Štefanja Gora - Štefanja gora (via Spodnja Štefanja vas)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice take the exit Vodice, then continue to the first semaphore crossing in Vodice, where you turn left towards Cerkelj na Gorenjskem and Brnik. When you reach the main roundabout at Spodnji Brnik, continue driving in the direction of Cerkeliai and the ski resort Krvavec. At the end of Cerklje na Gorenjskem, leave the main road, which continues towards Velesovo and Visoke, and turn slightly right onto the road towards the ski resort Krvavec. Continue past the bottom station of the cable car to Krvavec, and when the road levels out and leads to a small pass where the village of Štefanja Gora begins, park in a suitable place on the roadside.
b) From the motorway Jesenice - Ljubljana, take the exit Kranj - East, and then continue to Brnik, Komenda and Mengeš. When you reach the main roundabout at Spodnji Brnik, continue driving towards Cerkeliai and the ski resort Krvavec. At the end of Cerklje na Gorenjskem, leave the main road, which continues towards Velesovo and Visoke, and turn slightly right onto the road towards the ski resort of Krvavec. Continue past the bottom station of the cable car to Krvavec, and when the road levels out and leads to a small pass where the village of Štefanja Gora begins, park in a suitable place on the roadside.

Path description:
From the starting point, the path to the right branches off towards Kopa, Davovec and Krvavec, and we walk along the asphalt road to a crossroads some 10 metres away, where we continue along the left-hand road in the direction of the hunting lodge and the Damahaus CNC (straight Štefanja gora across Zgornja Štefanja vas). The road along which we continue our journey soon turns quite left and leads us out of the forest along the edge of the meadow a few 10 steps further on and to the first houses of the hamlet of Spodnja Štefanja vas (Spodnja Štefanja vas hamlet). After the house with house number Štefanja Gora 20, continue to the right (straight Grad and Dvorje), then at the next crossroads, next to which there is an information board of the red deer left down (straight hunting lodge). The path continues along the forest road, which leads us past a few individual houses, then passes into the forest and a little further on to the meadows. A little further on, at an unmarked crossroads, continue to the right, and at the next crossroads follow the signs for the church and the Mežnar farm. A little beyond the hunting observatory, we arrive at the next crossroads, where new tourist signs direct us to a slightly right path (road), and we continue on a slightly left path (cart track), along which we see old red markers with the inscription pri Mežnarju.
We continue through the forest, where the path leads us without any major changes in altitude. When the path from Adergas joins us from the left (so far the path from Grad and Dvorje has joined us from the left), we continue slightly right across a large meadow, at the end of which we join an asphalt road, which we reach in the immediate vicinity of the open-door farm at Mežnar.
Here, turn left, then from the end of the road straight on to the path which first climbs across the meadow and then leads through the lane of a forest to the partially overlooked summit of Štefanja gora, where the Church of St Stephen stands.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2016 (April).

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