Bezgovica - Bezgarska planina

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Ribnica, and then we continue driving towards Kočevje. After Dolenja vas we continue right in the direction of the settlements Grčarice, Gotenica and Kočevska Reka. In Kočevska Reka we continue right in the direction of Borovca pri Kočevski Reki, mountain pass Strma Reber and Osilnice. In Borovec we once again continue right, and then past hamlet Ravne after a few kilometers we arrive at mountain pass Strma Reber, which is situated at an altitude of 993 m. After the mountain pass the road starts descending, and then after 19 hairpin turns it brings us to the settlement Zgornji Čačič, a few 100 m ahead also to the turn-off of the road to the village Bezgovica. We park in an appropriate place at the crossroads.
B) From Kočevje we drive towards the border crossing Petrina, and then at the end of the settlement Štalcerji we continue right towards Kočevska Reka. In Kočevska Reka we continue left in the direction of Borovca pri Kočevski Reki, mountain pass Strma Reber and Osilnice. In Borovec we continue right, and then past hamlet Ravne after a few kilometers we arrive at mountain pass Strma Reber, which is situated at an altitude of 993 m. After the mountain pass the road starts descending, and then after 19 hairpin turns it brings us to the settlement Zgornji Čačič, a few 100 m ahead also to the turn-off of the road to the village Bezgovica. We park in an appropriate place at the crossroads.
C) From Osilnica or Sel pri Osilnici we continue in the direction of the settlements Žurge, Padovo pri Osilnici, Zgornji Čačič and mountain pass Strma Reber. Before we arrive at the 1st or 19th hairpin turn, the road that leads towards the settlement Bezgovica branches off to the left. We park in an appropriate place at the crossroads.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue in the direction of the village Bezgovica, which we quickly reach. When we reach the mentioned village, at the smaller crossroads we continue slightly right, and then with nice views of Sveta Gora and Gorski Kotar we arrive at the upper part of the village, where among houses we follow the blazes. Behind the last house, we notice hiking signposts, which direct us up the slope to the path that enters the forest, through which we gradually start to ascend more steeply. After a short ascent, the path from the 18th hairpin turn of the road to Strma Reber joins us from the right, and we continue straight on the steeper path, which higher in a traversing ascent brings us to a steep gully, along which we continue the ascent. Higher, the blazes lead us left from the eroded gully onto the path that runs along the edge of an occasionally precipitous ridge. We continue the ascent along the occasionally somewhat more overgrown path, which retreats slightly to the right from the precipices, and occasionally some views open up onto the surrounding hills. A few minutes higher we reach a wide cart track, which we follow to the left until the point where it splits into two parts.
We continue along the slightly left cart track (the right cart track bypasses Bezgarska planina and leads towards the mountain pass Strma Reber), which quickly takes us out of the forest to the lower part of the mountain pasture Bezgarska planina. When we reach the mountain pasture, we walk across the meadow in a minute or two to the larger hunting observatory.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in the year 2015 (August).

On the way: Bezgovica (565m)

Trip can be extended to: Loška stena (1 h 40 min) , Firstov rep (1 h 15 min) , Cerk (1 h 55 min)