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Hitchwiki is a collaborative website for gathering information about hitchhiking and other ways of extremely cheap transport. Feel free to share your knowledge with us!General info • Map for Hitchhiking • Top Tips • First time • Safety • Where to hitchhike? • Picking up hitchhikers • Races
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2025
- May 9th -May 11 Tramprally a hitchhiking race starting in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- June 20th - June 22nd Kupala Night, a Slavic celebration of the longest day in a year. Organized by Polish Hitchhikers Association. Location - Poland fb event
- July 1st - August 31st Autostop House organized by Polish Hitchhikers Association. Location - TBA.
- August, first two weeks Hitchgathering/2025
- August 22nd - September 5th Tramprennen from Germany and Austria (Zittau/Vienna) to Blagaj BIH
- September 6th Duimenrace A one day hitchhiking race around the IJsselmeer in the Netherlands.
- 12th September - 14th September Hitchhikers Gathering in Poland
- December 29th - January 1st NYE party in Poland
News add/edit news
- 11 May 2025
A common format to tag official hitchhiking stops on https://www.openstreetmap.org was established. Alongside, all historic spots that used a different way to tag hitchhiking places were altered to adhere to the newly established standard. Now you can assume that this overpass query will give you all official hitchhiking spots that are mapped. Feel free to build upon this.
- 27 April 2025
The Atlantic article about hitchhiking and Hitchwiki.
- 05 February 2025
Article in Belgian media.
- 22 January 2025
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HITCHMAP ACCOUNTS ARE BACK.
Be quick to claim your account name if you have used the map already when it was on Hitchwiki or if you have submitted reviews using a nickname in the past.
This will also enable you to see reviews of yourself or any other user like so https://hitchmap.com/?user=bob#filters
As Hitchmap remains part of the Hitchwiki ecosystem you can also link your Hitchwiki account :)
- 7 November 2024
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Quite a nice milestone for https://hitchmap.com/ you can now add the exact time of your ride to new spot entries and we got more in the pipeline - if you wanna speed things up you can have a look at https://github.com/bopjesvla/hitch This will benefit every hitchhiker using the map getting more precise information as well as hitchhiking research more broadly.
- 15 July 2024
Probably the first time a Member of the European Parliament hitchhiked from Brussels to Strassbourg
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