Ask around from the truckers stopping here to take you further, if you get lucky you can find a direct ride to Estonia, all of the lorries here go distance, but you have to be lucky in timing because this parking next to the petrol station only can have about 2-3 trucks at once stopping.

Ask around from the truckers stopping here to take you further, if you get lucky you can find a direct ride to Estonia, all of the lorries here go distance, but you have to be lucky in timing because this parking next to the petrol station only can have about 2-3 trucks at once stopping.

Towards well Adaži, thought I'd try this bus stop/driveway for once for the honor of the Baltezers cyclist, however it does not work really and if you are here, agree with any car that goes further, even if it's just to Adaži, you'll be stuck here otherwise, wait times of 30-100 minutes expected

Towards north, sort of Latvian middle of nowhere magic applies to this spot also, uncomfortable for cars to stop, but you'll still get a car within 15 minutes

Towards Ogre, poor bus stop, wait times of 60+ minutes expected, for some reason getting a car going out further on A6 never works

Added this here too, since the other spot I had was only for the traffic coming from southbound, don't get the other negative review, as both a bit further south or here, I have always caught a car relatively fast, the most I have ever waited here was 25 minutes, more likely to get a car within 5-15 minutes, just use common sense and dont even think about stopping lorries

Towards LT, been here quite some times, always conflicting, this spot is ideal for long distance cars, but you have to get here in the first half of the day when those cars come by, in the evening or in the dark it really is long long wait, if you even get a car. The spot itself is great, huge roadside where you can stop anything, also behind top! there are few lorries parked for the nights, but most of the companies are at the most going to southern Lithuania. If you get here early you'll get a ride within 5-10 minutes, if you come here in the evening expect 60+ minutes of waiting

Towards Bauska, not really a great spot, and you'd normally go further up the road, but when it's going to get dark, you'll have to stay here due to this here being the last area with street lights (which is the only reason I'll give it 3 stars), very uncomfortable for cars to stop here, most of the petrol station cars will head back to Iecava, you can ask around in the station, in the end the best bet is to get a local feeling sorry for you, wait times of 50-70 minutes to be expected, not impossible but will take a lot of time

Towards Jelgava, there's a small bus stop, but due to the cars turning and great visibility, you'll catch a car even at dark within 20 minutes, loads of cars go half or all the way to Jelgava

Towards Iecava, middle of nowhere magic, wide road, amazing visibility and due to average speed cameras, cars are likely to stop to be able to drive faster afterwards. Definitely avoid at night tho, you'd get stuck here, but during the daytime, wait times of on average 5 minutes are literally to be expected

2026 spring update, amazing spot right now, road works have taken down the speeds, instead of two lanes there's only one very slow, due to the redirections of bus lines (no people besides you) and huge bus stop, its amazingly comfortable for cars to stop here, which means for the time the roadworks are in affect (most likely til the end of the year or til next spring) you will have a literal cheatcode to get out of Riga to Kekava, wait times 5-15 minutes expected right now, good luck and use it while you can!

Instead of being on highway or using very uncomfortable Circle K spot, just walk here from Adaži and here in this 50km/h area with huge safe shoulder for cars to stop and loads of traffic which most of is going to Riga, where you most likely would want to go, you'll get a car within 5-15 minutes to Riga, doable all year long any time

Towards Adaži, if u get lucky you can catch a car going to Riga too, quite some traffic, but speeds are high and not the greatest side of the road to stop a car, avoid at dark, wait times of 10-25 minutes expected

Towards Valka, there's a bus stop here not marked on the map, but honestly it's not worth it, everyone speeds and it's kind of hidden behind the bollards so therefore just stay in Strenci or at least the other side of Staklupite river, wait times of 100+ minutes here

If headed to Strenci, this is a deadpoint in the road, most cars turn to Plani or Trikata, walk at least to Vijciems roads, here you'd wait 40+ minutes, very low traffic

Towards Strenci, locals head this road to there, little traffic but hitchable, wait times of 20-40 minutes expected

