Best spot for heading East of Edinburgh. Lots of bins for cardbord

Quite large gas station. But pretty bad for direction Glasgow. I think I got a mercy ride out of here, but I think you are much better when heading towards Edinburgh or Stirling.

Gas stations are the gold standard and this is a good one. Not the biggest one, but still decent. There is a safe path from the city directly to here. I got a ride to Edinburgh.

I just came out of the gas station and a car with Belgian license plates pulled over to me and asked, if they can bring me somewhere. Long story short, got a ride directly to Edinburgh. Great spot, ask around the parking lot.

The traffic gets backed up here because of the lights and giving way. Enough time to quickly hop in and get on the M8. I got a lift with a lorry to just outside Edinburgh

A truck driver leant out the window and shouted “(something)(something) Livuhpeewl”. I couldn’t understand through the thick scouse accent. He might’ve been going to Liverpool. Along with every other driver for the next three hours. I abandoned my Edinburgh sign as the sun was setting and finally thumbed a lift to Glasgow before I gave up hope

Nice spot to catch a ride south. Got lucky they were going all the way to Edinburgh

People usually go north from here as it seems, but got lucky with a young German guy going right to Edinburgh

Great spot, maybe got lucky but a delivery driver took me trait to edinburgh. The only problem is getting here if you haven't just got drop of because the closest train station is 5km but still not bad.

Lot of people going in Edinburgh's direction, plus you have a service station nearby.

Easy ride, if I need to reach Glasgow/Edinburgh or even further down to England (sometimes lucky to reach destination by only one car). Or stand on opposite side of the road, if heading to Oban/Fort William.

It's a complicated spot for HH because the cars have space to edge one side... Very important to have a Sing !!!, I wait just 7 minutes with a sing to Edinburgh.

Not the safest HH spot, but still good towards Edinburgh or Glasgow. Just walk a little bit outwards from the roundabout. Got a ride to Edinburgh after 5 minutes! AdrianB

For going into Edinburgh, there is nowhere for cars to stop. Only option looks like bus stop, and anything but traffic for South Queensferry has to be in an outer lane so they are not going to have time to change lanes to get to bus stop. Maybe possible to hitchhike from roads leading to roundabout further up, but still not great, and there were roadworks making it harder when I was there recently.

to Edinburgh

hhike direction edinburgh, get a lift directly there in about 30 minutes. there is a small road on the roundabout.. looks pretty good.. lot of space to stop and people go slowly... u can walk there from the town.. +-30minutes walk

hhiked in the night.. didnt get a lift.. if u go one mile to east.. u fid a coop and morrisons in birtley.. if u cross the road via footbridge.. just go to the small forest.. was a safe spot to sleep... in the morning get ride in 30 minutes to berwick.. might try write edinburgh also.

After 3 hours of walking from the center of Edinburgh holding a sign saying 'A1 South' when we stopped here we had a lift in around 5 mins. Closer to the A1 the better.

Good spot to hitchhike towards Edinburgh if you visited the Dalwhinnie distillery. You catch all the cars from the A889, because they are still slow and even the cars from A9 can stop here. If you're walking from Dalwhinnie village hold up a sign if any car passes you and you can get a lift before you even get to this spot.

A spot towards Ullapool. Just after the gas station. The cars can stop on the small road. It's hard to say if this spot is good or bad, because cars can take you all the way to Edinburgh or leave you in the middle of nowhere.