Why this ride
From Zalău it runs 95 km to Zalău; allow about 2 h 05 of riding. The stops in between: Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2, Cliț - Fața Chicerii and back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Zalău - Poieniță and Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 95 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 05
- 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. Zalău - Poieniță
Poieniță is a small poiană, which is the Romanian word for a clearing in the forest, and a clearing is a good place to begin talking about mushrooms. Around Zalău, from late summer to the first frosts, the woods are full of people with baskets and plastic bags, wandering slowly between the beech trunks with their eyes on the ground. The Poieniță point lies a few kilometres outside the town, on the wooded edge of the Meseș foothills, and it belongs to a tradition of foraging that has not died out with the arrival of supermarkets.
Read the complete Zalău - Poieniță write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Zalău - Poieniță is where the day begins. Next is Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2.
2. Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2
The Roman province of Dacia had a northern frontier that ran along the hills of what is now Sălaj county, in north-western Romania, around the great fortress of Porolissum. Here the Limes was not a continuous wall but a network of watchtowers, small forts and earthworks set on hilltops with views over the valleys. Vârful Cigleanului, a hilltop near the village of Ciglean, close to Jibou, held one of these watchtowers, and the number in the name marks it as one of several in the area.
Read the complete Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
3. Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Cliț - Fața Chicerii. Next is back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2.
4. back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2, late in the day. Next is Zalău - Poieniță.
5. Zalău - Poieniță
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zalău - Poieniță write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Zalău - Poieniță. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Zalău - Poieniță to Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2
Zalău - Poieniță → Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 to Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii to back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 to Zalău - Poieniță
back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 → Zalău - Poieniță is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.