Hitchhiking from Oulu
Hitchhiking to Oulu
Recent reviews mentioning Oulu
65.73274, 24.58611
We have tried to catch a car to Oulu Sunday noon. There was a few cars and enough place for them to stop.rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 113 km ↘
―Nikooo00, Sun 05 Jan 2025, 12:20
64.9196, 25.53878
People going out of work. Find a guy to go north of Oulu. Lot of locals but worked for merating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 👍, ride: 36 km ↑
―Emilien, Wed 13 Nov 2024, 15:14
62.51639, 25.68838
Not so much traffics but find a ride straight to Oulurating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 348 km ↑
―Emilien, Wed 13 Nov 2024, 10:54
62.25861, 25.7579
On the way north, waited with an Oulu sign. Got a short-ish ride to ABC Kirvaskangas relatively quickly. Not a perfect spot for cars to stop, but good enough. Walkable from the city center.rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 36 km ↑
―Uri, September 2024
62.51701, 25.69008
We were on the way north to Oulu. The first person we asked offered to take us 300km most of the way there to Kempele.rating: 5/5
―Uri, September 2024
65.58423, 25.1968
Bus stop next to the highway, there is also a gas station here. Speed limit increases from 60 to 100 km/h immediately after the bus stop, so choosing one or two bus stops earlier might be nicer for the cars to be slower (speed limit is 60 all throughout Kuivaniemi and there is a camera at one of the bus stops so cars actually go slowly) . But there is plenty of space to pull over, I got super lucky and after about 30 minutes a truck stopped for me and took me to Oulu. (Female, summer, daytime)rating: 4/5, ride: 84 km ↓
―Lolo, August 2023
64.86246, 25.52197
High traffic, but cars drove mainly to the Oulu or cities nearby, not to the south. If so, they were full in the car during summer.rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min
―Markon, July 2023
64.40136, 27.82277
Low traffic, cars drove to nearest villages so not that far away more to the Oulu.rating: 4/5, wait: 45 min, ride: 61 km ↖
―Markon, July 2023
65.30906, 25.37442
Early bird caught an enormous worm, got a ride not to Tornio or Haparanda but to GÄVLE 2 hours north of STOCKHOLM. Traffic lights just before this bus stop and a Shell gas station aswell. There is a bus from Oulu that stops at this bus station, highly recommend. A local suggested skipping Kemi and taking a ride all the way to Tornio, because many travel to Ikea Haparanda with an empty car and Kemi is nit very friendly for hitchhiking.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 826 km ↙
―VekkuliVeli, July 2023
65.84139, 24.14696
! Have a sign !Just after the border. Perfect spot for Rovaniemi / Oulu / North / etc. Slow speeds, plenty of traffic and tons of space for the cars to pull up.
rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min
―VeikkaK, June 2023
65.83948, 24.1257
Didn't try here but if you want to get to Rovaniemi / Oulu / Kemi / Tornio from Haparanda and don't feel like walking across the border and like asking people directly, asking at the biggest snus stores should work as long as they have free space in their cars. Snusgrossen probably the most popular store but also King of Snus or even Ikea & Candy World should work.rating: 4/5
―VeikkaK, June 2023
65.17708, 25.35427
Technically this should be a good spot... But I stood there for 90 minutes without finding a ride and ended up taking a bus (23 line) to Ii, in the hopes of finding a ride from there. If your planning to go to Sweden from Oulu, I'd recommend going to Ii straight away (A-C zones). Don't waste your time.rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min
―kar10house, April 2023
63.67215, 27.05074
Valkeinen L bus stop in direction of Oulu. Average 1 car every 2 minutes. Perfect place to stop but speed limit is 100kmh and traffic must be mostly local...―Anonymous, August 2016
63.59324, 27.17545
Kajaani Th L bus stop in direction Oulu. Quite a busy road. Got a (local) lift.―Anonymous, August 2016
63.74042, 26.98834
Seems like a good spot, but I had to wait a long time (but thankfully got a lift the whole way to Oulu then).―Ferret, August 2016
66.49064, 25.69113
Bus stop on slip road in direction of Kemi, Oulu, etc. Seems a good spot, but I was there on Saturday afternoon and not many cars were passing. Waited 30min and tried another spot further along the road.―Anonymous, August 2016
66.49396, 25.70968
Get a ride to Oulu after 1 hour of waiting, good spot to hitch―Az-alcmar, June 2016
66.37105, 25.3786
Low car speed (50), bus stop. We would have gotten a ride to Oulu centre in 10min (but since we were going further south we wanted a ride to oulu where we could get 25km past Oulu to the big traffic circle). Got that kind of ride 20min later.―Anonymous, June 2016
62.14906, 25.67521
6min and we got a ride to Oulu. Low traffic and a bus stop. We came from Tampere and got a ride to Jyvskyl, but stopped already here 25km before Jyvskyl to get a good place to continue our journey to Rovaniemi. (If your going to Rovaniemi and you get a ride from this spot to Oulu, I would recommend getting out 25km before Oulu at the large traffic circle and stay there until you get a direct ride to Rovaniemi)―Anonymous, June 2016
62.25899, 25.75339
we were 2 waiting with a "oulu" and "krsmki" signs, I guy took us saying it was a dangerous place to wait and that police'll come...―Anonymous, February 2014