Vikrče - Šmarna gora (learning trail)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Ljubljana - Šmartno exit and then continue to Tacno. In Tacno, just before the road crosses the Sava River via a bridge, turn slightly right in the direction of Pirnič. Just after Ljubljana ends, we arrive in Vikrče, and we follow the road to the Kovač Inn, which is located near the bus stop. There are no suitable parking places at the starting point.
b) From Šentvid, drive to Tacen, then turn left immediately after the bridge over the Sava River towards Pirničy. Just after Ljubljana ends, we arrive in Vikrče, and we follow the road to the Kovač Inn, which is located near the bus stop. There are no suitable parking places at the starting point.
c) From Medvode, drive to Zgornje and then Spodnje Pirniče, and we follow the road to Tacno. When we arrive in Vikrče, we join the road leading from Smlednik to Tacno, and we continue to the right here and follow the road to the nearby Kovač Inn, where the starting point of our route is. There are no suitable parking places at the starting point.
d) The starting point can also be reached by LPP bus 15.

Path description:
After the Kovač Inn, continue right into the forest, where you will immediately reach a crossroads of two marked trails. Take the left path marked Kovačeva steza (slightly to the right Westrova pot), which begins to climb crosswise to the left. After a short climb, you reach the next crossroads, where you continue along the lower left path in the direction of the nature trail (slightly to the right Kovačeva steza). A little further on, join cart track, which is followed to the left, and we follow it to the water tower. Immediately after the water tower, continue right into the woods (if you continue straight ahead you will descend into Spodnje Pirniče) through which you will first start to climb only gradually. Further on, the path leads us past an abandoned quarry, and we join the more beaten track from the Lipa club just a little further on.
The path continues through the forest, through which it gradually starts to climb more steeply. We climb steeply for a while, and then the path lays down and leads us to a place where we join a relatively steep road leading from Zavrh towards Šmarna Gora.
We continue our ascent along the road, which leads us past the NOB monument and a few metres further on, past the plague or Turks' sign. Higher up, the road turns slightly more to the left and leads us out of the forest onto the viewing slopes. With a view of the Šmarna gora and Kamnik Savinja Alps peak, we quickly reach the Žumberačka gora homestead, from which we follow a short walk to the marked crossroads Na Sedlu.
Here, continue left along the road, which soon splits into two parts. You can continue your ascent along the road, in which case you will climb to the top past the wishing bell, or you can continue to the right along the marked footpath, which also leads you to the top of Šmarna Gora, past the Chapel of St. Sobota.

On the way: Na Sedlu (580m)

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