Smrečje - Vrh Svetih Treh Kraljev (footpath)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Koper highway, we take the Vrhnika exit, then continue driving on the parallel old road towards Logatec. Soon we will notice signs for Stara Vrhnika, which direct us to the right. We follow the road to Stara Vrhnika and further towards Podlipa and Velika Ligojna. After Stara Vrhnika, we leave the main road and continue left in the direction of Podlipa and Smrečje. After Podlipa, the road starts ascending more steeply, and higher up the road from Horjul joins from the right. Here we continue slightly left, following the occasionally somewhat narrower road to the sign that marks the end of the municipality of Vrhnika. Here we park in a suitable place by the road.
B) From Horjul past Vrzdenec, we drive towards Gorenja vas. In the first sharp right turn, a road branches off to the left towards the village Šentjošt nad Horjulom. We take this road and follow it to the next intersection, where we turn right (left downhill to Vrhnika). The road then soon brings us to the village Smrečje. We follow it through the village and then park on one of the smaller parking areas by the road.
C) From Škofja Loka, we drive on the regional road to Žiri, from there we take the road which runs along the Račeva river uphill in the direction of the villages Smrečje and Žirovski Vrh. We follow the road further in the direction of Smrečje and Vrh Svetih Treh Kraljev. Before we reach the village Smrečje, a road branches sharply to the right towards Vrh Svetih Treh Kraljev. We park on one of the parking areas by the road near the intersection.

Route description:
From the starting point, we continue on the asphalt road which starts moderately descending towards Žiri, after a short descent it brings us to the marked intersection, where we continue left upwards in the direction of Vrh Svetih Treh Kraljev. The road then brings us out of the forest, where the road branches off to the left towards Rovte, and we continue straight and follow the road to the spot where it returns into the forest. Here we will notice a marked footpath on the left side which moderately ascends through the forest. Higher, we cross the asphalt road and join it a little higher.
We continue the winding ascent on the asphalt road, to which from the right a marked path from Račevo jezero also joins. Only a little higher, the road splits into two parts, and we continue on the left (right Vrh Svetih Treh Kraljev past Petač), which quickly brings us to a smaller hamlet in the village. We walk past the houses, and the road quickly brings us to a boules court, where from the left a marked path from Rovte also joins. We continue right and past the Rupnik Line in a minute of additional walking we reach the mountain hut on Vrh Svetih Treh Kraljev.
From the mountain hut, we continue on the marked hiking path which starts steeply ascending through increasingly sparse forest. The path then flattens and brings us to an asphalt road, along which in a few minutes of additional walking we arrive at the panoramic summit.

Along the route: Rupnikova linija (812m), Koča na Vrhu Svetih Treh Kraljev (823m)

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