Sveti Trije kralji - Črno jezero on Pohorje
Starting point: Sveti Trije kralji (1181 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.43788°N 15.46004°E
Time of walking: 50 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 15 m
Altitude difference (by path): 115 m
Map: Pohorje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Maribor we go to the exit Slovenske Konjice, and then we follow the signs for Slovenske Konjice. From the roundabout after OMV gas station we turn to the first exit right towards Slovenska Bistrica, towards Slovenska Bistrica we drive to the turn-off of the road to the left towards Oplotnica and Osankarica. We turn towards Oplotnica and on the road we drive to the center of the settlement, where we park on one of the many parking lots in the settlement.
B) From highway Maribor - Ljubljana we go to the exit Slovenska Bistrica - south, and then we follow the signs for Slovenske Konjice. Soon after Slovenska Bistrica we turn right in the direction of Oplotnica, and then we drive to the center of Oplotnica, where we park on one of the many parking lots in the settlement.
Path description:
From the starting point, we walk to the church of the Holy Three Kings and we continue in the direction of the lake Črno jezero and the path Urškina pot and we quickly get to the nearby ski slope, by which we short time continue, and then we cross it (while the ski slope operates we cross the ski track and ski lift higher - above the cableway and ski slope). The path ahead leads us past the weather station ARSO, and we still follow the blazes, and on connecting ski track in few minutes we get to another ski track, which we also cross (by the ski slope upwards Veliki vrh). Next follows also a crossing of a ski lift and one more ski track, and then the path comes into the forest, where after few minutes of additional walking, we get to the cross, by which there is a learning board of the path Urškina pot. The path ahead slowly descends and it brings us to a marked crossing, where we choose the left path (straight - Šumik and Ruška koča), where we continue in the direction of Osankarica and lake Črno jezero. Further, we are still gently to moderately descending and we follow the blazes. When the descent ends, we get to a crossing near the lake Črno jezero.
We continue straight (left Oplotnica - path via Kos) and in few steps we get to the lake.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in April 2022.
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