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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 me

rating: 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 Oulu

rating: 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

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