Planina (Dolnja Planina) - Grmada (Planinska gora) (via Zavrtniki)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Koper we go to the exit Unec, and then we continue driving in the direction of Planina. In Planina, where we join the old road Logatec - Postojna we continue left, and we drive on the main road only a few 10 meters, because then immediately after the parish church of St. Marjeta we turn left onto a parking lot at the church.
B) From Logatec or Idrija we drive to Kalc pri Logatcu, and from there we continue driving on the old road towards Postojna. At the beginning of Planina the road from Unec also joins from the left, and from here we continue on the main road only a few 10 meters, because then immediately after the parish church of St. Marjeta we turn left onto a parking lot at the church.
C) We drive to Postojna, and then we continue driving on the old road towards Logatec. At the end of the settlement Planina we will get to the parish church of St. Marjeta, where we park on a parking lot next to it.

Path description:
From the parking lot we first walk to the main road, which we carefully cross, then we continue on the road which continues in the opposite direction to the church. The road quickly turns into a cart track, which moderately ascends through the area named Zavrtniki. For a few minutes we ascend with nice views on Planinsko polje, then the path takes us into the forest, where we notice the first signs for Planinska gora. A few meters higher we cross a macadam road, and two additional signposts direct us to a cart track ascending through the forest. For a few minutes we ascend on the mentioned cart track, then the signs direct us left onto a footpath that gently ascends to the left. A little further we arrive at a junction of several cart tracks, where we continue straight (left down to Planina past the ruins of the church of the Holy Spirit, right forest cart track) on the wider cart track, along which we notice a few yellow arrows (yellow arrows are a kind of marking). A few steps further we continue on the left cart track, which then moderately ascends. During the ascent the path leads us past several landmarks (smaller chapels or crosses by the path), then from the left the path from the quarry joins us.
Here we continue right and in a few minutes of further walking we ascend to the church of Holy Mary on Planinska gora.
At the church we step onto a macadam road along which we continue the ascent. After a good 10 minutes of further walking we will notice a cart track on the right side that leads us to extensive grassy slopes. Across the mentioned slopes we walk on a somewhat worse cart track that directs us slightly right. After a few 10 steps of pleasant walking the path brings us to a viewpoint from which a wonderful view opens onto Planinsko polje.
Near the viewpoint, at the edge of the forest we notice an unmarked mountain path that directs us sharply right, along which in 3 minutes of walking we ascend to the forest-covered peak of Grmada.

On the way: Sveta Marija na Planinski gori (782m)