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: producer-declared routed record.
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A 138 km round trip from Velykyi Bereznyi - roughly 2 h 37 in the saddle. The stops in between: Havešová Primeval Forest, Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy and back through Havešová Primeval Forest. It crosses from Slovakia into Poland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Ruská Bystrá write-up.
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Ruská Bystrá is where the day begins. Next is Havešová Primeval Forest.
In the far north-east of Slovakia, in the hills where Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine meet, the beech forests have never been cut. Havešová is one of these primeval forests, a steep slope of giant beech trees, some over forty metres tall and hundreds of years old, with fallen trunks decaying slowly on the forest floor and new trees rising in the gaps. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, inscribed in 2007 and extended since, and it lies within Poloniny National Park, one of the least visited and most remote national parks in Central Europe.
Read the complete Havešová Primeval Forest write-up.
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Havešová Primeval Forest comes up about 47 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.
Read the complete Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy write-up.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy. Next is back through Havešová Primeval Forest.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Havešová Primeval Forest write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Havešová Primeval Forest, late in the day. Next is Ruská Bystrá.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ruská Bystrá write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ruská Bystrá. That is the ride.
Ruská Bystrá → Havešová Primeval Forest is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Havešová Primeval Forest → Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy → back through Havešová Primeval Forest is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Havešová Primeval Forest → Ruská Bystrá is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.