Predgrad - Kozice (by road)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Kočevje, and then we continue driving in the direction of Delnic. In Livold we leave the main road towards Croatia and we continue left in the direction of Črnomelj and Vinice. Further, we drive through the settlements Mozelj, Rajndol, Knežja Lipa, Brezovica pri Predgradu, where the road turns sharply to the right, Čeplje, Zagozdac and Jelenja vas to the settlement Predgrad, where at the church of St. Sebastian we park on a parking lot at the information boards.
B) From Vinice or Črnomelj we drive to Stari trg ob Kolpi, from there we continue driving in the direction of Kočevje, but we drive only to Predgrad, where we park on a parking lot in front of the church of St. Sebastian.

Route description:
Signs for Kozice from the parking lot point us onto the road, where we walk in the direction of Kočevje, after some 10 steps behind the nearby house the footpath to Kozice continues to the left, and we continue on the road. The road then leads us past the information board Svet Kolpe, snack bar Hace, birth house of Jožef Šmalclj to the chapel, where we leave the main road and continue slightly left on a side road, at the next intersection by the cross we go straight. Further, we go past a few houses, then we arrive in the forest, where we go past the log storage.
The asphalt ends a little further on, and we continue on the macadam road, which further up has quite a few intersections, and we follow the signs for Kozice - access with a car. We follow the road, which mostly moderately ascends and leads us through the forest, all the way to its end at the top of Kozice at the RTV transmitter, where there is a logbook box.
For a nice view it is worth continuing in the direction of the viewpoint, to which we arrive after less than 5 minutes of descent.
Description and pictures refer to the state in August 2020.

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