Easy hikes and walks around Grad Jastrebarsko

Might be one of the most beautiful and sweetest mountain lodges I've visited so far. Located on a field just below a steep summit with ruins. Lovely!

You can have a drink and their strudels are great!

There are two roads that lead to the old town, one more difficult and one easier, the more difficult one climbs over a cable, so I recommend the easier way for children.

Always a good atmosphere in the home under the eyes

The old town of Okić An ancient fortress, a rare example of preserved Romanesque architecture in continental Croatia. Okić-grad, an ancient fortress considered one of our oldest fortified cities and a rare example of preserved Romanesque architecture in continental Croatia, is located on a secluded, rocky peak of the Plešivica ridge, only 5 kilometers from Samobor. For centuries he watched over this area and repulsed attacks, he did not give up under the onslaught of Mongol tribes, he was not destroyed by the Turkish siege on three occasions. However, the ravages of time have taken their toll, so today the Old Town of Okić only testifies to the times when it played an important defensive role with the remains of its walls. The first record in which Okić-grad is mentioned dates from 1193 in the document of Bishop Kalan from Pécs, but it is believed that the fortress may have existed earlier, during the time of the Croatian national rulers. Okić played an important role in helping King Bela IV. on the run from the Mongols, so he is mentioned in the charter granted by the king to the market town of Samobor, and it is significant that Ivan Okić then allowed the construction of Okić's double city of Lipovac, as a fortress that will further help defend this area. For centuries, the town was ruled by the princes Okićki, Babonići, Bevenudi, Frankopani, Matijaš Korvin, Ivan Horvat and finally the Erdödy family, in whose time, as early as 1616, the Okić fortress became a ruin. Today, the Old Town of Okić is not trying to be occupied by armies, but by mountaineers and excursionists, attracted by walls located at 499 meters above sea level from which the view of Posavina, Pokuplje, Zagreb, Medvednica and Plešivica can be seen. The first of them was the Karlovac writer Dragojla Jarnević, who wrote the first pages of Croatian mountaineering in 1843 with her ascent to Okić, overcoming the harder, southern ascent - and barefoot. Fortunately, thanks to hard-working mountaineers, today the ascent to the Old Town of Okić is much easier, it takes only a 10-minute walk from the Maks Plotnikov Mountain Lodge to the remains of the fort. https://www.samobor.hr/visit/stari-grad-okic-p444

At the foot of the ruins of Okić town and the top of Okić is the Mountain Lodge Dr. Max Plotnikov at 411 m above sea level. It is open on weekends and holidays, you will be greeted by friendly hosts, and offers homemade food and drinks and accommodation by arrangement. It is easily accessible, and an asphalt road across the Klak leads to it. From the lodge, you can continue the ascent to Okić, visit the educational trail Okićnica, continue towards Pleševica, or try the Okić climbing areas, Žohar's Klinčan path and Dragojla's trail. The Samobor Mountaineering Bypass and the Jaska Mountaineering Route pass by it. Originally, the house was bought as a replacement for Ratko's shelter, but due to transport problems, it was left for this location at the foot of Okić, where it was completed in 1978. The lodge is managed by the Mountaineering Association Maks Plotnikov from Samobor. The house and company are named after the late pioneer of the photographic industry in Croatia, mountaineer, alpinist and mountaineering photographer Maksimilijan Plotnik (the mountaineering association started as a mountaineering section of the company Fotokemike). (according to the book by Dr. Željko Poljak: Croatian Mountains, and the Portal of Croatian Technical Heritage).