Mače - St. Miklavž above Mače

Access to starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway take the Kranj - east exit, then continue driving towards Jezersko. When arriving in Preddvor leave the main road and continue left towards the centre of the mentioned place, from there follow the signs for Mače. When arriving in Mače, at the marked junction continue right (left Bašelj, straight cerkev sv. Miklavža (the church is not accessible by car)) and drive up the narrow road above the village, where there is a larger marked parking lot.
b) From the Jesenice - Ljubljana motorway take the Kranj - west exit and at the first junction continue left. Continue driving through the underpass under the motorway, then arrive at the roundabout, from which continue driving towards Golnik. The road ahead leads through the settlement Mlaka pri Kranju, we, at the end of the settlement, continue right towards the settlement Srakovlje. Driving continues through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela to Zgornja Bela, where we continue right towards Preddvor. In Preddvor notice the signs for Mače, which direct us left past the primary school to the road that ascends to Mače. When arriving in Mače, at the marked junction continue right (left Bašelj, straight cerkev sv. Miklavža (the church is not accessible by car)) and drive up the narrow road above the village, where there is a larger marked parking lot.

Route description:
From the parking lot above Mače return along the asphalt road back to the village centre, from there continue towards sv. Miklavž (the road junction in the village centre towards sv. Miklavž is well marked). From the village centre continue along the dead-end street and begin a moderate ascent along it. The road soon flattens and leads us to a place where we notice the next sign for sv. Miklavž, which this time directs us left onto a road leading past a few courtyards to the nearby stream. Before descending to the stream, the next sign directs us right, where we continue past a garage and along a concrete embankment. When the already deteriorating road descends right to the Suha stream, we cross it over a small wooden bridge. On the other side of the bridge we climb to the edge of the courtyard of the nearby residential house, then continue right, where we begin to ascend along the mesh fence. After a short ascent we step onto the edge of a larger hay meadow, from where a nice view opens to Tolsti vrh and Storžič. Continue along the edge of the forest or right along the meadow to the place where the path returns to the forest. When entering the forest the path widens into a cart track, we follow it for only about 10 steps, then go right onto a well-trodden path. A little further we reach the next cart track, which we cross diagonally to the left.
From the cart track onwards we ascend on a moderately steep path that quickly takes us out of the forest onto a larger meadow below the church of sv. Miklavž. From there only a short ascent follows and we are at the little church, from which a nice view opens to the Gorenjska settlements, Polhograjsko and Škofjeloško hills and on good visibility also to Triglav.

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Planina Kališče (2 h 10 min), Dom na Kališču (2 h 25 min), Mali Grintovec (3 h 40 min)

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