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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From Zalău it runs 300 km to Zalău; allow about 5 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: Bârsău Mare - Cetate, Zagra - Dealul Lupului and back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
On the hills above Zalău, in the county of Sălaj in northwestern Romania, the Roman Empire reached its northern limit in Dacia. After Trajan conquered the Dacian kingdom in 106, the Romans built a frontier system along the edges of the new province, with forts, watchtowers, walls and ditches, and in 2024 UNESCO listed it as the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. The site at Stâna, La Oroieși, is one of many small elements of that frontier: a watchtower or defensive line on a ridge, where soldiers watched over the approaches from the free Dacian lands beyond. There is little to see on the ground, but the location, with views over the hills, explains why it was chosen.
Read the complete Stâna - La Oroieși write-up.
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Stâna - La Oroieși is where the day begins. Next is Bârsău Mare - Cetate.
In the north of Transylvania, the Someș river winds through a valley of green hills, woods and villages with wooden churches and haystacks, and on a hilltop near the village of Bârsău Mare, the faint remains of a Roman fortification overlook the valley. This was part of the northern frontier of Roman Dacia, the province created after Trajan's conquest in the early second century, and it is one of the sites included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Bârsău Mare - Cetate write-up.
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Bârsău Mare - Cetate comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zagra - Dealul Lupului.
Zagra is the last farming village before the land begins to climb in earnest toward the Rodna mountains, the highest range in the Eastern Carpathians north of the Prislop pass. Pietrosul Rodnei, at about 2,300 metres, is the summit, and the whole massif is protected as a national park and biosphere reserve, with glacial lakes, rocky ridges and alpine meadows that stay snowy into June. From the Dealul Lupului, the Wolf Hill, you look across a patchwork of hayfields toward those peaks, which look closer than they are.
Read the complete Zagra - Dealul Lupului write-up.
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about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Zagra - Dealul Lupului. Next is back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bârsău Mare - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate, late in the day. Next is Stâna - La Oroieși.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stâna - La Oroieși write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Stâna - La Oroieși. That is the ride.
Stâna - La Oroieși → Bârsău Mare - Cetate is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bârsău Mare - Cetate → Zagra - Dealul Lupului is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zagra - Dealul Lupului → back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate → Stâna - La Oroieși is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.