CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Velykyi Bereznyi it runs 633 km to Velykyi Bereznyi; allow about 10 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Ruská Bystrá, Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy, Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa and back through Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy. It crosses Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 25 km this is Bieszczady Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Rožok is a small patch of very old forest on the eastern edge of Slovakia, close to the borders with Poland and Ukraine, and it is one of the components of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a World Heritage Site that stretches across many countries. Here, on a steep slope above the Starina reservoir, beech trees have grown undisturbed for centuries, some of them huge, with smooth grey trunks and wide canopies, and fallen trees lie rotting on the forest floor, feeding fungi, insects and birds.
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Rožok is where the day begins. Next is Ruská Bystrá.
Hidden in a fold of the Vihorlat hills near the Ukrainian border, the little village of Ruská Bystrá has a wooden church built in the early eighteenth century, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, with a tower and a roof of wooden shingles and an iconostasis of painted icons inside. It is one of the Greek Catholic churches included in the World Heritage listing of the Wooden Churches of the Slovak Part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, inscribed in 2008, along with Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches across the country.
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Ruská Bystrá comes up about 88 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy.
At the very eastern tip of Slovakia, where the borders of Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine meet on the summit of Kremenec, lies a forest that has been left to itself for longer than anyone remembers. Stužica, in the Poloniny National Park, is one of the most valuable fragments of primeval beech forest in Europe, with trees several hundred years old, fallen trunks rotting slowly on the ground, and an extraordinary richness of fungi, insects and birds. It is part of the UNESCO site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a transnational listing that started with forests in Slovakia and Ukraine.
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about 232 km into the recorded legs you reach Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy. Next is Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa.
In the Bieszczady mountains of south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine, a wooden church stands on a gentle rise above the San valley at Smolnik. It is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel and built in the style of the Boyko people, with three log sections stepping up from east to west under shingled roofs. Since 2013 it has been part of the World Heritage Site of Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine.
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Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa, about halfway. Next is back through Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy.
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Read the complete Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy write-up.
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back through Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy sits at 422 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ruská Bystrá.
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Read the complete Ruská Bystrá write-up.
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back through Ruská Bystrá comes up about 552 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rožok.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rožok write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Rožok closes the day.
Rožok → Ruská Bystrá is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ruská Bystrá → Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy is 144 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy → Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa → back through Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy → back through Ruská Bystrá is 144 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ruská Bystrá → Rožok is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.