Towards Strenci, nice long part of a road, you can also try in Brutuli, but there's cars turning from both sideroads as well, so you have to keep that in mind, wait times of 20-30 minutes expected

Towards Smiltene, amazing wide shoulder and bus stop, everyone heads there too, wait times of 5 minutes expected

Towards Gulbene/Balvi, mostly long distance drivers past this point, wait times of 5-20 minutes, low traffic and will be able to stop only personal cars

Towards Gulbene/Balvi, nice little bus stop and lowered speeds, but lacks lights so therefore you can only hitch here during the day, wait times of 10-20 minutes, not too much traffic

Indeed ideal spot for going basically anywhere towards Riga or major cities in Latvia, as well as even further south, wide enough bus stop to have a lorry stop, decent street lights for the darker times, okay amount of traffic, wait times of 10-25 minutes expected

Tough spot. Not a busy gas station but you can hitch the road from the gas station exit. Didn't have any luck to Latvia from here, only found a ride to the next village. If you wait long enough, getting to Riga shouldn't be a problem though.

Stood at the end of the gas station to catch the road + people leaving the station and quickly found a ride a bit forwards. Probably better to get a ride to Latvia from here though, than to get shorter ones.

Fast speeds but a lot of traffic. Good for Klaipeda but also north towards Latvia. Have a big sign. I had "LV" written and it took me on the right road but not too far.

Perfect place, just check the ferry arrival times, lots of trucks to Latvia and Estonia.

Good spot to catch cars/trucks out of the ferry, there's space to stop and entrance to a parking. If you come in the Viking Line you will have time to catch at least the last half of the vehicles heading out. Got a truck almost all the way to Riga. Solo female, in the middle of a storm, sign Latvia.

Great spot towards Latvia, got taken to the border, easy to continue from there.

very convenient spot to get to Klaipeda/Latvia. to conveniently get to the place take bus 32 until "9-ojo forto muziejus" bus stop from the city centre. costs 1 Euro but you can not pay if you're greedy, no one checks anyway.

Moved here from the other spot next to the Sillaotsa bus stop (waited there 2,5h). From here I got a ride in 10min directly to Ikla (Estonia-Latvia border). Stand next to the motorway at the traffic lights, use a thumb preferably. 16 Jul 2025

Many cars that go to the Latvia. We talked to 3 drivers and found a drive almost to Riga

We tried different signs, but only a few cars stopped. Most went to Klaipeda. Not the best spot to go to Latvia. Very much very fast traffic, but the spot itself is alright.

Wild camping at the water side, and started early in the morning, a man from Latvia picked me up when he was going to work in Bogen

Amazing gas station for either direction, try to find PL cars for going Poland and EST,LV for Latvia/Estonia, a lot of international cars around here, ask around, you'll most likely find someone going your way sooner or later, usually sooner, within 10-20 minutes. You can also hitchhike next to the gas station towards Panevežys if you find no cars going your way (north), still a very good bus stop also

Not a single good spot in Misso to go towards Latvia, I just kept walking on the road since really little traffic, you'll be better off at the straight parts of the road than here

After the closure of the Russian border the traffic has dried up, will take quite some time to get a car towards Latvia, waiting time of 20-30 minutes

Even though it doesn't look that promising the spot just keeps delivering, lots of traffic to Latvia and Lithuania and somehow they always stop here within 10-20 minutes, in itself it's just a bus stop and not many cars turning from Linnavere road

before the nightfall (around 20h in the summer, meaning actually no real night), some cars in two hours, most of the cars going the other direction, it is mostly a road for tourist, because it is on the coast. probably tourist from central Europa come this way north and go south in central of Latvia, still possible to hitchhike and have more luck on daytime

remeber, you only need a ride 10km till the crossing of the via baltica if you want to go towards latvia. ditch the sign and only thumb, its a bit frustrating but it will work! from the crossing its stupidly easy to go north

Best spot in direction to Latvia, Riga as there is a bus stop so cars have space to stop.

To Latvia. Great spot, high speeds but tons of room for them to see you and stop.