 km round trip from Mirşid - roughly 5 h 23 in the saddle. The stops in between: Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului, Salva - Roata lui Todoran and back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor and Salva - Roata lui Todoran
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 281 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 23
- 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 Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului.
2. Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului
Somewhere above the Someș valley, on a hill the villagers call Dealul Hanului, the inn hill, the Romans kept watch over the northern edge of their province of Dacia. After Trajan's conquest in 106, the new province had to be defended on all sides, and its northern frontier, in what the Romans called Dacia Porolissensis, ran through these hills between the Meseș mountains and the upper Someș. Forts, watchtowers and earthworks controlled the valleys, and Căpâlna, near the village of Gâlgău, is one of the many small sites that formed that network, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia that Romania has put forward for UNESCO listing.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Salva - Roata lui Todoran.
3. Salva - Roata lui Todoran
Salva is a railway village. Trains for the Maramureș line split off here from the route along the Someșul Mare, and the place has a slightly busy, crossroads feel for a commune of a little over four thousand people. The site called Roata lui Todoran, Todoran's wheel, sits right by the village in the Năsăud country of Bistrița-Năsăud, a region that marked the northern edge of Roman Dacia and later formed part of a Habsburg border regiment. Few places in Transylvania have been a frontier for quite so long.
Read the complete Salva - Roata lui Todoran write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 141 km into the recorded legs you reach Salva - Roata lui Todoran. Next is back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului.
4. back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului, 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 Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului
Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor → Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului to Salva - Roata lui Todoran
Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului → Salva - Roata lui Todoran is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Salva - Roata lui Todoran to back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului
Salva - Roata lui Todoran → back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului to Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor
back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului → Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.