Toll booths on Vršič and in Vrata
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| dprapr14. 10. 2025 08:40:30 |
This two lanes thing is really top ingenuity. Does anyone know elsewhere or are we first in the world again? No wonder drivers are confused in trial period. They will soon abolish it when there are queues in Kranjska Gora.
Wouldn't it be simpler just to put a traffic light with available parking at Vršič? If free, you park, if not, you drive on. They will need parking control anyway, despite two lanes.
That parking price at Vršič will be high, I didn't doubt that at all. Of course it will be higher than comparable parking abroad. Other prices are rising too.
Looks like ordinary hill folk with low incomes will have to hike from the valley, like in the past. Everything returns if people don't decide right.
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| Daaam14. 10. 2025 09:01:49 |
I agree, Drago. The system is totally stupid - meaning if it's full up top you won't be able to get a ticket, in 15 minutes drive up a few spots will free up but you won't be allowed to park because you won't have a ticket or what? People already can't drive through "turbo roundabouts", so here it'll be even worse chaos... Anyway, I give them a year or two until everything "ornk" inside barriers is payable - then it can be just one lane again  We sold nature! The worst is that with all these ramps and whatever you still have to pay parking fees so as a visitor you have "zero" options to treat yourself to a free nature walk, which should be our common good. How did Bohinci write it somewhere.. Day tourists anyway just bring trash...
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| ppegan14. 10. 2025 09:03:04 |
I admit these barriers don't bother me much, since I've been avoiding Vršič a lot already, because I don't like crowds and chaos. Even when going to Bovec, I went via Predel, it's a really comfortable road, definitely better than the hairpin turns over Vršič. Plus there are so many other (free) starting points where there's no crowd and you have peace the whole day 
If I understand correctly, you'll still be able to go through normally as transit, then leave the car e.g. at Koča na Gozdu or at Mihov dom, where no payment is needed, especially if you drink and eat something there after the tour. At Erjavčeva koča you have to pay, right? Actually only the top parking will be paid, elsewhere it stays the same as now.
The expensive parking is to prevent long-term parking, tourists will park for an hour or two, consequently more cars will turn at Vršič, and yes, as Drago says, hikes to surrounding mountains will be from lower starting points (that's the trend everywhere - if you pay, starting point is closer, if not, you walk farther to it, consequently the tour is longer). And don't think I support expensive parking, far from it. But I don't worry, because I haven't been there for a long time and won't be.
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| sla14. 10. 2025 09:17:34 |
Of course, since you don't climb or ski, it doesn't bother you.
Those of us who do, these barriers bother us a lot.
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| magroman14. 10. 2025 09:46:23 |
I agree with Daaam, can't make a stupider system and soon everything will be paid and they can close all 5 huts soon. And we know it's all because of €nature 
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| ppegan14. 10. 2025 09:50:00 |
I hike to hills/mountains, also ski touring, but true, to a much smaller extent than 10 years ago Regarding ski touring from Vršič don't worry, barriers will be down only in summer season, rest of time up and you can drive higher if road is cleared. If not, start from 2nd hairpin and hop on skis, I've done it a few times and survived
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| asdf14. 10. 2025 13:53:54 |
Yes, the Anti-Mountaineering Association of Slovenia really takes good care of us:
"Vice President of the Alpine Association of Slovenia Martin Šolar rated the regime as now planned good. But he warned that in future too it will be necessary to ensure stopping and parking at alpine huts or starting points for ascents below the pass.
No parking along the road and ditches. A good part of the road below the pass summit should be fenced on both sides, preventing roadside parking. But consistent control lower on the road will be needed, as people will likely seek parking options there too, Šolar thought."
https://www.rtvslo.si/lokalne-novice/gorenjska/na-vrsic-od-ponedeljka-skozi-dve-zapornici/760063
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| zlatica14. 10. 2025 20:35:16 |
Last week I heard on the radio how the system is supposed to work. As I kinda understood, for now the parking system on Vršič is not linked to the lowering of cars down to KG through barriers, where you're supposed to get the ticket. In that case the question remains open for me, what to do at the top if there's no parking, but you arrive with a parking ticket. It seemed totally illogical to me that no one even asked about it. In the end one of those presenting and praising the system just said, if it jams, they'll have to connect the parking system with the entry at barriers. Hellooo? Only then? Isn't that basic? And that's totally amateurish for my taste. They can't even present the system in all details in the presentation, let alone it working properly. 
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| gams115. 10. 2025 09:02:03 |
The essence is cashing in on parking fees (municipal revenue), not in parking and traffic management.
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| andrejp15. 10. 2025 10:02:16 |
The problem is also that below the ramp there are other starting points that have nothing to do with parking on Vršič. It would really be necessary to check if these ramps in Vrata and Vršič even have legal basis. This is just for ,,cashing in,, cash and nothing else.....and soon only ,,rich,, will hike to mountains, because everyone will start doing the same....I'm afraid!!!!!
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| LISAC15. 10. 2025 10:20:02 |
Maybe someone knows how parking will look during the regime and outside it e.g. at Ruski križ (2nd hairpin from Jasna KG) where if you were early it was understandable for serious long tours to park roadside opposite the embankment without payment? Thanks. Sad really.
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| miri15. 10. 2025 10:30:29 |
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| sneg15. 10. 2025 10:54:10 |
Ramps at trailheads for hiking paths, abnormally high parking fees.... inaccessibility for overnight stays in mountain huts for local hikers despite the proposal to allocate half the mountain hut to local hikers, half to tourists they invite via
tourist agencies - this proposal was of course not accepted, where does such PZS behavior lead?
LP
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| sneg15. 10. 2025 10:54:14 |
Ramps at trailheads for hiking paths, abnormally high parking fees.... inaccessibility for overnight stays in mountain huts for local hikers despite the proposal to allocate half the mountain hut to local hikers, half to tourists they invite via
tourist agencies - this proposal was of course not accepted, where does such PZS behavior lead?
LP
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| ppegan15. 10. 2025 12:34:38 |
If I understand this 24ur article correctly, then elsewhere except the pass itself where payment is needed, parking will proceed as before. So it will still be possible to park free at Ruski križ, but you must take a transit ticket.
If I'm wrong, someone correct me
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| trentarski15. 10. 2025 12:57:31 |
Barriers at Vršič are "state project" - from Pišnica to Zadnja Trenta. It is naive to expect they will limit themselves to just the pass top. For that no barriers were needed. Where and what will be paid depends on state policy and especially public pressure on policy.
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| LISAC15. 10. 2025 13:34:44 |
ppegan, I also am not sure if it will be so...?
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| mavi1215. 10. 2025 13:37:43 |
"Can't wait" for them to start charging for transit too in about 2 years.... because... dunno... environmental protection? 
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| asdf15. 10. 2025 13:40:08 |
ppegan: In the scope of this renovation, they are also putting up fences along some parts where parking was possible until now. So if parking was possible somewhere until now, it won't necessarily be possible further on.
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| LISAC15. 10. 2025 13:42:31 |
And what can local mountaineers or PZS members collectively even do in the mentioned case...?
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