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Recent reviews mentioning York

42.1468, -74.62367

September 2024, not easy but there are still kind and hospitable people in New York state :)

rating: 4/5, wait: 45 min 👍, ride: 73 km ↘

―Worldhitchhiker, July 2025

September 2024, 15:30, hitchhiking in USA is difficult, but New York State and New England are some of the best areas

rating: 4/5, wait: 55 min 👍, ride: 37 km →

―Worldhitchhiker, Thu 12 Sep 2024, 15:28

43.06495, -73.15747

Slow highway. Ride from a guy who told us all about Manchester. Complained about the New York transplants but admitted that he was one himself.

rating: 3/5, wait: 45 min, ride: 19 km ↗

―Mossythemuse, June 2025

42.635, -73.77794

Felt a little odd hitchhiking in the middle of the city but we got a ride all the way to the bus station in Troy pretty quick. All the folks we met in upstate New York were really nice.

rating: 3/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 16 km ↗

―Mossythemuse, June 2025

41.00154, -75.15215

Guy wasn't going anywhere and offered to drop us off a few minutes up the road. A few minutes turned into an hour and he took us all the way to New York.

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 95 km ↗

―Mossythemuse, June 2025

41.10612, -73.4189

There's limited shoulder on the interstate on-ramps going down most of 95 in Connecticut, but all the on-ramps in Norwalk are screwy.

Was stopped by a state trooper a ways back for "Improper use of the highway" for being on an on-ramp. (Can't actually find anything about this specific term or like terms via Google). Although I didn't receive a ticket, I was ordered to move to the street leading up to the on-ramp.

You can ride on the train to New York City from as far back as New Haven for nine dollars.

―Anonymous, July 2015

53.80752, -1.46908

BP garage. Cars can pull in just up the road, also near traffic lights. Good location for hitching north towards York.

―Anonymous, June 2014

53.97449, -1.15508

Used this spot when I was leaving York to go to Newcastle via A1(M). There was construction going on just before this spot, so cars weren't going so fast. They can pull into the side road, as it (probably) isn't frequently used.

I waited 5 minutes for a ride to Scotch Corner (A1/A66 junction) on a Friday around noon.

―Anonymous, October 2013

53.94792, -1.10013

This is my preferred spot for leaving York to go South. Standing 30 metres or so in front of one of the bus stops here works, and

―Anonymous, February 2013

53.92815, -1.11661

Quite some bus stops and such closer to York but people don't seem to go towards the A64 much and there's nowhere to pull over near the A64

―Atopia, October 2012