Preddvor - Planinska koča Iskra na Jakobu (on marked path)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we take the exit Kranj - east, and then we continue driving in the direction of Jezersko. When we arrive in Preddvor we leave the main road and continue driving left, and then immediately after the small bridge over the Bistrica we park on the parking lot on the left side of the road. The parking lot is located on the outer side of the Jelovica complex.
B) From the highway Jesenice - Ljubljana we take the exit Kranj - west and at the first intersection we continue left. We then drive through the underpass under the highway, and then we arrive at a roundabout, from which we continue driving in the direction of Golnik. The route ahead leads us through the settlement Mlaka pri Kranju, but at the end of the settlement we continue right in the direction of the settlement Srakovlje. This is followed by driving through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela to Zgornja Bela, where we continue right towards Preddvor. At the end of Preddvor, just some 10 m before the road joins the main road Zgornje Jezersko - Kranj, we will notice a larger macadam parking lot by the Jelovica complex, where we park.

Route description:
From the parking lot we first carefully cross the road, then continue on a narrower asphalt road in the direction of the villages Potoče and Hrib, lake Črnava, Hotel Bor and castle Hrib as well as St. Jakob and Potoška gora. Immediately after crossing the road we leave Preddvor and via a small bridge we enter the village Hrib, through which the road begins first gently, then moderately to ascend. When the settlement ends, on the right soon a nice view opens towards Storžič, Cjanovci, Hudičev boršt, St. Jakob and also the elevation Senčnica Josipine Turnograjske. A little further ahead the road levels out and brings us to an intersection, where we continue straight in the direction of Senčnica Josipine Turnograjske, Novi grad (Pusti grad), St. Jakob and Potoška gora (left lake Črnava, Hotel Bor, castle Hrib, right Home for the Elderly Citizens of Preddvor) and continue on the ascending asphalt road. A little higher, at the chapel, a path from the center of Preddvor joins from the left, but we continue right, past a few houses to the fence of the Home for the Elderly Citizens of Preddvor. Here the road turns left and leads inter alia to the nearby parking lot, but we continue on the footpath that continues along the fence.
A well-marked path, which we follow in the direction of Senčnica Josipine Turnograjske, takes us into the forest, through which it begins to ascend more steeply. Through the forest we ascend quite steeply for a few minutes, then the path levels out and brings us to Senčnica Josipine Turnograjske, where there is also a logbook box with a logbook.
From the top a short descent follows on a forest path, then we reach a forest road, which we follow to the left, on which we descend lightly for a short time. Soon we reach another wider road (road that leads from the parking lot near the Home for the Elderly Citizens of Preddvor and which bypasses Senčnica Josipine Turnograjske), which we cross slightly to the left, where at the entrance into the forest we notice red mountain signposts (to here also possible on the previously mentioned road).
We continue in the direction of the ruins of Novi grad (Pusti grad) and footpaths towards St. Jakob and Potoška gora. The path ahead ascends moderately through a forested valley, then splits into two parts.
We continue slightly right in the direction of St. Jakob, Potoška gora and Javorov vrh (left Novi grad (Pusti grad) and Juhantova pot) on the path which from the valley gradually withdraws more and more to the right. The marked path, which occasionally ascends more steeply, further on crosses a forest road several times, which leads towards St. Jakob, Planinska koča pri Franciju and Planinska koča Iskra na Jakobu. When higher, at the red sign we step onto the road again, and on it we continue left. We walk some 10 m on the road, then continue slightly right in the direction of Planinska koča Iskra na Jakobu (straight Planinska koča pri Franciju). A few more minutes of ascent follow and from the right the path "by road" joins us. We continue left and the path brings us out of the forest to a marked junction, where we continue on the left lower path in the direction of St. Jakob (right Potoška gora, Javorov vrh...). Only a few minutes of gentle ascent follow and the path first brings us to the church of St. Jakob, a few steps further to Planinska koča Iskra na Jakobu.

Along the route: Senčnica Josipine Turnograjske (570m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Mihčeva kopišča, Baba, Potoška gora, Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu, Javorov vrh, Dom na Kališču, Cjanovca, Srednji vrh

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