Triglavska Bistrica Trail

Triglavska Bistrica Trail

Walking along the Triglav Bistrica Trail and visiting the Slovenian Alpine Museum in Mojstrana offers an experiential discovery of the valley - the natural phenomena of the Triglav National Park and the history of mountaineering in the north face of Triglav.

The Triglav Bistrica Trail leads from Mojstrana along the Triglavska Bistrica Trail, past the Peričnik waterfall and the Galleries to the headwaters of the Vrat valley.

You can reach starting point by using public transport. Your station to reach starting point is AP Mercator Mojstrana, from there walk to the The Slovenian Alpine Museum (Slovenski planinski muzej).

TIP: You can also use other stations and shorten the trail as desired.

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Data from visitor counters in the park

Park counters (23)

Total visits: 39736
Daily average visits: 1325
Bohinj – Ukanc, Bohinjsko jezero
Bohinj – Ukanc, Bohinjsko jezero
Yesterday 266
Total 5434
Daily 181
Dolina Tamar
Dolina Tamar
Yesterday 147
Total 7693
Daily 256
Slap Peričnik 1
Slap Peričnik 1
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Lepena - Krnsko jezero
Lepena - Krnsko jezero
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Bohinj - Komna
Bohinj - Komna
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Planina Blato
Planina Blato
Yesterday 0
Total 314
Daily 10
Mangrtsko sedlo - na poti
Mangrtsko sedlo - na poti
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Dolina Vrata - Pot Triglavske Bistrice
Dolina Vrata - Pot Triglavske Bistrice
Yesterday 93
Total 2459
Daily 82
Planina Kuhinja
Planina Kuhinja
Yesterday 99
Total 2293
Daily 76
Dolina Krnica - Pod Kriško steno
Dolina Krnica - Pod Kriško steno
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Trenta - Soška pot
Trenta - Soška pot
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Dolina Tamar - proti Jalovcu
Dolina Tamar - proti Jalovcu
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Dolina Vrata - Kriški podi - Luknja
Dolina Vrata - Kriški podi - Luknja
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Dolina Krma - Kredarica
Dolina Krma - Kredarica
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Dolina Krnica
Dolina Krnica
Yesterday 72
Total 4271
Daily 142
Planina Lipanca
Planina Lipanca
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Trenta - Mala korita Soče
Trenta - Mala korita Soče
Yesterday 99
Total 4969
Daily 166
Pokljuška soteska
Pokljuška soteska
Yesterday 23
Total 2743
Daily 91
Trenta - Izvir Soče
Trenta - Izvir Soče
Yesterday 136
Total 7560
Daily 252
Soška pot- Korita Mlinarice
Soška pot- Korita Mlinarice
Yesterday 17
Total 1472
Daily 49
Rudno Polje - pl. Jezerce
Rudno Polje - pl. Jezerce
Yesterday 0
Total 528
Daily 18
Martuljški slapovi
Martuljški slapovi
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Učna pot Mangrt koča
Yesterday 0
Total 0
Daily 0
Summer location / automatic station
Winter location / automatic station
Year-round location / automatic station

The route starts at the Slovenian Alpine Museum, where there is also an info point of the Triglav National Park. Continue along the river, Triglavska Bistrica Trail, where info points are waiting for you along the way. The trail passes the Peričnik waterfall and the Galleries all the way to the headwaters of the Vrat valley. There, the last info point on the way offers an insight into the history of mountaineering in the North Triglav Wall.

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Additional information

Route difficulty:

  • Technically easy, but a lengthy route. It mostly follows paths and trails along the Triglavska Bistrica and only merges with the road in short sections.

Attractions along the way:

  • Lake Kreda, Peričnik waterfall, conglomerate rocks - galleries, hilly meadows, picturesque Vrat valley with a view of the north face of Triglav.

The appropriate season:

  • dry season

Payment of visit:

  • free

Guest houses and mountain huts:

  • Koča pri Peričniku, Aljažev dom (in summer season)

Priporočila:

  • suitable hiking footwear
  • In bad weather or winter conditions, the trail can be dangerous and difficult to walk.

Trail manager:

  • Triglav National Park Public Institute

Walk along the Triglavska Bistrica

Slovenian Alpine Museum

Slovenian Alpine Museum

A museum where the past meets the present. An extensive collection of items with diverse historical stories, rich photographic and archive material, and a comprehensive professional booklet give the visitor the chance to grasp the popularity and importance of mountaineering in the Slovenian territory. Explore the museum.

