Graz Center West - Buchkogel (Rudolfswarte) (via St. Martin)

Access to starting point:
Highway Maribor - Graz (A9) we leave at exit Graz, then at the roundabout, we choose 1st exit in the direction of St. Peter / Puntigam / Center West.
At the next traffic light crossroad we turn left and immediately after this again left. We drive to the last building of shopping center, where we park.

Path description:
We continue on the road, left from the parking lot, past the last building of the shopping center Center West.
After approximately 50 meters we leave the road and we turn left on a footpath which further leads left by tennis courts to the underpass.
We go through the underpass, then right to the traffic light. At the back we see the hill Buchkogel. We cross a road. We continue straight on street in the direction of the mentioned hill.
At all crossroads we go straight. In between we pass secured railway passage.
We cross the traffic light crossroad. On the other side, we go at first left and after this immediately right.
At the end of the street we turn into the forest on a steep, marked forest path. In 10 minutes we get to the parking lot.
From the parking lot, we notice the church, to which we come on stairs or on the road.
At the church, we turn right and we continue straight on the road steep uphill.
Before the gate signposts point us to the left in the forest. At the next crossings we stick to the right and we walk on a marked mountain path.
When we step on a wider forest cart track, we continue straight in the direction of "Rudolfswarte". In the next two crossings we stick to the left, in doing so we leave the marked mountain path (because in the summer time it is quite overgrown).
Then we two more times cross the road. On the east ridge we get to the top of the hill.

On the way: Sv. Martin (Gradec) / St. Martin (Graz) (411m)

Trip can be extended to: St. Johann und Paul ( 30 min) , Fürstenstand (Plabutsch) (2 h 30 min)