Why this ride
From Nimigea de Sus it runs 241 km to Nimigea de Sus; allow about 4 h 44 of riding. It goes by way of Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului, Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului, Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 and back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Perisor - Corobana and Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 241 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 44
- 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. Perisor - Corobana
Țara Năsăudului, the Land of Năsăud, is a hilly corner of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, and it has a strong sense of its own identity. In the eighteenth century the Habsburgs organised the villages here into a military frontier district, with a Romanian border regiment that defended the empire's eastern edge in return for freedom from serfdom. The people of the area were proud of that status, and the schools and institutions founded with the regiment's funds helped create a remarkable tradition of learning. Two of Romania's best-loved writers grew up nearby: the poet George Coșbuc, born in the village that now bears his name, and the novelist Liviu Rebreanu, whose books describe the lives of Transylvanian peasants.
Read the complete Perisor - Corobana write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Perisor - Corobana is where the day begins. Next is Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului.
2. Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului
The countryside around Vârful Runcului is the landscape that two of Romania's best-loved writers came from, and it shows in their work. Liviu Rebreanu, born in the Năsăud area in 1885, set his novel Ion, about a peasant's hunger for land, in villages very like these, and the poet George Coșbuc grew up not far away in the valleys north of Năsăud. The hill itself, a rounded summit above the Someș valley, carries traces of the Roman watch system that once guarded the northern frontier of Dacia, part of the World Heritage listing since 2024, but its real charm is the view of the farmland Rebreanu wrote about.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului.
3. 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
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Planning note
about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului. Next is Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1.
4. Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1
The Someș river cuts through the low hills of north-western Transylvania in a series of wide loops, and at Cormeniș, a small village in Sălaj county, it passes below a bank where the Romans placed one of their watchtowers. This was the northern edge of the province of Dacia Porolissensis, the frontier facing the free Dacian tribes beyond, and a line of towers and small forts ran along the hills, linked by signals and patrols. The site at Râpa Malului, the riverbank cliff, is one of the many components of the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024. As so often on the Dacian limes, there is little to see apart from a slight rise in a field, but standing up there with the river below, you can easily imagine a small garrison watching the valley.
Read the complete Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1, about halfway. Next is back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului.
5. back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului.
6. back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului comes up about 197 km into the recorded legs. Next is Perisor - Corobana.
7. Perisor - Corobana
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Perisor - Corobana write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Perisor - Corobana closes the day.
Leg by leg
Perisor - Corobana to Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului
Perisor - Corobana → Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului to Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului
Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului → Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului to Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1
Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului → Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 to back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului
Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 → back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului to back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului
back through Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului → back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului to Perisor - Corobana
back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului → Perisor - Corobana is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.