Lake Kreda

When a cement factory started operating in 1893 in the area of “Fabrka”, chalk (Slovene: kreda) for cement production was mined in the area nearby. When the mining ceased, the lake basin with water inflow from the brook became a small lake.

 

Triglavska Bistrica stream and birds

The Triglavska Bistrica stream is an important habitat for various animals, including birds. The whitethroated dipper, the grey and white wagtail, the European robin and the Eurasian wren are regular visitors on the stream bank. Higher in the rocks above the stream, we can find crag martins and wallcreepers.

Cinclus cinclus

Plant life

The wonderful world of plants

Living conditions in the high mountains are very difficult. Plants have adapted in many ways to long and cold winters, short summers, low temperatures, strong ultraviolet radiation, wind, water scarcity and shallow, nutrient-depleted soils. Some with intense flower colour and dwarf, cushion-like growth, others with fleshy or hairy leaves, others with embryonic buds.

Edelweiss

Leontopodium alpinum

In the 19th century, it became a symbol of Alpine flora and was severely threatened by ripping. It was the first protected plant in Slovenia. In Goriška, it was protected as early as 1896.

Biodiversity of the park

The diversity of the animal world

The Triglav National Park is rich in diversity, with a multitude of animal species from microscopically small to relatively large mammals found in the waters and on land. Within the Triglav National Park there are around 7000 different species. This diversity is due to climatic conditions, topography, geology and habitat diversity.

Chamois

Rupicapra rupicapra

It is the most characteristic animal of the Alpine world. They are social animals, with only older goats being solitary. The natural enemies of adult chamois are the wolf and the lynx, and the golden eagle also attacks young chamois.

Alpine beech forest

The Alpine beech forest is a plant community typical of the lower slopes of Alpine valleys. The main tree species in the Alpine beech forest are beech, spruce, larch, fir and red pine. In the ground layer of the forest, the most common plants are common liverwort, spring heath, common cyclamen and black holly. In the Vrata valley, the common cowslip and the lily of the valley are also found.

Peričnik waterfall

During the last ice age, the glacier cut into the conglomerate, deepening the valley and creating a picturesque, almost 100-metre-high conglomerate sill, over which the Peričnik waterfall falls in two stages today.

Peričnik waterfall

 

The galleries

The Pleistocene conglomerate sill, composed of differently resistant layers, was unevenly eroded by the Triglavska Bistrica stream. In some places it has been hollowed out to form picturesque galleries or 'sheds', with overhangs above them as part of the undercutting.

 

˝Rovti˝

In the Vrata valley, there are typical "rovtes" or grazing areas, which have their own names: the Šimencev rovt, the Cenkov rovt, the Poldov rovt, the Turkov rovt ... During the summer season, farmers graze their cattle there, thus making an important contribution to preserving the cultural landscape and biodiversity. 

 

Jakob Aljaž and the Aljaž House in Vrata valley

Priest, composer, poet and builder of the huts in Vrata and Kredarica, the Aljaž Tower, the weather station and the chapel at Kredarica, and designer of many trails in the Julian Alps, including the Tominšek Route, which is known as the first Slovenian Route to Triglav.

 

Mountaineering

The most important milestones in the conquest of the North Triglav Wall were set by local climbers. Among the most important ascents are the climbed routes in Sfinga. Today, there are hundreds of climbing routes and variants across the Wall.

 

North Triglav Wall

The mighty North Triglav Wall reigns over the Vrata valley. It is more than three kilometres wide and on average 1000 metres high. It is one of the three largest walls in the Eastern Alps. The wall is a symbol of Slovenian mountaineering.

 

Geology

The North Triglav Wall is lined with numerous well-defined layers of varying thickness of Upper Triassic Dachstein limestone.The uplift of the Julian Alps has subjected the normal sequence to folding and uplift, so that today the older rocks lie on top of the younger ones. The top of Triglav (above Stena) is thus not made of layered limestone, but of older, massive Upper Triassic limestone.

 

Protective forest

In protective forests, all actions are subordinated to maintaining and enhancing the protective function. Trees intercept part of the snowfall with their canopies and prevent the snow cover from moving with their trunks. They also stop falling stones.