Zirc - a Bakony fővárosa

Rout description

Tour length: 5.4 km

Level rise: 273 m

Trail marking:

START/FINISH point: Community centre (Zirc, Alkotmány u. 14.)

PINTÉR 5 – Route description

From the Start Community Centre, on the Alkotmány street we are heading to east (right) and turn left into the first connecting street, the Árpád street. We follow the road until we leave the last house of Árpád street under the trees. Here we turn right at the end of the gardens of Erdőalja street and go in the woods to the mountain bike training ground. We turn left and go up on the wooden stairs to the Sípálya clearance, on the right side of which there is a sheltered resting place.

We climb to the ridge Pintér Hill, then descend towards the Rejuvenating spring. Meanwhile we cross the blue (K) path of the National Blue Trail (OKT) arriving from Deák Ferenc street, which runs to Pintér ditch almost perpendicular to our path. Soon, we meet this sign once again for a short period.

At the clearance’s end, we turn half right on the forest road used by vehicles. Soon we can see that a nice sheltered resting place was built at the resting spot of the Rejuvenating spring. Passing by the spring (don’t drink its water) we follow a small path and enter the dense pine forest. We soon reach a barely used forest road; turning right on this soon we will see on the right road’s right side the small wooden house built above the Imre well.

From the well we follow the path along the forest edge about 110 metres, when we reach the unpaved road arriving from the Tündérmajor fork. We turn right and after about 700 metres of descending we reach the bottom of the Pintér ditch where we meet the OKT blue sign crossed before the Rejuvenating spring. We turn back to the (K) sign. Going downhill about 120 metres, we can see the steep Felső clearance leading up to the hillside. We turn left to this clearance and follow it until we cross the ridge of the Pintér Hill.

After the uphill, on the hill’s top we can see a deer yard and a salting on the right and a high-stand a little further to the left. We continue our journey in the clearance mainly downhill. In the meantime, we can read the illustrative and instructive boards of the Pintér Hill educational path. In the clearance, we don’t walk to the forest edge, but turning right on the path of the sledge run we leave the clearance. We will soon reach the town's edge in the Vitális street, across the mouth of the Szeptember 6th street. In the Vitális street, we turn left. We reach the Alkotmány street, from where turning right we can see the Goal, the Community Centre.