Bargau Pass (Tihuta — Borgo Pass)
Category 218 km
Distance
650 m
Elevation Gain
3.6%
Average Gradient
8%
Max Gradient
1201 m
Summit Elevation
The Bargau Pass — known internationally as Borgo Pass and in Romanian as Pasul Tihuta — carries a literary fame that exceeds its gradient difficulty: it is the pass described in Chapter 1 of Bram Stoker's Dracula as the route by which Jonathan Harker crosses the Carpathians into the land beyond the...
Pro Tip
The Borgo Pass is most rewarding as the centrepiece of a Bistrita–Vatra Dornei traverse — the 65km road from Bistrita to Vatra Dornei via the pass summit is one of the finest Transylvanian valley-and-...
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