Why this ride
Sustained elevation change, linked bends and open summit views. It also links naturally to Semenic-Cheile Carasului National Park.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Transsemenic
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 61 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 26
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. 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.
Access context
High passes are seasonal. Verify surface, weather and construction status. Specific flag: weather.
Seasonal context
May-Oct
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Reşiţa
Reșița is a steel town in a deep green valley, and it wears its industrial past with a kind of stubborn pride. The ironworks here were founded in the eighteenth century under the Habsburgs, when the Banat was part of their empire, and for two centuries the town made iron, steel, machinery and locomotives. The first steam locomotive built on what is now Romanian territory came out of the Reșița works in the 1870s, and an open-air museum in the town displays a line of old steam engines, a stop that even riders who never think about trains tend to enjoy.
Read the complete Reşiţa write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Reşiţa sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Văliug.
2. Văliug
Văliug is a small mountain village at the head of a chain of lakes on the upper Bârzava, the place where the valley above Reșița stops being industrial and becomes simply green. It lies in the Semenic Mountains of the Banat, with fewer than a thousand people, and it is surrounded by beech and spruce forest that covers the hills as far as the eye can see. The lakes, Văliug and the larger Gozna just upstream, were made by dams built to supply water and power to the steelworks below, and today they are popular with families from Reșița for swimming, fishing and picnics.
Read the complete Văliug write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Văliug comes up 17 km in. Next is Slatina-Timiş.
3. Slatina-Timiş
Slatina-Timiș lies in the long corridor of the Timiș river, the natural route that runs south from Caransebeș toward the Danube at Orșova, with the Semenic Mountains to the west and the Țarcu and Godeanu ranges rising to the east. It is a working village of around three thousand people, spread along the main road and the river, with fields on the valley floor and forest on the slopes. Most people pass straight through on the E70, but for anyone riding the Transsemenic, this is where the mountain road comes down from the Semenic plateau to meet the valley.
Read the complete Slatina-Timiş write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
61 km in you reach Slatina-Timiş.