Parking at botanical garden - Gromovača

Access to starting point:
From the Zagreb - Split motorway, take the Otočac exit. Follow the road towards the village of Krasno and Northern Velebit. The quite winding road takes us through the village of Švica to Krasno, where the road from Senj joins (access also possible from that direction). In Krasno, continue towards the signs for Northern Velebit National Park and Zavižan hut. The road, which then becomes gravel, takes us to the park entrance, where the entrance fee is collected. Continue along the road, which takes us to the intersection at the chapel. Continue straight for another good 100m to the parking lot before the road closure near the botanical garden (botanički vrt).

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road closed to traffic initially almost flat. After a few minutes of walking, we reach a junction where the path to Gromovača (Premužičeva staza) branches off to the right. Head onto this path, which first gently ascends over a meadow and brings us into the forest after a few minutes. The path continuing through the forest runs mostly flat to the rocky slopes. Here it begins to gently ascend along the scenic slope. Further on, the path goes back into the forest and after two hours of walking from the parking lot brings us to a junction where the path to the summit of Gromovača branches off to the right. Head onto this path, which soon leaves the forest for slopes covered with brushwood. On this section, the path steeply ascends for a short time over partly rocky slopes. Only a few minutes of moderate ascent along the increasingly scenic slope of the mountain follow.