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'''Nevada''' is a state of the [[United States of America]].
== Roads ==
*Shoulders
:Shoulders are usually built at the edge of towns, making it easy for people to pull over. In urban areas, the shoulders can be thinner than desired, but should still be enough for people to pull over for you.
*Pedestrian Rights
:Pedestrian are allowed on most major four lane highways. Interstate 80 also permits pedestrians when outside larger towns.
*Interchanges
:[[split-traffic interchange|Split-traffic interchanges]] are used rarely in the [[Reno]] and [[Las Vegas]] areas, but are not used anywhere else, making waiting times often better than urban areas in neighboring [[California.]]
==Law==
== Experiences ==
Summer 2018, hitched just west of reno by the Boomtown trap, got picked up within 2 hours by a cool dude in an RV. Was heading through to montana, which was out of my planned route east, but I rode all the way to Darby MT.
Personal experience: I had had a tough time getting a ride out of the Las Vegas area, strangely, someone driving a delivery truck going to Saint George, Utah stopped me when I was next to a "Do not pick up hitchhikers...prison area" sign and asked me where I was headed. I got a ride. Use your head out there, trust your instincts, pray (it CAN'T hurt) and give it a go!
I went though there a few years back and generally had no problems, Even got some food from a cop in Winnemucca. Got arrested while walking though through Las Vegas. All around i met some really nice people ranging from a college student going to his moms house for the weekend to an old hippie going to L.A. ''I waited 2 hours in Sparks, almost one day in Fernley, so in Winnemucca I just crashed at drivers' lounge in late afternoon (sooo many truckers are going west, few east... but I got a free shower from one of the former) and rather waited till morning, in 2 hours I got a ride to Denver. So I suggest to plan plenty of time for crossing Nevada, you may get lucky but maybe not. In Winnemucca a cop stopped by and told me it's illegal to hitchhike in Nevada, '''however''' his interpretation was that I am not allowed to stick out my thumb or verbally ask for a ride, BUT it's fine to stand by the road (I was on asphalt shoulder just before interstate entrance) and even lean the destination sign on my backpack! No ticket, he just wrote down data from my passport. I still showed my thumb when there were no suspicious cars around, but eventually I got a ride when I didn't.'' [[User:Yugoles|Yugoles]] ([[User talk:Yugoles|talk]]) 12:10, 11 July 2016 (CEST) I've stopped in Las Vegas on two separate occassions and both times I got stuck for a full day. I would recommend skipping Las Vegas entirely if at all possible. I generally get the feeling people in Las Vegas are not interested in picking hitchhikers up. On the other hand, in northern Nevada; it is a much less populated area but I had more luck getting rides out of really remote areas such as Elko and Winnemucca.
==Cities==