Grgar - Sveta Gora (via Križce)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Nova Gorica, then continue driving towards Tolmin and Kobarid. We follow the main road towards Tolmin only to Solkan, where at the traffic-light intersection we continue right in the direction of Sveta Gora and Grgar. The ascending road further leads past the Solkan quarry, then a little higher it turns sharply to the right and brings us to the inn Gostilna Skalnica, behind which we first reach a crossroads, where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further to another crossroads, where slightly to the left the road continues towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice (slightly right Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we arrive in Grgar, where at the crossroads by the NOB monument we continue straight to the nearby sports ground by the primary school, next to which we park on a larger parking lot.
B) From Tolmin or Most na Soči we drive on the main road towards Nova Gorica, then only a little before Nova Gorica, more precisely at the traffic-light intersection in Solkan, we turn left in the direction of Sveta Gora and Grgar. The ascending road further leads past the Solkan quarry, then a little higher it turns sharply to the right and brings us to the inn Gostilna Skalnica, behind which we first reach a crossroads, where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further to another crossroads, where slightly to the left the road continues towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice (slightly right Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we arrive in Grgar, where at the crossroads by the NOB monument we continue straight to the nearby sports ground by the primary school, next to which we park on a larger parking lot.
C) From Goriška Brda we drive to Solkan, where at the first crossroads after the new Solkan bridge we continue straight in the direction of Sveta Gora. The ascending road further leads past the Solkan quarry, then a little higher it turns sharply to the right and brings us to the inn Gostilna Skalnica, behind which we first reach a crossroads, where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further to another crossroads, where slightly to the left the road continues towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice (slightly right Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we arrive in Grgar, where at the crossroads by the NOB monument we continue straight to the nearby sports ground by the primary school, next to which we park on a larger parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return to the NOB monument, from there we continue on the left road (viewed from the direction of access to the starting point, if we came from the direction of Nova Gorica), to which a "shortcut" soon joins from the right (from the parking lot we do not need to go to the monument, as a shorter road leads here, which starts a little before the parking lot and continues towards the west). For a short time we walk on the sidewalk, then at the place where the main road turns right we continue straight onto the narrower asphalt road. We walk about 50 meters on the mentioned road, then the signs for Sveta Gora direct us left onto another road, where we first bypass the "last" house, then the road continues across the meadow. We walk on the asphalt to the sign for gas pipeline No. 443, from where we continue on the left road in the direction of Sveta Gora. Just a few steps further, we turn left from the macadam road in the direction of the marked path to Sveta Gora via Križce (straight ahead to Sveta Gora via Ranjeke, via Sredi and via Frančiškov hrib).
We continue the path on the cart track, on which we quickly reach a stone fence, next to it the Slatnik stream, which we cross, then on the other side we continue more to the left. This is followed by crossing a wider cart track, at the same time crossing the route of the power line. This is followed by an ascent through the forest on a less beaten but initially still easily traceable path, along which we also notice some blazes. Higher up, on the section where the path transitions from the northeast to the southeast slope, the path starts to get lost among the thorns. This is followed by searching for passages among the thorns, or on some sections we have to push through the overgrown path. A little further on, we reach the slope where there was a fire a few years ago, and the path from here on is again easier to follow. This is followed by a gentle traverse ascent, then we reach the asphalt road that leads towards the summit of Sveta Gora.
On the road we walk past some Stations of the Cross, then, when the road turns sharply to the right, we continue straight on the footpath, which higher up returns to the road. When we return to the road, the path takes us past the chapel of Pieta renovated in 2015, behind which we continue on the stepped path. Past the last Station of the Cross, we then quickly reach the cemetery, from there in a few dozen steps to the summit of Sveta Gora, from which a beautiful view opens up reaching all the way to the Julian Alps.

Trip can be extended to: Vodice