Educative trail "Jílovské zlaté doly" (Gold mines of Jílové) was established in 1988 as an extension of permanent exhibition located in Jílové u Prahy Regional Museum and is being continuously enhanced. It consists of two pathways marked with white squares with diagonal green strip, which are situated mostly on rural roads and begin near st.Adalbert church on Masaryk square in Jílové. Each of these pathways is cca 4.5km long, one of them is circular, the other ends at Kamenný Přívoz. There is a number of informational panels along them.

The circular pathway – Jílové-Horní Studené-Jílové

Panel N.1: Masaryk square in Jílové
The centre of the town is listed as a protected historical monument. There is a 14th century townhall, reconstructed in baroque style in 18th century, and gothic church of St. Adalbert (13th century). Another interesting building is the "Mince" ("Coin", N.16) house, where royal mining office was situated until 1420 and where the museum resides.
Jílové itself originates in 13th century as a miners‘ settlement and was promoted to royal gold mining town around 1350 by emperor Charles IV. It has never fully recovered from the Hussite wars (1419-1436) and today serves as a recreational centre of the region. There is a population of more than 3300 permanent residents, but there are usually also more than 10 000 temporary weekend house residents during summer holidays.
The name "Jílové" ("Eule" in German) relates to clay and is probably related to gold-washing.

Panel N.2: St. Anna
A niche village chapel of one of patrons of mining. Mine "Petr" ("Peter", destroyed by Hussites in 1420) was located cca 100m southwards. The area of the mine was gradually recultivated during centuries to pass and is covered with meadows today. There is a nice view towards the city, the valley of Sázava river and hills of Central-Bohemian Upland from the site of the mine.

Panel N.3: Sludge bed
The sludge bed was operational between 1953 and 1968, cca 420 000 tons of material were deposited there, their base being composed of plastic dark-grey sediments. It was connected to golden ore processing plant in Studené by a 300m long pipeline. The plateau now serves as a good example of successful recultivation, there were never detected any excessive levels of cyanids, quicksilver or other toxic substances used during gold extraction in waters flowing to the valley on the east.

Panel N.4: Kocour mines
The Kocoury ("Tomcat") lode zone stretches from Sázava river to Jílové. There were dozens of mines in the area for several centuries. The longest adit of Jílové mining district, "Starokocourská štola" ("Old Kocoury Adit"), more than 2 km long, passes there. There are also many conical depressions in the forest. Such a depression is called "pinka" and represents a remain of mining activities.

Panel N.5: Pepř mine
Pepř ("Pepper") was the main mine in the area during the last phase of gold mining between 1958 and 1968. It was connected to Bohuliby shaft in a depth of 150 meters. Ore used to be transported up to the processing plant, which produced 1.2t of pure gold during this period. The processing plant was converted into a scaffold factory after 1968.

Panel N.6: Pepř lookout
Surroundings of Pepř hill are interesting not only as a productive gold-mining area, but also for their natural and scenic value. Hills of Central-Bohemian Upland like Blaník, Chlum and Neštětická hora may be seen from here when looking southwards. The northwestern side of Pepř offers view on Brdy hills. There is a water house and a telecommunications and lookout tower on the top of Pepř hill.

Panel N.7: Mines of Šlojíř lode zone
Šlojíř ("Veil") lode zone is the most famous among lode zones of Jílové and can be traced from Sázava river by Luka pod Medníkem up to Radlík. Traces of former mining are mostly destroyed by following recultivations, only patches of trees and bushes in fields sometimes hint on their location. A field road leads from there back to the town.

The one-way pathway – Jílové-Horní Studené-Dolní Studené-Kamenný Přívoz

This pathway follows the circular one from the Regional Museum, but separates from it 100 meters after panel N.4. Its panels are marked with capital letters.

Panel A: Bejčkova strouha, mine Anna
There is a lode named Anna, which was opened by an adit of same name in 18th century, near the end of Bejčkova strouha ("Bejček’s ditch"). Halls of HAKI scaffold factory may be seen above the ditch.

Panel B: Klobásy lode zone stockworks
Extensive gold mining took place in the narrow valley of Dolní Studené ("Lower Cold") in the last millenium. There are many terrain depressions on hillsides, most of them being remains of old mines of unknown names. The spring near the road is actually mine water from St.Procopius adit.

Panel C: St. Joseph adit
The brooch flowing through Studené valley crosses Kocoury lode zone, the second most mined one. One of many old mines, the St.Joseph adit, is open for public on Saturdays and Sundays from April to October, between 9:00 and 17:00, otherwise on request at the museum. Another adit, named after St.Anthony of Padua, lies on the other side of the valley cca 50 meters from St.Joseph, guided tour is possible, but only on request. Other small adits in the valley are closed and entering them is forbidden.
 
Panel D: Kocoury viaduct, gabro at Studené
The viaduct, stretching over Kocoury valley in height of 41.5m, is an unique technical monument and highest stone bridge in Central Europe. It was built between 1897 and 1900 and never needed major reconstruction. There is a defile with a rock step in the valley before it. The rock step consists of a body of a dark hard stone – gabro. This kind of stone is highly appreciated by stone masons, especially for production of tombstones and memorial monuments. It used to be quarried in Pecerady.   

Panel E: Žampach
The right bank of Sázava river saw a frequent use during periods of intense gold mining. Water has been used to drive ore mills and separators. A 1400m long supply ditch from Kamenný Přívoz ended there. It was expected to be used as a source of energy for water pumps in nearby mines, but the project was not successful in the end.

Panel F: Contact of Jílové zone minerals and Central-Bohemian pluton
Geological maps and cuts explaining local interesting exposure may be seen on this panel. Eruptive rocks of Central-Bohemian pluton may be seen when looking upstream and there are also gold bearing metamorphed minerals of Jílové zone beyond nearby minor brook. Both those formations, "granites“ and the "slates", are in contact there. Many interesting plant specimen like Basket of Gold (Aurinia Saxatilis) may be observed on the rocks.

Panel G: Supply ditch, Sázava river
The supply ditch from Kamenný Přívoz to Žampach was built between 1836 and 1841 and its segment under the factory is filled up. Sázava has descent rate of 3.4% there, average temperature being 10°C and flow rate being 20 m³/s. Entire segment of the river between Týnec and Pikovice, including rapids, is of WWII difficulty. Boats may be rented in Týnec.

Panel H: Kamenný Přívoz
This panel contains information on old raftsman settlement Kamenný Přívoz ("Stone Ferry"), established in 11th century under name „Přívozec“. Most of local inhabitants were timber raftsmen, quarry workes in nearby Požáry quarries and gold miners. Writer Jan Morávek (1888-1958), who wrote about landscape and people of the region, was born in house N.16.