Poljana - Volinjak (via Leše churches and Prapar)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Ravne na Koroškem, and then we continue driving towards Mežica. After Prevalje we will get to the smaller settlement Poljana, where we park on the parking lot opposite the church of St. John the Baptist. By the parking lot there is an NOB monument and Kocka bar.
B) From Črna na Koroškem we drive towards Mežica and further towards Ravne na Koroškem. In the settlement Poljana, just a little after the crossroad where the road towards Austria branches off to the left, before the church of St. John the Baptist we turn left onto the parking lot by the NOB monument and Kocka bar.
C) From the direction of Austria through the border crossing Holmec we drive into Slovenia, and after a few kilometers at the crossroad we turn left towards Ravne na Koroškem. Just a little after the crossroad where we join the road Mežica - Prevalje, before the church of St. John the Baptist we turn left onto the parking lot by the NOB monument and Kocka bar.

Route description:
From the starting point, we carefully cross the quite busy road Prevalje - Mežica, and then at the crossroad of two macadam roads we continue on the left one, which continues behind the church of St. John the Baptist. Behind the church we once again continue right, and then we lightly descend to the bridge over the river Meža. On the other side of the bridge we go left, and then on a tree we notice a signpost which directs us right into the forest. After a short ascent on a cart track the path splits, and we choose the slightly left path in the direction of Leše churches (right Volinjak).
We continue the path on a cart track which ascends diagonally towards the left, and at the junctions we follow the yellow markers. Higher the forest ends and ahead of us we already see the Leše churches, to which only a short walk separates us.
Behind the churches we continue right on a footpath which higher enters the forest, and then after a short ascent it joins a macadam road. On the road we lightly ascend and already after a few 10 meters we arrive at a marked crossroad, where we continue on the right road in the direction of Stovčnik and Prapar (on the slightly left road we arrive in Mežica and also at Volinjak). Just a little further the road splits again, and this time we choose the left road which bypasses the Prapar farm on the upper side (on some markers also Praper). Further we walk on the road which leads towards the Stovčnik farm, on it first under the power line route, then through the forest. When we are in the forest we continue left onto a cart track, along which we soon notice yellow arrows (at the place where we leave the road, there are usually hay bales). The path ahead leads us on a cart track, to which at the junctions we follow in the direction of yellow lines or arrows. Higher the cart track turns into a steep footpath which soon brings us to the ridge, and on the ridge in a few minutes the path past the Stovčnik farm also joins us.
The path ahead also leads past the statue of St. Mary, and then we quickly ascend to the partly panoramic summit.
Poljana - Leše churches 45 minutes, Leše churches - Volinjak 40 minutes.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2017 (February).

Along the route: Leški cerkvi (674m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Andrejev vrh

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