Spodnja Idrija - Gradišče (above Spodnja Idrija) (via Trnje)

Access to starting point:
From Ljubljana, we drive towards Idrija. When we come to Idrija at the second traffic light crossroad we turn right towards Spodnja Idrija (4 km). At the beginning of Spodnja Idrija before the bridge, which crosses the river Idrijca at the store we turn right on a parking lot at the culture house (a larger parking lot). We can also cross the bridge, we turn right and we park by the main road (a smaller parking lot).

Path description:
From a smaller parking lot by the main road and bridge over Idrijca we go on the asphalt road towards Pustota. After two sharp turns we come to a crossroad, where a sign for street Pot in Trnje points us left. On the left we are accompanied by hill Kopa, on the right there are remains of a swampy meadow with a small hayrack.
On the saddle between Kopa and Kazinski Grič there is a signpost. We continue right, past the hydropower plant Pečnik and a newer house, when soon behind it, we go left through a meadow to another house, and next to it again left on a cart track (above the cart track there is a fruit dryer with a projecting roof to store flax), which runs further to homestead Trnovše from the year 1798, extended in the year 1854. At that time they moved the old portal on the upper side, above the new entrance there is a hole for the statue of the Holy Family. Few meters above the homestead we notice a signpost and we continue on a cart track. After 5 minutes at the left turn we come to a crossroad, where we leave the cart track and we go right on a forest path. Higher, we go past the abandoned quarry, where they used to cut stones, and soon after this again right on a poorly visible footpath (we can continue also on a well visible path, longer path), both paths bring us to a thick spruce.
From here we go upwards towards the ridge, where after few meters of walking, at the end of the ridge we already notice a chapel of Mother of God. Chapel of Mother of God (renovated in the year 2000, Marjan Peternelj) stands on the shortest and oldest connection between Spodnja Idrija and Ledine, between the churches in Ledine and Spodnja Idrija. We go far left behind the chapel (the right or straight path higher join us) and we steeply ascend past the meadow named Zgor v gmajn to the homestead Žorgovše (a nicely renovated homestead, with a nice vantage point at the thick linden tree - Debela Lipa). We continue upwards on a cart track past Pečniški malni (the first time it was mentioned in Loški urbar in the year 1318), where there is a water catchment. Just by the cart track before the first water catchment there is a built chair for a rest.
The cart track still leads upwards, and when we come on an ample meadow, we go left through a meadow and higher we come on an asphalt road. Here again to the left on the road (right on the road we would come into Ledine), to the turn-off to the right on a marked cart track, when we are already below the foot of Gradišče. After hundred meters of walking, we go again left (right - a marked cart track). We follow the cart track (right upwards we notice a water catchment) to the hairpin turn to the right and after few meters, we go left on a poorly visible footpath. Later, the path becomes better visible and it all the time leads upwards. Just below the summit there is a short steep ascent and in front of us there is Gradišče with a transmitter.

On the way: Domačija Trnovše (400m), Kapela Matere Božje (600m), Pečniški malni (660m)