Juranščina - Ivanščica (pot Kopanja)

Access to starting point:
a) We arrive in Croatia via the Gruškovje / Macelj border crossing. We leave the Macelj-Zagreb motorway near the town of Zabok. Then we continue towards Bedekovčina, Zlatar Bistrica. After the settlement of Poznanovec, we leave the main road and head towards Mače, Zlatar (Zlatar can also be reached by continuing straight and turning in the town of Zlatar-Bistrica). In the settlement of Zlatar, we will notice signs for Belec, which is about fifteen minutes away on a poorer road.
b) From Prekmurje, we drive onto the Goričan-Zagreb motorway and exit at Novi Marof. From Novi Marof, we continue towards Zlatar, but only to the town of Budinščina, where we turn onto a poorer road that brings us to the village of Belec in twenty minutes.

The official start of the trail is at the church in Belec, but from there to "our" starting point in the village of Juranščina it is a half-hour walk on asphalt.

Path description:
The trail officially starts at the parking lot by the church in the village of Belec. I recommend driving further to the village of Juranščina, as it is half an hour walk on asphalt from there. Leave the car at some junction.
From the junction, go right towards Kopanja (left path along the Brana and Belige streams, ruins of Belecgrad castle and mountain hut). After a minute of walking, the asphalt ends and we are quickly at the last house in the village and the entrance to the forest. The path is gentle. After about ten minutes of walking, the path, which has been heading north so far, makes a long bend right to the east and becomes steeper. The path now ascends on a cart track and after about twenty minutes brings us to a marked junction, where the path to the summit of Mindžalovec branches left.
Continue straight on the cart track, which rises gently. After an hour of ascent, we reach a junction, where we go sharply left onto a narrower trail towards Kopanja (straight to Židovina and Prekrižje).
The junction is well marked. After the junction, the path becomes steeper, the surface which was earth and occasionally muddy so far becomes rockier in the continuation. On the steepest part of the path, we reach a sharp right bend, after which the path becomes somewhat less steep. The path takes us from the forest to a rather steep clearing, where there is usually very annoying vegetation depending on the season. When we are back in the forest, it will be mixed. A little more ascent follows and we reach the next junction, where the path from the summit of Hanjžica joins from the left. The path now levels out and takes us to an asphalt road that leads from the supply road to the former military buildings near the summit of Ivanščica. When we step on the asphalt, go right, then after two minutes sharply left upwards. We cross a small football field and after one more minute of walking we are at the Pasarićevi hut, which is one minute below the summit of Ivanščica.

The section from the long bend to the Kopanja junction is usually very muddy after rain. The section on the clearing is usually overgrown depending on the season.

Belec - Juranščina 30 minutes (recommend driving to Juranščina)
Juranščina - Mindžalovec junction 40 minutes
Mindžalovec junction - Kopanja junction 20 minutes
Kopanja junction - Hanjžica junction 35 minutes
Hanjžica junction - summit 10 minutes