Parking at botanical garden - Gromovača

Access to the starting point:
From the Zagreb - Split motorway, take the Otočac exit. Follow the road towards the village of Krasno and Sjeverni Velebit. A rather winding road leads through the village of Švica to Krasno, where the road from Senj joins (access is also possible from this direction). In Krasno, continue towards the signs for the Sjeverni Velebit National Park and the Zavižan lodge. The road, which then becomes macadam, leads to the entrance to the park, where the entrance fee is collected. Continue along the road, which leads to a crossroads by a chapel. Continue straight on for another 100m to the parking lot in front of the road closure near the botanical garden (botanički vrt).

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road, which is closed to traffic, almost horizontally at first. After a few minutes' walk, you reach a crossroads where the path to Gromovača (Premužičeva staza) branches off to the right. Take this path, which initially climbs gently across the meadow and after a few minutes leads into the forest. The path continues through the forest and runs mostly horizontally up the rocky slopes. Here it begins to climb gently up a scenic slope. The path then goes into the forest again and, after a two-hour walk from the parking lot, leads to a crossroads where the path to the top of Gromovače branches off to the right. Take this path, which soon leaves the forest and turns onto slopes covered with dwarf pines. At this point the path climbs steeply for a short time on a partly rocky slope. There are only a few minutes of moderate ascent on the increasingly exposed mountainside.

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