Stranice - Stolpnik (via Grofov štant)

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 that 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. From the roundabout in Stranice we continue straight, just a little after the road sign that 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.

Path description:
From the parking lot we return along the sidewalk to the main road, then continue left towards the roundabout. From the roundabout, or even a little further ahead, 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, and 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 starting from the memorial park of the 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 a few steps we go right uphill onto the marked footpath. Further on the blazes are more frequent, and we follow them during the ascent through the forest. Higher we reach a forest road, which we only cross (right hunting cottage Štepih and Stolpnik past the mentioned hunting cottage) and continue the ascent on a gradually gentler path. Soon the trail begins to turn more to the left, where it also becomes more overgrown and poorly marked. Along the path, which for quite some time crosses occasionally overgrown slopes, we notice some signs for the XIV Division trail. The mentioned trail then joins the road, which we follow to the left, and we walk along it to the nearby junction (Grofov štant) beside which there is a marked crossroads.
We continue sharply right in the direction of Stolpnik (left Slovenske Konjice, straight Vojnik and Dramlje), which is still about half an hour of walking away. The path ahead starts to ascend more steeply, then flattens out entirely for a short time. A gentle descent follows and then a few minutes of moderate ascent, and the path, which mostly runs through dense forest, quickly brings us to the summit, on which stands a 25 m high lookout tower.

On the way: Bukovlje (491m), Čretvež (534m), Grofov štant (805m)