Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici - Gomila

Access to starting point:
A) From the Maribor - Lendava highway, we take the Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici exit, then follow the signs for the mentioned settlement, where we park in the center of the settlement on a well-maintained asphalt parking lot below the parish church of St. Jurij, by the bus stop and confectionery Jasmina. There are two parking lots, one by the main road, and another somewhat larger approximately 60 meters aside.
B) We drive to Ptuj, then follow the signs towards Gornja Radgona and Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici, along the main road to the settlement Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici, where we park in the center of the settlement on a well-maintained asphalt parking lot below the parish church of St. Jurij, by the bus stop and confectionery Jasmina. There are two parking lots, one by the main road, and another somewhat larger approximately 60 meters aside.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we walk to the main road, carefully cross it at the pedestrian crossing, then continue on the sidewalk by the road which leads towards Lenart v Slovenskih goricah. First, we bypass the parish church of St. Jurij on the right side, then the sidewalk continues only on the right side of the road, where we also go past the primary school Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici. The path further leads us through the settlement Blaguš, where at the hunting lodge LD Videm ob Ščavnici the sidewalk ends. Here we carefully go again to the left side of the road and further walk through the forest. When we arrive at the marked intersection, where to the left a road branches off towards the settlements Sovjak, Ženik, Kokolajnščak, Stara Gora, Kutinci and Galušak, and to the right downwards a marked path branches off towards Blaguško jezero, we continue left.
From the intersection, by which there are also signs for the educational path, we quickly arrive at the settlement Brezje through which we easily ascend, during the path accompanied by occasional blazes and information boards of the educational path. A little further ahead, at a smaller intersection we go left upwards in the direction of Stara Gora and educational path, but we immediately behind the intersection arrive at the settlement Ženik. From here there follows still some ascent, then the quite panoramic road which leads us among occasional houses flattens out. In the second part of the settlement Ženik the path begins to descend lightly, then we continue along an indistinct ridge, where nice views of the Slovenske gorice accompany us. There follows still a few minutes of walking and slight ascent and we arrive at the settlement Stara Gora, where a little further from the inn Janja is the Church of the Holy Spirit. At the Church of the Holy Spirit we go right in the direction of Gomila and gradually begin to descend. First we go past a windmill, then descend beside fields and individual farms. Lower we reach another road, which we follow to the left and along it walk without major elevation changes to the intersection, where we reach the main road Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici - Ptuj.
We follow the road right towards Ptuj, along it we walk a few minutes or until the place where the blazes direct us left onto a side road, beside which there are also signs for vinotoč. There follows an ascent along the asphalt road which leads us between individual houses of nearby hamlets, where at intersections we follow the blazes. Higher the asphalt ends, a few minutes further we arrive at the settlement Grabšinci, where the road becomes asphalt again. There follow some shorter ascents and descents, at intersections we still follow the blazes. Later we arrive at the settlement Mali Moravščak, a little further to the intersection where we reach a somewhat wider road which we follow to the right. Along the mentioned road we continue only a few minutes, then still before the next intersection go left into the forest, where for a short time we ascend along the forest path, then return to the asphalt road which we follow uphill (to the right we would return to the mentioned intersection).
A few minutes we still moderately ascend and walk past houses, higher from the left paths from Rucmanci and Trnovci join.
There follows only some 10 steps of walking and we arrive at Okrepčevalnica pri Stolpu, a few steps further also to the lookout tower on Gomila.
Description and pictures refer to the condition of June 2020 and January 2022.

On the way: Blaguš (234m), Brezje (261m), Ženik (266m), Church of the Holy Spirit (Stara Gora) (262m), Terbegovci (215m), Piviči (275m), Grabšinci (289m), Mali Moravščak (295m)