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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Nimigea de Sus it runs 123 km to Nimigea de Sus; allow about 3 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Dobricel - Vârful Lazului, Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 and back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului. The line favours views over speed.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Salva - Modruț
Salva lies where the Someșul Mare valley opens into a broad bowl in Bistrița-Năsăud county, with the Rodna mountains standing to the northeast and a ring of low wooded hills closer in. The town is a railway junction, a lorry stop on the road through the valley, and the kind of place that looks ordinary until you ask about its past.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Salva - Modruț is where the day begins. Next is Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
2. Dobricel - Vârful Lazului
Spermezeu is the kind of place a road atlas barely notices: a commune of scattered villages in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud, in northern Transylvania, between the upper Someș valley and the Țibleș mountains. The site of Dobricel, on the hilltop known as Vârful Lazului, is one of the many archaeological places recorded in the area, a high point above the valleys where traces of earlier inhabitants have been noted. There is not much to see without an archaeologist's eye, but the hilltop and the country around it are a good excuse for a ride through a region few foreigners ever visit.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Dobricel - Vârful Lazului comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2.
3. Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2
Above the valley of the Someș Mare in Bistrița-Năsăud county, the hill called Dealul Podului carries the faint remains of a Roman watch post, one of a string of small installations that kept an eye on the northern edge of the province of Dacia. Like many points on this frontier, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2024, it is less a monument than a viewpoint with a story, a place where soldiers once scanned the horizon for movement in the free lands to the north. Today the horizon holds forested ridges, orchards and villages strung along the river.