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The Upper Peninsula has quite a decent reputation.
== Law ==
32.11* Pedestrians soliciting rides or business: No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment or business from the occupant of any vehicle.
Michigan Vehicle Code Definitions: 257.55 “Roadway” defined.
Sec. 55.
“Roadway” means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
Due to the exclusion of the term shoulder from the definition of roadway, it is advisable that one stays off the paved portion of the road completely and hitches from the grass or dirt.== Personal experiences Experiences ==
"Tried our luck hitching in Auburn Hills, a city thirty minutes north of Detroit, and were told by a police officer that "all forms of hitchhiking are illegal in the entire state of Michigan". Upon later investigation, we found that the exact law varies from township to township to the extent that you may be picked up quite legally in one town, to be dropped off twenty minutes later in an area where hitching is expressly forbidden by local ordinances. This of course makes Michigan a great state to hitchhike ''through'', but trying to bounce from place to place is not advised; a shame considering Michigan's natural beauty and much more receptive northern neighbors."
