Stranice - Hunting cottage Štepih

Access to starting point:
A) We leave the Ljubljana–Maribor highway at the Celje East exit, then follow the signs for Vojnik and further to Frankolovo and Slovenske Konjice. When the settlement Spodnje Stranice ends, still before the road sign which marks the beginning of the settlement Stranice, we turn left in the direction of the primary school, kindergarten, cemetery, fire station, Dom krajanov... There follows only a shorter drive to the arranged parking lot near Dom krajanov and the cemetery.
B) We leave the Maribor–Ljubljana highway at the Slovenske Konjice exit, then follow the signs for Slovenske Konjice, later Stranice and Vojnik. At the roundabout in Stranice we continue straight, just a little after the road sign which marks the end of the settlement Stranice we turn right in the direction of the primary school, kindergarten, cemetery, fire station, Dom krajanov... There follows only a shorter drive to the arranged parking lot near Dom krajanov and the cemetery.

Route description:
From the parking lot we return along the sidewalk to the main road, then continue left towards the roundabout. From the roundabout, or already a little further, we head onto the road in the direction of the settlement Bukovlje. In a gentle to moderate ascent we continue through the mentioned settlement, where along the path we notice only rare blazes. When the settlement ends, the path leads us through the forest; when we arrive at the hamlet Čretvež we go slightly right. A little further we arrive at a marked junction, where we join the path from the starting point at the memorial park of a hundred hostages, and we continue straight in the direction of Stolpnik. Along the asphalt road we arrive at the Kersnik homestead, behind which we go right onto a side road. On the other side of the homestead the signs for Stolpnik direct us left onto a cart track, from the cart track after just a few steps we go right uphill onto a marked footpath. Further on the blazes are more frequent, and we follow them during the ascent through the forest.
Higher we step onto a forest road and follow it right towards the hunting cottage Štepih (straight on the footpath Stolpnik via Grofov štant). We continue the path along the macadam road, along which in about 15 minutes of further walking we arrive at a junction, where we go left, then quickly arrive at the already mentioned hunting cottage.
Stranice - Čretvež 0:50, Čretvež - hunting cottage 1:00.

Along the route: Bukovlje (491m), Čretvež (534m)

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