Dolina Gračnice (Blatnik) - Sveti Jošt (below Lisca)

Access to starting point:
We drive to Rimske Toplice, where we follow the signs to the railway station. From the railway station, we drive along the road leading further towards Gračnica and Podklošter, and soon through an underpass it passes to the eastern side of the railway line. At the confluence of Gračnica and Savinja, we arrive at an intersection next to which we notice the first hiking signposts. We continue left in the direction of Lisca and Lovrenc, and then drive along the Gračnica valley. Later the road leads past the NOB memorial park, but we drive another few 100 m further to the intersection, where we turn right over the bridge. Immediately after the bridge, we notice red hiking signposts, where the described trail begins.
There are no designated parking spaces for hikers here, but there are some parking possibilities higher up along the road.

Route description:
From the bridge, we head onto a side road marked for Lisca and Lovrenc; the path first leads past the Blatnik farmstead, where there is a stamp, but we continue along the gentle asphalt road that takes us through the Lokovec settlement, where the path follows the valley along the Lokavški stream. Further on, houses along the road become more frequent, and we reach a marked intersection by a chapel, where we turn right onto the road following the signs for sv. Lovrenc (left to sv. Kolman).
We continue ascending along the Lokavški stream, walking on the asphalt road to an intersection where a gravel road branches right from the asphalt.
We proceed between the two roads on the marked path, which enters the forest and turns slightly left, following the markers at junctions. Higher up, we briefly join a cart track, then go steeply uphill on constructed steps. We ascend steeply for a while, then the path levels out somewhat; higher up there are a few more junctions where we cross a cart track or follow the markers. At about 600 m above sea level, we reach a somewhat wider cart track that soon leads along the right side of the Dežan farmstead. Here we get a nice view of the surroundings, and the path ascends transversely left behind the farmstead. As we approach the Centrih farm, the path turns sharply right and brings us to a marked junction west of the farm.
Here a path branches right towards Veliki Kozji, but we continue left towards Lovrenc and Lisca, skirting the farm on the right side.
A little further, we reach a chapel, where paths from Radeče and Breg join from the right; we continue towards Lisca and ascend along the fenced area to the church of sv. Lovrenc, from which a nice view opens up.
We bypass the church on the right side and descend along a fenced path beside a meadow to a gravel road, which we follow right; at the nearby intersection, we turn right again. We then descend the asphalt road; at the end of the meadow on the left, we turn left onto the marked path that continues along the right edge of the meadow; when the path enters the forest, we follow the markers. There follows some gentle to moderate ascent through the forest; when we leave the forest, a nice view opens up. Here there is a short steep descent, and lower down the path forks.
We take the left, longer path where the markers continue (the straight path goes across private land); we ascend the cart track to a gravel road, which we follow right.
From the gravel road, we soon go right downhill on the access path to the nearby house; before reaching the house, we go straight onto a path that ascends the western to southwestern grassy slopes of Njivce hill. Higher up, the path enters the forest, where we cross the southern wooded slopes with little change in elevation, then from the cart track go right downhill to a footpath that lower down takes us to a meadow, across which we descend transversely. When the path levels out, there is still a crossing through a strip of forest, and we reach an asphalt road, which we follow right towards Lisca. There follows some walking along the asphalt road with occasional views; when we return to the forest, we leave the road right towards Lisca, and a little further cross the asphalt road again. There follows walking through a strip of bushes and low forest, then we reach another asphalt road and continue ascending along it. When the road continuing towards Lisca turns left, we turn right onto a cart track, which immediately forks. We take the left cart track, which leads uphill past a chapel from 1900; when higher up we reach the ridge connecting Zlaški hrib with Lisca, we go left (here the usual path from Breg to Lisca joins from the right), and just one or two minutes further, past another marked junction, we arrive at the church of sv. Jošt.
We continue left from the church towards Lisca, first ascending transversely through the forest to the left, then the path turns right and ascends transversely to the right. A bit further, several other paths from the direction of Sevnica join from the right; we continue straight, where a little higher we leave the forest and walk along the lower edge of a larger meadow to Tončkov dom on Lisca, then quickly ascend past Jurčkova koča on Lisca to the panoramic summit of Lisca.

Starting point - Centrih farm 1:40, Centrih farm - sv. Lovrenc 0:05, sv. Lovrenc - junction below sv. Jošt 1:10, junction below sv. Jošt - sv. Jošt 0:05, sv. Jošt - junction below Lisca 0:15, junction below Lisca - Lisca 0:10.

The description refers to the condition in April 2026, the photos are from May 2025 and April 2026.

Along the route: Blatnik (224m), Križišče ob kapelici (277m), Dežan (614m), Centrih (697m), Kapelica na Lovrencu (691m), Sveti Lovrenc (above Okroglice) (722m), Lesa (684m), Rebeze (681m), Na vrhu (669m), Blatnik (725m), Kamrica (729m), Sele Imperl (655m), Most pod Selami (655m), Razpotje pod sv. Joštom (768m)

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