Legastja - Sveta Katarina (Topol)
Starting point: Legastja (438 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.1072°N 14.3498°E
Time of walking: 1 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 300 m
Altitude difference (by path): 330 m
Map: Škofjeloško in Cerkljansko hribovje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From Ljubljana, Kranj or Vodice we drive to Medvode, from there we continue driving towards Sora. At the crossroad at the beginning of Sora, immediately behind the small bridge we turn left in the direction of Katarina and village Trnovec. Further, we drive through the valley Ločnica towards Katarina (Topol), and we are driving there to the inn Legastja, near of which we park on an appropriate place by the road (settled parking lot by the inn is intended for guests).
B) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, from there we continue driving towards Sora. At the end of the Sora we turn right in the direction of Katarina and village Trnovec. Further, we drive through the valley Ločnica towards Katarina (Topol), and we are driving there to the inn Legastja, near of which we park on an appropriate place by the road (settled parking lot by the inn is intended for guests).
Path description:
From the starting point at the inn Legastja at first we carefully cross the road, and then we go on a footpath in the direction of St Jakob. The path is at first ascending on a grassy cart track which leads us among meadows and pastures, and then it flattens and it brings us to a smaller hamlet, where we step on an asphalt road. We continue among some houses, after which the asphalt road changes into a cart track, on which we ascend to the nearby hayracks. At hayracks blazes point us slightly left, on the path which is then ascending on a meadow. Easy to follow, but in the time of high grass a little overgrown path, after few minutes brings us to other asphalt road which we reach at the smaller crossroad, by which there is a cross. We continue on the left side of the cross, on an ascending road, on which we quickly get to a hamlet with few houses and a marked crossing there.
From the crossing, we continue straight and for few minutes we continue on the road (left 10 minutes shorter path). When in the forest road makes a right turn, we leave it and we continue straight on a little steeper marked path, which ascends through the forest and a little higher leads past the water storage. From here few minutes of ascent through the forest follows, and then we get to the edge of a meadow, where the path turns right. Cart track on which we continue we leave in a gentle left turn, because blazes point us to the right on a footpath which crosses slopes towards the right. After a shorter traversing, we step on a macadam road and we follow it to the right. Mentioned macadam road quickly brings us to a crossroad, from which we continue on the upper left road in the direction of St Jakob and Brezovica. From the asphalt road soon a view opens up towards St Jakob, which we see already left behind us, and we walk on the road to the settlement Brezovica.
By the upper part of the settlement there is a marked crossing, where we go right in the direction of Katarina (left Sveti Jakob) and we continue on a narrower macadam road. Further, the road leads us through a lane of a forest and then it becomes asphalted and past the homestead Na Vihri descends to a crossroad at the chapel. From the crossroad, we continue left in the direction of Jeterbenk, where after few minutes of additional walking, we get to the church of St. Katarina.
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