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Most populated cities it may be harder to find rides, especially around the Greater Vancouver Area & inward toward the west coast. In order to hitchhike out of Vancouver first take the Skytrain to Gateway Station in Surrey. From a bus stop across the street, a bus will take you fairly close to a certain highway on-ramp on the Trans Canada. Bus drivers will be able to give more specific information.

Another way There are different ways to hitch east would be hitchhike out of Vancouver to take the Millenium line sky-train to Lougheed Town Centre station, where you take the express bus 555 to Carvolth. It really is an express bus, and thus faster than the ones starting in Surrey. Carvolth is a bus stop right on highway one, between Langley Centre and Fort Langley. At the moment, the on-ramp right next to the bus stop is being renovated, but if you walk a bit back west, you will find another one. (As well as some gas stations with accessible dumpsterseast.)

1) One easy way is to get onto the Trans-Canada Highway, a.k.a. Canada Highway 1, at the highway entrance right across a road at the eastern boundary of the City of Vancouver, very cleverly named Boundary Road, at the intersection with Grandview Highway, which is not a highway but a normal city street. There is a stop light which causes drivers to stop. Many of them are getting onto the Trans-Canada Highway and going very far. You want to stand on the southwest corner of Grandview Highway and Boundary Road with a sign saying where you want to go. The drivers will look you over and one will take you.To get there from in the city of Vancouver, go to Broadway and take a #9 regular bus or #99express bus east on Broadway to Boundary Road and then a #28 bus south on Boundary Road less than 1 km to Grandview Highway. Or take a Skytrain on the Millennium Line to Rupert station and walk about 8~10 blocks. That's probably faster than the bus on Broadway. Or go to 12th Avenue and hitchhike east. 12th Avenue becomes Grandview Highway and is the main route out of central Vancouver to the Trans-Canada Highway. 2) A very different way is to first take the Skytrain to Gateway Station in Surrey. From a bus stop across the street, a bus will take you fairly close to a certain highway on-ramp on the Trans Canada. Bus drivers will be able to give more specific information. 3) Another way to hitch east would be to take the Millenium line Skytrain to Lougheed Town Centre station, where you take the express bus 555 to Carvolth. It really is an express bus, and thus faster than the ones starting in Surrey. Carvolth is a bus stop right on Highway 1, between Langley Centre and Fort Langley. At the moment, the on-ramp right next to the bus stop is being renovated, but if you walk a bit back west, you will find another one. (As well as some gas stations with accessible dumpsters.) 4) Another option that may save you hours of public transit and waiting, but will add to the actual driving time is to head North towards Whistler. That highway eventually ends up near Kamloops, which is a great gateway to the Okanagan. This road is, in my opinion, way more scenic than the highway 1 to Hope and people are a lot more likely to stop on this road.