Radlje ob Dravi - Sveti Anton na MP Radelj / St. Anton am Radlpaß (via old castle)

Access to starting point:
From the road Dravograd - Maribor, in Radlje ob Dravi, from the crossroad at store Lidl, we drive in the direction of center of the settlement and mountain pass Radeljski prelaz. After the crossroad, we drive also past the store Hofer and past the turn-off of the road to the left towards Sveti Trije Kralji, and at the next crossroad left towards Austria. Immediately after the crossroad, we go once again left and we park on a larger asphalt parking lot near the mansion Dvorec Radlje.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue towards the east, where we at first carefully cross the main road Radlje ob Dravi - mountain pass Radeljski prelaz, and on the other side of the road the path splits into two parts.

We can continue left on a forest and historical trail Stari grad, or straight on the trim trail. Both paths are well marked and higher in the forest join and then also few times cross each other, and higher run on the same route. Higher, the path turns left and passes on a little steeper slope, where it is fenced with a wooden fence, and when the fence on the left ends it splits.

We continue straight (sharply right continues a trim trail, learning path and the path which leads on the old castle) and a little further we join a wide cart track which we follow to the left. When we have returned on a cart track, we again join the learning path and trim trail, and a little further from the right also marked European footpath E6 joins.

In the following we finally leave the trim trail and learning path and at the crossings we follow the yellow-red blazes. A little further, we reach the macadam road which we follow to the left, and there we are lightly descending. The path on the road leads us past the pasture and homestead Majerhof, and then blazes point us from the road slightly right on a cart track, and from which a little further we go slightly left, on at first parallel marked path, which later gradually goes away from the cart track. Later we for some time join the other cart track, and the path which leads us past numerous streams and which is for most of the time gently to moderately ascending, brings us to a crossing, by which there is a signpost.

Signs point us slightly left on the path which descends to the inn Žohar, where there is a stamp, and we continue slightly right, on a beaten, but for a short time unmarked footpath which above the inn returns on a marked path, and we reach it on a cart track which we follow to the right. Next follows a short ascent on a cart track, and then it splits, and we continue on the left, which brings us out of the forest on a panoramic meadow. On the cart track, we ascend to the road which we reach at the marked crossing by birch tree.
From the crossing, we go left towards the mountain pass Radelj (right Kapunar), and the road soon passes into the forest. In the forest, we go at first straight (sharply right farm Ternik), and then follows some more of light descent. At the next crossroad, we go once again slightly left and then we reach the main asphalt road which we follow to the right, and there we continue all the way to mountain pass Radelj.
On the mountain pass, we cross the national border, and after the buildings on the mountain pass, we continue left in the direction of Sveti Anton / St. Anton (right mountain hut Kapunerhütte). The path ahead leads us on a macadam road, and from which after the gate we go slightly left on a marked footpath. On a footpath for few minutes we continue by the national border, and then the path turns a little to the right and returns on a macadam road which continues above the quarry. With nice views we continue to a marked crossing, and from which we go right towards Sveti Anton (left Sveti Lovrenc / St. Lorenzen). Next follow two hairpin turns and some descent, and then we leave the area of a large quarry and in few minutes through the forest we ascend to the church of St. Anton.
Radlje ob Dravi - mountain pass Radelj 1:45, mountain pass Radelj - Sveti Anton 0:30.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2019 (May).

On the way: Prelaz Radelj (674m)