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(5) "Highways" mean roads, streets, alleys and bridges laid out or established for the public or dedicated or abandoned to the public. Highways shall include necessary culverts, sluices, drains, ditches, waterways, embankments, retaining walls, bridges, tunnels, grade separation structures, roadside improvements, adjacent lands or interests lawfully acquired, pedestrian facilities, and any other structures, works or fixtures incidental to the preservation or improvement of the highways. Roads laid out and recorded as highways, by order of a board of commissioners, and all roads used as such for a period of five (5) years, provided they shall have been worked and kept up at the expense of the public, or located and recorded by order of a board of commissioners, are highways.
Basically, hitchhiking is illegal based on the definition of highway. You CANNOT solicit rides form from the shoulder or berm. It would be very hard to defend your position against an officer who claims you are breaking the law by soliciting a ride within the boundary lines of any road property, therefore avoid cops in this state at all costs! The cops in the southern two thirds of the state can be tricky to avoid. The cops in the northern third of the state (highway 12 and all points north) seem not to mind hitchhikers as much. [[User:Zenit|Zenit]] was passed by a state trooper near Moscow, ID, without being hassled at all, while the Orofino city police (Highway 12) politely prohibited him from hitchhiking.
A loophole to this law might be the word ''stand''. If you walk and hitchhike at the same time, you might be fine - but any cop is gonna hate your smart ass and the reaction of a judge is unpredictable as well.
"I've only ever hitched through on I-90 going west, at the northern tip of Idaho, but had a terrible experience. A complete meth-head picked me up who was smoking meth while we were driving (oh, I was driving instead of him because he had his license taken away), and later accused me of stealing things from him. Luckily I got away from him safely, but I would greatly advise caution when hitching in Coeur d'Alene, and don't be afraid to reject a ride if they seem sketchy." -Ned
"I've hitchhiked along I-84 a couple times now and have never had any trouble from cops when they saw me. My rides all came fairly quickly and people were quite friendly. My only encounter with the police was in Bruneau. And that was only because someone had seen me walking out to the canyon and called the police who then sent someone out to check to make sure I was okay. I outright said I was a hitchhiker and the officer simply wished me luck in getting my next ride." TheLoneBaker
"I grew up in Idaho, and I have hitched every major road in and through it since i was 15. the people here are conservative, the cops just people not looking for trouble. the only trouble i have had with the police was when people called in concerned.... one time in Hailey ID, i was actually picked up by a cop a couple miles south of my destination. it was dark i was walking and he decided to drive me the rest of the way." [[user:Roadflower|Roadflower]] 19:07, 15 March 2017 (CET)
== Cities ==
* [[Boise]]
* [[Twin Falls]]
* [[Jerome]]
* [[Pocatello]]
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