Mountain trails · The Obcini of Bucovina

Poiana Micului – Târsiciori Peak

Waymarkingyellow stripe → blue stripe
EffortLow
TechnicalEasy
TypeOut and back
Duration1½ hours
Ascent+400 m

Out and back: you go up and down the same path; the time above is one way.

Daylight · Poiana Micului · today,

  • Sunrise 07:07
  • Sunset 16:53
  • Daylight 9 h 46 min −2 min vs yesterday

The times are for the starting point. Between ridges the light goes earlier than the clock says, so turn back a good hour before sunset.

Weather · Poiana Micului · today,

2° min -2° cloudy
  • Precipitation0%
  • Wind17 km/h · gusts 47
  • UV index2,5
  • Elevation734 m
  • Sun 8° -2°
  • Mon 5° -2°
  • Tue 9° -0°
  • Wed 7° -2°
  • Thu 9° -4°

The forecast is for where you set off. Up on the ridge, count on a few degrees less and on wind you cannot see from below.

What the walking is like

An hour and a half from the Polish village of Bucovina up Târsiciori, with views over Obcina Mare; from the summit the blue stripe descends to Sucevița. Short, easy, good with children.

Mountain trail

  1. Poiana Micului · 680 m
  2. Hay meadows
  3. Târsiciori Peak · 1,083 m

What we'd tell you at the gate

  • Poiana Micului is a village of Polish origin: the houses and the Catholic church deserve a walk beforehand.
  • Continuation to Sucevița on the blue stripe, with a car at the end.

Elevation profile

680 m1,083 m
Poiana Micului (landmark: the village centre; the marked start is at the exit towards the mountain)+400 m of ascent · 1½ hours

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What else you can do on the trail

  • 🐴 The Lucina stud farm, with its Hutsul horses, right below Lucina Peak.
  • Mountain biking on the ridge tracks and the Tatars' Road.
  • The Palma zipline, at Ciumârna Pass.

What grows and what moves along the trail

Flora

  • beech, sycamore and spruce mixed
  • mown hay meadows, with wildflowers until July
  • raspberry and blackberry at the forest edges
  • crocuses in the clearings, in autumn

Fauna

  • roe deer and red deer in the hay meadows, in the morning
  • Hutsul horses at the Lucina stud farm
  • buzzard, kestrel and woodpeckers
  • bear and wolf present, rarely seen

The species above are those documented in the area by the protected-area administration; what you see depends on season, hour and luck.

How long it takes, honestly

The time in the guide is one way; back on the same path, count about two thirds of it. The duration is the one in Suceava County's official guide (Salvamont); the kilometres and driving minutes to the trailhead are from Google Maps.

  • 1½ hoursone way, to the top, at your usual pace
  • 1 hoursback the same way (estimate)
  • 2½ hoursout and back, with short breaks
  • 2–2 hoursone way, if you stop for photos and eat on the grass
  • 2–3 hoursone way, with children, grandparents or a pack full of “just in case”

Sleep at the foot of the mountain

Start from the gate, not from a car park

La Cuib is 59 minutes by car from the start of this trail: a fully equipped kitchen that is yours from first light, a place to dry boots, a garden for the evening. Three nights, the whole house, 1.797 lei.

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Once you're back down

Sleep twenty minutes from the trail.

The whole house is yours: wet boots by the door, packs in the hall, a late dinner. Parking in the yard and an early start, without waking anyone.

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