Zgornja Bistrica (Center Vintgar) - Sveti Urh (Urh) (via Veliko Tinje)

Access to starting point:
We drive to the center of Slovenska Bistrica, from where we go on the road in the direction of Zgornja Bistrica and Bistriški Vintgar. We further follow the signs for Bistriški Vintgar, and we park on the settled parking lot at Center Vintgar.

Path description:
From the parking lot at Center Vintgar we return to the road and we continue in the direction of Bistriški Vintgar. For a short time, we walk on the road or sidewalk, and then on the left side of the road, we notice signs for 3 Kralji, which point us to the left, on the path which over a small bridge crosses Bistrica. The path ahead ascends through the forest, and we somehow follow the better beaten path, because blazes are quite rare and faded. A little further, we by the edge of the forest ascend to the nearby cart track, where we go left, slightly downwards. We quickly reach an asphalt road and we follow it to the right, and there we are ascending through the settlement Visole. Through the settlement at the crossroads we continue straight, and when the houses end at the "transmitter" we continue slightly right, on further macadam road. We continue also past a smaller football field and with nice views on part of Štajerska we get to the next unmarked crossroad.
This time we continue slightly left, so that we bypass the nearby water storage on the left side, and the path passes into the forest and it is ascending diagonally on a cart track. When we leave the forest, by houses we reach an asphalt road, and at the nearby crossroad, we continue straight on a macadam road, so that we only cross the road towards Turiška vas na Pohorju.
By the macadam road, on which we continue on the power line pole there is a clearly visible trail blaze, and further we walk there with nice views. After few minutes, the path passes into the forest and becomes asphalted and descends to the main road which leads towards Veliko Tinje. We continue through the village, and at the crossroad, we go left, and only few steps after the crossroad we go right on stairs, on which we ascend to the church of St. Peter and Pavel, which we bypass on the left side. Behind the church, we cross the access road and we continue by the hedge and then through a meadow we return on an asphalt road, on which we ascend to an unmarked crossroad. From the crossroad, we continue on the right upper road, by which on the right we notice a blaze. Little further we get to few more houses, where we go right on a cart track which ascends diagonally above the road. Through the forest at the crossings we follow the blazes, and few minutes higher we leave the forest and we continue an ascent on the path which continues by the edge of the forest. Higher, the path turns right and returns into the forest, through which we ascend to an asphalt road which we reach at a smaller crossroad, where we leave the marked path.
We continue across the main road, on a side road in the direction of Urh (to the left continues a marked path towards Sveti Trije kralji, and to the right leads the road on Zgornje Tinje), on which we diagonally ascend through the forest, and we quickly leave the forest and we walk past individual homesteads of the settlement Urh. Higher, the path returns into a dense forest, and from the right joins also unmarked path from the settlement Turiška vas na Pohorju.
We continue on the asphalt road which a little ahead makes a left hairpin turn and after the hairpint turn it brings us to a smaller crossroad, where we continue slightly right (slightly left - homestead Korant).
Next follows a shorter ascent through the forest and we get to more flat part, where on the right side we notice the church of St. Urh, which is from the road distant approximately a minute of walking.
The starting point - Veliko Tinje 1:20, Veliko Tinje - Sveti Urh 1:00.
Description refers to condition in July 2022, picture are from January and July 2022.

On the way: Visole (428m), Church of St. Peter and Paul (Veliko Tinje) (655m)