Nature Park Blidinje: Mountain's cycling route

Tour of the Blidinje Nature Park on the "Mountain Bike Path"

Cycling tour for purebred MTB cyclists! This cycling route takes you past two stećak necropolises, past 4 Blidin churches, past the grave of Diva Grabovčeva, and then surrounds the entire Vran Planina. It goes along the edges of the beautiful and blue Blidinje lake and through various landscapes that only the Blidinje Nature Park has.

The tour starts from the Administrative Building of the Blidinje Nature Park. Immediately upon departure, you go down to Masna Luka and you can see the church of St. Elijah. After visiting the church and the Franciscan House of Prayer, this cycling tour goes through the beautiful landscapes of Badanje and Ivan Dolca, from where there is an excellent view of the high slopes of Čvrsnica that tower over Masna Luka and the Ski Trail. Passing through Ivan Dolac and through the area of a large number of beautiful cottages, you get to the asphalt road (regional road R419). After a few hundred meters, the asphalt road turns right onto the Ski Trail, where you can take a short break (and you can also have a drink in the restaurant). After viewing the ski slopes, this tour takes you back to the asphalt road that continues to the Necropolis of Stećak Risovac. There is also an old church in Risovac near the stećak, and a little before, along the road, you can see a new large church. From these stećaks to those named Dugo Polje, you pass through the Risovac field, dotted with cultivated meadows and small green hills, which give the whole tour a special atmosphere where you feel that you are on a lower plateau, and not in the area of high mountains. After visiting the Stećak Necropolis of Dugo Polje, which is also under UNESCO protection and has as many as 150 stećaks, the tour continues through Kedžara to the grave of Diva Grabovčeva. After short dashes from history, the events of which are forever engraved in the Blidinje Nature Park, the circuit continues around the entire Vran Mountain.

Through the towns of Trebiševo and Prokos, and further through Omrčenica, you reach the very edge of the nature park. All the time, you pass through large expanses of forest that provide a true oasis of peace in the hinterland of Vran Planina, and you follow the macadam path the entire way. Going down Omrčenica, you come to Duvanjski kraj and the very beginning of a place called Lipa. There, the macadam road joins the asphalt road that leads from Tomislavgrad to Blidinje. It leads uphill to the exit from the valley that separates Vran Planina from Lib Planina. On the plateau from which you can see Čvrsnica, Vran mountain and the park area between them, you need to turn right and go through the fields through a place called Svinjača. It is a place full of slightly higher hills completely overgrown with tall grass, from the tops of which there are excellent views of the entire park. At the end of that place, you get on the asphalt road again, now the one that connects Blidinje with Posušje. The tour along it continues downstream towards the lake. Along the way, you pass the Church of Our Lady of Snow, and then along the edges of Blidinjsko Jezera. After viewing the lake and the high cliffs of Čvrsnica above it, this tour continues along the asphalt road to return to the starting point in Masna Luka.

Administrative building of the Blidinje Nature Park -> Masna Luka -> Badnje -> Ivan Dolac -> Ski Trail -> Risovac Necropolis -> Dugo Polje Necropolis -> Grave of Diva Grabovčeva -> Trebiševo -> Prokos -> Lipa -> Svinjača -> Barzonja ( Church of Our Lady of Snow) -> Pl. home of Blidinje (next to the lake) -> Administrative building of the Blidinje Nature Park

Route length: approx. 65 km

RECOMMENDATION

Although the trail mostly takes us through populated areas and you drive on an asphalt section, we also come across a macadam section of the trail, while we always think that on longer rides it is necessary to bring a mini tool and a tool for patching inner tires, so the rule also applies to this section. We definitely recommend that you inform your family or friends about your cycling plans before going for a ride.
Helmet mandatory!