Hitchhiking from Tartu
Hitchhiking to Tartu
Recent reviews mentioning Tartu
58.10112, 27.44755
Sunday evening got a straight ride to Tartu. A nice shoulder for cars to stop.
―anettlee17, November 2025
57.89185, 26.84894
Towards Tartu, pretty good bus stop, try to aim for cars coming from Osula, quite some of them go long distance, wait times of 5-20 minutes expected
―estohiker, November 2025
58.07795, 27.03971
Towards Tartu, long straight road with good visibility, possible to stop small cars during the day time, wait times of 30-80 minutes
―estohiker, November 2025
58.06043, 27.04879
Towards Tartu, don't know why, since the spot looks ideal (low speeds, speeding up lane, as well as good visibility) but for some reason can't ever get cars here, my Estonian antirecord of wait times has been here, even has great street lights for the darker times, but seems like mission impossible, genuinely wait times are 100-250 minutes in here, would probably recommend going to Tartu through Ahja or Mooste road, good luck
―estohiker, November 2025
58.23955, 26.4091
Towards Puhja/Tartu, more likely to stop a car going to Tartu, an alternative and a good spot for my liking when it's already very dark outside, as Elva has very good street lighting, as well as cars go in slow speeds, before turning to the highway, wait times of 10-30 minutes expected, most cars here go to Tartu so ideal for that
―estohiker, October 2025
58.14292, 26.24846
Towards Elva/Tartu. Like said before, the spot itself is very small, just barely enough to have a car stop there, but due to just the right amount of traffic and very slow speeds, you will catch a car within 20 minutes, as well as it has good street lights for the dark
―estohiker, October 2025
57.88448, 26.83176
We started walking slowly towards the bigger road, but hitched a ride despite not much traffic straight to the place were we left our bikes near Tartu.
―anettlee17, October 2025
58.57317, 23.39229
Asked around in the line of cars waiting for the ferry. Most of them were driving towards Tallinn/Harjumaa, but then found a car driving to Tartu through Pärnu.
―anettlee17, October 2025
59.41133, 24.80208
Last Sunday I waited in the dark for 30minutes, this time 15min and both times I luckily got a ride straight to Tartu.
―anettlee17, October 2025
58.37621, 26.9832
Not much traffic, but still got picked up very quickly and straight to Tartu.
―anettlee17, October 2025
58.01232, 26.16328
Towards Rõngu/Tartu, in theory a very good spot, good enough visiblity, cars coming from Võru road have nice ramp for them, bus stop with roof etc etc, however this part of the road is pretty desolated with very little traffic, furthermore, noone uses this turn to go towards Rõngu, as the traffic from sideroads literally always goes from Tõrva road to Võru road, speeds are high on the main road and wait times of 100+ minutes to be expected, i ended up walking towards Puka on the highway and about a kilometer in managed to stop a car on the highway, so might be worth a shot, good luck
―estohiker, September 2025
58.14292, 26.24846
Not much space to stop, but cars go slow and will pick you up anyway towards Tartu
―Anonymous, August 2025
58.05638, 26.19491
Got dropped off here, good to continue further on towards Tartu
―Anonymous, August 2025
58.40096, 26.74041
I think there is not need to walk further to leave Tartu
It's a bus stop
―cabalkin, August 2025
59.33229, 27.40277
bus stop direction Tartu. found a direct ride there.
―dr4c3k, July 2025
59.38478, 28.15721
direction Tallinn and Tartu. If the driver is going in a different direction than you, ask to be dropped of in Johvi, cause thats where the two main roads collide. Not a lot of space to stop but a lot of traffic.
―dr4c3k, July 2025
57.79035, 26.0512
Not much traffic, but after walking here from the border I got a ride in minutes straight to Tartu.
―anettlee17, July 2025
57.8735, 26.27431
Okay bus stop towards Tsirguliina or Tartu-Valga highway, cars come from around the corner tho and traffic density is low, wait times of 10-40 minutes expected
―estohiker, June 2025
58.36288, 25.63619
Best spot for going out of Viljandi towards Tartu, cars come slow from turn, just be between the roundabout and Valuste road turn since if you go too up, you'll start bothering cars turning. Wait time of 5-20 minutes expected.
―estohiker, June 2025
58.73324, 26.37807
Since Siimusti turn doesn't really work nor inside Jõgeva I have started to use this inbetween area, which usually works within 30 minutes if headed to Tartu direction
―estohiker, June 2025