Spodnje Stranice (graves of hundred hostages) - Stolpnik (via hunting cottage Štepih)

Access to the starting point:
a) Leave the Ljubljana - Maribor motorway at exit Celje East, then follow the signs for Vojnik and then Frankolovo and Slovenske Konjice. Follow the road to Spodnje Stranice, where you will see a parking lot on the left side of the road, next to the red mountain direction signs.
b) Leave the Maribor - Ljubljana motorway at the Slovenske Konjice exit, then follow the signs for Slovenske Konjice and later Stranice and Vojnik. From the roundabout at Stranice, continue straight ahead and drive to Spodnje Stranice, where you will see a parking lot on the right side of the road, next to the red mountain direction signs.

Path description:
From the parking lot, take the path in the direction of Stolpnik and initially continue along the main road in the direction of Celje. Soon we will come to a small crossroads, where we go left on a side road, along which the markings continue, and we continue past some houses. Before the small bridge, an unmarked forest road branches off to the right, which also leads to the Štepih hunting lodge, and we continue straight on the marked road, which leads us higher up past the Stranice ponds and past the Rogla water bottling plant. We continue straight on at a few small crossroads, and start climbing a little steeper behind the chapel. Higher up, we reach an asphalt road where we merge with the Stranice trail, and we continue straight on, passing the chapel and quickly arriving at the Kersnik homestead, after which we turn right onto a side road. On the other side of the homestead, the signs for Stolpnik direct us left to cart track, and after a few steps right with cart track up a marked footpath. The markings become more frequent as we follow them as we climb through the forest.
At a higher altitude, take the forest road and follow it to the right towards the Štepih hunting lodge (straight ahead on footpath Stolpnik across the Grofov Štant). Continue along the macadam road, which takes about 15 minutes of further walking to reach a crossroads, where you go left and then quickly reach the aforementioned hunting lodge.
Leave the road at the hunting lodge and turn left onto the marked footpath in the direction of Stolpnika. There is a short climb through the forest and then cross a forest road. On the other side of the road you also climb through the forest, and higher up you pass over a short lookout, from which you get a nice view of part of Karawanks and Pohorje. After this part, the path returns to the forest, through which you continue until you reach the summit, a few minutes away, where there is a 25-metre-high lookout tower.
Lower Stranice - Čretvež 0:35, Čretvež - Hunting lodge 1:00, Hunting lodge - Stolpnik 0:25.

On the way: Čretvež (534m), Hunting cottage Štepih (825m)

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