Radlje ob Dravi - Sveti Anton na MP Radelj / St. Anton am Radlpaß (via old castle)

Access to the starting point:
From the road Dravograd - Maribor, in Radlje ob Dravi, from the crossroads by the Lidl shop, go towards the centre of the settlement and the Radeljski Pass. After the crossroads, go past the Hofer shop and past the road turning off to the left towards St. Trem Kralje, and at the next crossroads turn left towards Austria. Just after the crossroads, take another left and park in the large asphalt parking lot near the Radlje Manor.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue eastwards, where you first carefully cross the main road Radlje ob Dravi - Radeljski prelaz, and on the other side of the road the trail splits into two parts.

You can either continue left along the forest and historical trail Stari grad, or straight ahead along the trim trail. Both paths are well marked and merge higher up in the forest and then cross a few more times, but higher up they follow the same route. Higher up, the trail turns left and goes up a slightly steeper slope, where it is enclosed by a wooden fence, and splits when the fence on the left ends.

Continue straight on (a trim trail, a nature trail and a trail leading to the old castle continue to the sharp right) and a little further on join the wide cart track, which you follow to the left. Once back on the cart track, rejoin the nature trail and the trim trail, and a little further on, the marked European footpath E6 joins from the right.

Further on, finally leave the trim trail and the nature trail and follow the yellow-red markings at the crossroads. A little further on, you reach a dirt road, which you follow to the left, descending gently. The path along the road leads past a pasture and the Majerhof farmhouse, and then the markings from the road direct you slightly right to cart track, from which you go slightly further slightly left, initially on a parallel marked path, which later gradually diverges from cart track. Later, a passage joins another cart track, and a path which leads over a number of streams and which climbs gently to moderately most of the time, leads to a crossroads at which there is a direction sign.

The signs direct us slightly left on a path which descends to the Žohar guesthouse, where there is a stamp, and we continue slightly right, on an unmarked, but for a short time unmarked, path, which returns to the marked path above the guesthouse, and is reached at cart track, which we follow to the right. There is a short climb up cart track, then it splits and we continue on the left, which leads us out of the woods onto the hay meadows. Following the cart track, we climb up to the road, which we reach at a marked crossroads by the birch.
From the crossroads go left towards the Radelj Pass (right Kapunar), and the road soon turns into a forest. In the forest, first go straight ahead (Ternik farm on the sharp right), then there is a slight downhill. At the next crossroads, take another slight left, then reach the main asphalt road, which you follow to the right, and continue along it all the way to the Radelj Pass.
At the pass, cross the state border, then after the buildings on the pass, turn left in the direction of St. Anton (Kapunerhütte hut on the right). The way ahead is along a dirt road, from which you turn slightly left after the gate onto a marked footpath. The footpath continues along the state border for a few minutes, then turns slightly right and returns to the dirt road, which continues above the quarry. Enjoy the views as you continue to a marked crossroads, from which you turn right towards St. Anton (St. Lorenzen on the left). There are two serpentines and some downhill before leaving the area of the large quarry and within a few minutes you climb through the forest to St. Anthony's Church.
Radlje ob Dravi - Radelj Pass 1:45, Radelj Pass - St. Anton 0:30.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2019 (May).

On the way: Prelaz Radelj (674m)

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