Summer and Winter Activites
About Kranjska Gora
Kranjska Gora with its surroundings offers many opportunities for a variety of activities in all seasons. For those who love nature and tranquility the natural conditions allow to take advantage of an active rest and relax in the peaceful surroundings and breathe in the pure mountain air.
Summer activies
In summer time it is a heavenly place for the lovers of nature, for a bike ride in cycle tracks and for more demanding also in the surrounding hills. The most beautiful views can however be admired by the hikers and climbers. The lovers of water sports will go rafting and canyoning … and mountain rivers and streams also offer the possibility of fishing. Special adventures are organized for children (to the wonderland of the young shepherd Kekec, to the Land of dwarfs …) and for a little older children it is certainly tempting the summer sledding run. Besides all the activities in Kranjska Gora you can play also golf.
Kranjska gora with its surroundings due to its location offers a wide range of excursions. Here you will find a lot of pathways from the easiest and recreational ones, suitable for the whole family, to the more demanding tours that require experience, proper equipment and a mountain guide.
For all the bikers who enjoy in good pathways will be really a pleasure to ride in the shelter of trees and far from other traffic choosing the bike path that leads from Rateče near Kranjska Gora to Gozd Martuljek.
Winter Activities
Skiing
Kranjska Gora’s ski resort offers winter pleasures for both beginners and expert skiers. The best favorable tracks for beginners are located just at the edge of the village. There are also a children’s park with a conveyor belt, a short sledding slope, the meeting point of almost all ski schools and some ski rental shops.
Cross country run
During the cross country run you can enjoy a winter idyll of the Upper Sava Valley as along all the tracks you will have a beautiful view of the mighty peaks.
Well maintained cross country tracks are more than 40km long and are taking you through the winter idyll from the center of Kranjska Gora to Podkoren, passing by the source of the Sava river, and further on to Planica and its known big ski jumps and finally deeply in the beautiful Valley of Tamar. From Kranjska Gora you can start also in the opposite direction, towards Gozd Martuljek. The cross-country tracks are prepared also in Mojstrana. There is also a possibility of the night cross-country run in the illuminated track.
Sledding
Besides the day sledding on the ski slope of Kranjska Gora you can choose as well the organized sledding at night in the illuminated track. First you are taken to the top by a terrain vehicle and then follows the descent in the light of torches.
Ice climbing
Beginners can try out the artificially frozen waterfall Mlačca in Mojstrana. In this unique ice-climbing center you can ask for protection, guides and equipment rental. The most popular destination for climbers on the frozen waterfalls is the famous frozen waterfall in Martuljek named Lucifer. It is recommended to visit Lucifer or any other frozen waterfall under Prisank and Tamar together with a guide.
