Juranščina - Ivanščica (via Belige)

Access to the starting point:
a) Arrive in Croatia via Border crossing Gruškovje / Macelj. Leave the Macelj-Zagreb motorway at Zabok. Continue in the direction of Bedekovčina, Zlatar Bistrica. After Poznanovec, leave the main road and go in the direction of Maca, Zlatar (it is also possible to reach Zlatar by continuing on and turning in the town of Zlatar-Bistrica). In Zlatar you will see signs for Belec, which is about 15 minutes away on a worse road.
b) From Prekmurje, take the Goričan-Zagreb motorway, leaving at the Novi Marof exit. From Novi Marof, we will continue in the direction of Zlatar, but only as far as the town of Budinscina, where we will take the worse road, which will lead us to the village of Belec after twenty minutes.

The official start of the route is at the church in Belec, but from here to "our" starting point in Juranščina is a half-hour walk on asphalt.

Path description:
The official start of the route is at the church in the village of Belec. I recommend that you drive further to the village of Juranščina, because it is a half-hour walk on asphalt and flat ground.
In Juranščina there is a crossroads where you will see mountain signs. Go left in the direction of Belecgrad (Kopanja and Židovina on the right). The asphalt will soon be over and the path will turn into a forest (there are still a few parking places here).
Through the forest we walk on a mostly level path, with some views of the ruins of Belecgrad Castle through the trees, and on the left side of the path runs the pleasant stream Brana, which descends towards the valley in numerous rapids. After half an hour's walk, you reach the Belecgrad Mountain Home.
After the lodge there is a large crossroads from which you continue to the left (straight on Brana, right on Kopanja via Mindžalovec). Cross the Brana stream. Here you can choose between two options, I recommend the left one because the right one goes through a clearing and has no markings, only one on a rock. The paths join at the hunting lodge, from where you continue to the next crossroads, which is located in front of Belec Castle, which is now a ruin.
From the crossroads, continue slightly to the right (behind us is the branch for the ruins, to the left is the path for the Majer mountain hut and the ruins of Oštrcgrad). The path ahead is increasingly steep and leads through lower forest. After a while, the path turns quite imperceptibly from the north-western to the north-eastern side and lays down. The laid part lasts only a minute, and then you reach the steepest part of the trail, where in a few places the path is quite rocky and almost borders on partly difficult. Higher up, the path is laid again and leads to a crossroads where, if you continue to the left, you can reach the Babin zob lookout point in a minute.
After the crossroads, which is about halfway along the trail, we arrive in the lane mixed forest, where the trail becomes steep again at an interesting rock. The forest gradually thins out and we reach the Beliga meadow. Once a lively mountain pasture, it is now abandoned and increasingly overgrown. Follow the meadow to the right, and when we return to the forest we are already at the next crossroads, which is less well marked and where the path from Lobor and the Majer mountain hut joins us from the right. After some easy walking through the forest, you reach a saddle with a view to the north. We have two options for continuing, we can continue downhill, where we walk under the rocks, or I recommend the path that leads over the top of Beliga.
Go up the steep path, which continues along the ridge, which is narrow and exposed in places, and we follow this path to the top of Beliga, where there is a registration box.
We continue on and after a minute the ridge ends and we descend about 100 metres to a crossroads where our route officially ends and becomes the Brana route.
Continue to the right and you will reach a road which you can follow all the way to the hut, but I recommend going slightly downhill from the road and in a minute you will reach Črni mlaki, the legendary take-off point of the coprnice.
The Black Mire is a small muddy lake that never dries up.
We continue towards the summit, and the path leads us eastwards, soon arriving at the next resting place and the next crossroads, where we join a few more paths. A little further on, we reach a less well-marked crossroads, where we go uphill.
A little higher up, we touch a road, and we go left along a waymarked path. There is a short climb and we reach the road again, but this time we continue along it to a mountain hut about 5 minutes away, from which we have only a minute's walk to the top of Ivanščice.

On the way: Planinarska kuća Belec (440m), Belec grad (531m), Razglednik Babin zub (638m), Belige (974m)

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