Topličica - Veliki Lubenjak

Access to the starting point:
Leave the Varaždin - Zagreb motorway at the Novi Marof exit, drive to the point and continue towards Zlatar from the roundabout. After Novi Marof, go through the village of Madžarevo, after which you will reach the starting point of the village of Topličica. You can park in the parking lot by the swimming pools.

Path description:
From the parking lot by the swimming pool, walk back towards Nové Marof, where you will see information boards pointing up Grebengradská Street to the left. Follow the road as it climbs steeply up to the highest houses in the village. When the road starts to descend, go right, and the sign on the side of the road will help you. Continue past the abandoned hunting lodge and into the forest.
Through the woods we follow the wide cart track, which climbs moderately, and we soon arrive at an unmarked crossroads, where we go left. Keep to the wider and well-maintained road, but as the forest thins out, the path from the village of Madžarevo joins us from the right, and the path will start to climb steeply after this crossroads.
After a short climb, you will reach the western slope, where the path will also be laid. Around one bend, you will see the ruins of Grebengrad Castle in the distance.
When the path starts to descend steeply for a short time, we are near the exit from the forest, where the path from the village of Podrute (officially abandoned path) almost imperceptibly joins us from the left. Just a little further on we will come to the meadow of the abandoned farm Novoselec, where the mountain hut Grebengrad is also located.
From the hut, go left to the north (the sign on the farm is helpful) and a little further on, left again to the west. The path then leads us past the hunting lodge, and we soon arrive at the next crossroads, where a short path branches off to the left towards the ruins of Grebengrad Castle (despite the ruins, it is worth a visit), and we continue to the right towards the summit along a sloping path. After a few minutes of further walking, we re-emerge from the forest, and the tree markings again help us to continue our ascent.
In the meadow, the orientation of the path is relatively easy, as we see a large wooden cross in front of us, past which the path leads us. Behind the cross, from where we have a beautiful view to the south, we return to the forest and after a short steep climb we reach the forested summit.

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