Hitchhiking news and news archive
Here you are welcome to mention current hitchhiking events, such as big hospitality exchange camps, hitchhike races or meet-ups.
Feel free to add news or events.
Upcoming events
2025
- June 23rd - 30th Voting for this year's Hitchgathering location
- July 1st - August 31st Autostop House organized by Polish Hitchhikers Association. Location - Slovenia.
- August 1st - 14th 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
- 24 June 2025
Voting for the 2025 European Hitchgathering started
- 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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