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.
Upcoming events
2025
- April 18th -April 21st Easter Hitchhiking Race by Club of Roam – Autostop! e.V. (https://tramprennen.org or through Instagram @tramprennen). From Escherode (Staufenberg-near Kassel) to Uslar
- May 9th -May 11 Tramprally a hitchhiking race starting in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- 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.
News
- 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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