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Hitchwiki is a collaborative project to build a free guide for hitchhikers.
So far we have 4,443 articles in English, written and edited by 30,437 hitchhikers around the globe. Feel free to share your knowledge with us.

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The Basics

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Great tips for professional hitchhiking

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Read this if you never hitchhiked before

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How to evaluate and reduce risk while on the road

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  • 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.

https://hitchmap.com/register

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 accountย :)


  • 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

(Read old news here...)


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