Grgar - Vodice (on the route of gas line)

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 Skalnica inn, behind which we first reach an intersection where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further to another intersection where the road towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice branches off to the left (straight Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we arrive in Grgar, where at the intersection 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 Skalnica inn, behind which we first reach an intersection where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further to another intersection where the road towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice branches off to the left (straight Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we arrive in Grgar, where at the intersection 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 intersection 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 Skalnica inn, behind which we first reach an intersection where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further to another intersection where the road towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice branches off to the left (straight Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we arrive in Grgar, where at the intersection 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 that starts a little before the parking lot and continues towards the west). We walk on the sidewalk for a short time, then at the place where the main road turns right, we continue straight onto the narrower asphalt road. We walk good 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 gas pipeline marker no. 443, from there we continue on the left road in the direction of Sveta Gora. Just a few steps further, a marked path to Sveta Gora via Križce branches left from the macadam road, while we continue straight in the direction of Sveta Gora "in the middle" (the road we leave continues to the nearby house - it is also possible to continue along the road to the isolated house).
The path ahead leads us across a smaller meadow, then brings us to a wooden footbridge over the Slatnik stream, where it splits again.
We continue slightly right (left over the footbridge to Sveta Gora) on the path that continues along the Slatna stream. A little further, we join a cart track (the cart track that continues from the above-mentioned isolated house), along which we soon reach wooden hiking signs.
From the junction, we continue right in the direction of the path via Ranjeke (left Sveta Gora), which continues along the right side (left bank) of the nearby stream. The Slatna stream, along which we walk, has carved smaller potholes, several rapids, and some pools into its bed. A little higher, we cross the stream, then ascend somewhat more steeply to the nearby cart track. When we step onto the cart track, we follow it right (poorly marked), walking along it to the wider macadam road, which we merely cross (left Preški vrh saddle, right Grgar). We continue on the path, which is quite overgrown in summer, and which soon crosses the Slatna stream. On the other side of the stream, we continue briefly through a belt of bushes and sparse forest, then step onto another macadam road, along which we soon reach a smaller intersection located just a few meters before the natural pool Gospodnjek.
From the intersection before Gospodnjek, we continue on the left road, which after two smaller weekend houses turns into a cart track that gradually transitions onto the gas pipeline route. We then ascend quite steeply along the gas pipeline route, and from the path, which in the meantime has turned from a cart track into a trail, increasingly beautiful views open towards Trnovski gozd and the surroundings. Higher up, we cross the cart track, but continue along the gas pipeline route to marker no. 447, where we also reach a sort of saddle. Here we continue left into the forest, where we spot a faint trail, along which we descend in some 10 steps to the forest road leading from Preški vrh saddle towards the summit of Vodice. From the road, a temporary nice view opens towards Sveta Gora, and we walk along it to the information board of the Vodice open-air museum.
Here, first a marked path branches right downhill towards the Vodice hamlet (15 minutes), a few meters further and then right leads the trail to the monument at the eagles (2 minutes), while left the path continues towards the summit of Vodice, where the mausoleum of General Gonzaga stands.

On the way: Gospodnjek (355m)

Trip can be extended to: Sveta Gora