Grgar - Sveta Gora (via Frančiškov hrib)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Nova Gorica, and then we continue driving towards Tolmin and Kobarid. Main road towards Tolmin we follow only to Solkan, where at the traffic light crossroad we continue right in the direction of Sveta Gora and Grgar. An ascending road further leads past the quarry Solkan, after that a little higher turns sharply to the right and it brings us to the inn Skalnica, behind which we first get to a crossroad, where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further also to a crossroad, where the road towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice branches off to the left (straight Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we get to Grgar, where at the crossroad by NOB monument we continue straight to the nearby sports field by the primary school, by which we park on a large parking lot.
B) From Tolmin or Most na Soči we drive on the main road towards Nova Gorica, after that only a little before Nova Gorica, more precisely at the traffic light crossroad in Solkan we turn left in the direction of Sveta Gora and Grgar. An ascending road further leads past the quarry Solkan, after that a little higher turns sharply to the right and it brings us to the inn Skalnica, behind which we first get to a crossroad, where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further also to a crossroad, where the road towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice branches off to the left (straight Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we get to Grgar, where at the crossroad by NOB monument we continue straight to the nearby sports field by the primary school, by which we park on a large parking lot.
C) From Goriška Brda we drive to Solkan, where at the first crossroad after new Solkan bridge we continue straight in the direction of Sveta Gora. An ascending road further leads past the quarry Solkan, after that a little higher turns sharply to the right and it brings us to the inn Skalnica, behind which we first get to a crossroad, where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further also to a crossroad, where the road towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice branches off to the left (straight Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we get to Grgar, where at the crossroad by NOB monument we continue straight to the nearby sports field by the primary school, by which we park on a large parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return to NOB monument, and from there we continue on the left road (looking from the direction of access to the starting point, if we came from the direction Nova Gorica), which from the right soon joins "shortcut" (from the parking lot we don't have to go to monument, because to here leads shorter road which starts a little before the parking lot and continues towards the west). A short time we walk on a sidewalk, and then at the spot, where the main road turns right we continue straight on a narrower asphalt road. Good 50 meters we walk on the mentioned road, and then signs for Sveta Gora point us to the left on other road, where we at first bypass "last" house, after that the road continues through a meadow. On the asphalt we walk to signs of gas line number 443, from where we continue on the left road in the direction of Sveta Gora. Only few steps ahead from the macadam road marked path on Sveta Gora over Križce branches off to the left, and we continue straight in the direction of Sveta Gora "Po sredi" (road which we leave continues to the near house - possible is also to continue on the road to lonely house).
The path ahead leads us over smaller meadow, and then it brings us to wooden footbridge through stream Slatnik, where again splits.
We continue over the footbridge (if passage over the footbridge seems to too dangerous we can continue by the stream and a little further we can cross it on rocks) on the path which on the other side passes into the forest and turns slightly to the right. After few 10 strides from the right also joins bypass path, and we continue on a gradually steeper path, which is higher ascending in numerous zig-zags. For some time we are moderately to steeply ascending, and then we get to a marked crossing, where we continue left (right Sveta gora - direct path) on a little narrower footpath in the direction of Sveta Gora through Frančiškov hrib. The path ahead is slightly ascending towards the left and it brings us to the spot, where we join the path from Skalnica (path through trenches).
Here we go slightly right and we continue the ascent on the path which is diagonally ascending through the forest. Further, the path leads us past few more smaller caverns, after that for some time a little steeper ascends and brings us on Frančiškov hrib, from which a nice view opens up.
From Frančiškov hrib we continue on a wide ridge path, on which in good 5 minutes of additional walking, we get to the cemetery and few 10 meters further also to the peak of Sveta Gora.

On the way: Frančiškov hrib (632m)

Trip can be extended to: Vodice