Preska - Sveta Katarina (Topol) (via Turnice)

Access to the starting point:
a) First, drive into Ljubljana, then continue along the Celovška Road towards Medvode. When you arrive in Medvode, turn left at the first traffic light over the railway line towards Gole Brdo, Žleb and Preska. After the railway line, turn right on the main road towards Preska, and follow the main road until the first road fork to the left. Continue through the village and when you see the sports ground of the nearby primary school on your right, turn left onto the Road to Žlebeh. When the residential houses on the right hand side of the road end, you will come to a parking area, where you park.
b) From Škofja Loka, Kranj or Vodice, drive to Medvode and from there continue to Ljubljana. At the last traffic light in Medvode, which is located about 100 m further from the Hofer store, turn right across the railway line in the direction of Goleg Brdo, Žleb and Preska. After the railway line, turn right along the main road towards Preska, and follow the main road to the first road junction to the left. Continue through the village and when you see the sports ground of the nearby primary school on your right, turn left onto the Road to Žlebeh. When the residential houses on the right hand side of the road end, you will come to a parking area, where you park.

Path description:
At the end of the parking lot there is a marked crossroads where we continue right in the direction of Jeterbenk and Katarina (Slavkov dom na Golem Brdu on the left). The path initially leads us along a macadam road, which changes for a small house into cart track, and we continue left into the woods, where we first cross a small stream. We continue to climb gently along the occasionally overgrown path, which leads us past several small crossroads where we follow the markings. After a few minutes of ascending, the path turns slightly to the left and gradually descends to a forest road, which we only cross. There is a small descent, and then you reach an asphalt road and follow it to the right, but you only walk along it for a short time, as the red mountain signs direct you left to a nearby fruit press.
Go around the fruit press pr Andrej on the left, then follow it over a small bridge into the forest. In the forest, first continue to the right and in a few minutes climb up to cart track, which leads out of the forest. The way forward is along the above-mentioned cart track, which leads first past a house and then along the beautiful views of the Polhograjsko hills. After a short descent, you reach an asphalt road, which you only cross, as the route continues on a macadam road. The road soon splits into two parts, and we continue along the lower left (or right, as both routes lead to St Marjeta's Church), which quickly leads to a left turn, at which there is a marked Žlebe parking lot.
From the parking lot, follow cart track in the direction of Katarina, Jeterbenk and St. Marjeta (left Petelinc), which continues along the left side of the brook. After a few 10 steps leave the cart track and continue right into the woods, first descending to and crossing the stream. On the other side, continue climbing gently for a short distance, then the path turns right and climbs steeply. A little higher up, you reach a marked crossroads where you have two options for continuing.
You can either continue left in the direction Jeterbenk or right along a good minute longer path past the Church of St Margaret. If you continue along the left path, you will soon reach the next crossroads, where another path to the church branches off to the right. Here again, continue left, then slightly further on at an unmarked crossroads slightly right up (the lower left path leads to Jeterbenk "along the ridge" (of course, the path only goes to the ridge a little higher up)), where after a short climb you join the cart track leading from the church of St Margaret.
Continue along the relatively wide cart track, which leads past the information board of the archaeological site at Gradišče. A few minutes further on, the path of the Knights of the Robber Knights branches off to the right, and we continue straight on the slightly steeper cart track. Just before the steepness subsides, we rejoin the path of the Knights of the Predatory Knights, and the waymarked path turns slightly more to the left and leads us over the ridge of Turnice to the western slopes of Jeterbenka. The way forward leads us across the meadow, from which we transiently open up some views, and then returns to the forest and leads us to the crossroads at the chapel.
From this crossroads, which is located at the edge of the forest, continue straight ahead (sharp left Jeterbenk, left Slavkov dom na Golem Brdu) along the scenic road, which quickly leads to the next crossroads, from where we continue slightly left in the direction of Katarina (the Jakob's path continues along the right-hand road, leading towards Kozomer Farm, and straight ahead between the two roads, the path continues towards Róg and Sv. Continue along the gently to moderately ascending road, following it to the nearby church of St. Catherine.

On the way: Sveta Marjeta under Jeterbenk (482m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Jeterbenk, Rog, Sveti Jakob

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