Mexico - Hitchhiking

Hitchhiking in Mexico

Hitchhiking to Mexico

Recent reviews in Mexico

22.49008, -105.38372

Great spor for going either north or south, gas station and covenience stores nearby

rating: 4/5, ride: 151 km ↘

―rockdolfo, September 2025

15.86085, -97.05879

Bump still there, easy to hitchhike. Got direct ride to Mazunte with a sign.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 🪧, ride: 74 km →

―verdederos, Mon 16 Dec 2024, 13:00

18.95472, -88.16524

Many many cars, but not very shady. Days can be very hot and the wait seems longer.

rating: 2/5, wait: 35 min, ride: 88 km ↑

―Fresnillo, June 2025

18.68459, -88.39561

If you are lucky you can get long rides all along the coast.

rating: 5/5, wait: 0 min, ride: 48 km ↗

―Fresnillo, June 2025

20.61753, -87.09498

High traffic area next to the exit of a large shopping centre, easy to get a ride down south.
-Apr 2025

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 73 km ↙

―BoyTroyson, Thu 24 Apr 2025, 10:32

Wait at a speed bump for a ride along this road, plenty of tourists coming from La Zona Hotelera will drive you at least to the intersection of highway 307, might even get a ride to a popular tourist destination if you're lucky

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 4 km ↑

―BoyTroyson, April 2025

20.50707, -87.71762

Cars are slower here coming through the roundabout so more likely to stop. Pretty low traffic but shouldn't be too tough finding a ride. Amazing guys gave me a ride all the way back to DT Tulum

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 53 km ↘

―BoyTroyson, April 2025

20.21789, -87.45461

High traffic area with plenty of space to pull over

rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 53 km ↖

―BoyTroyson, April 2025

20.69938, -88.60003

Some cars going to Merida, lot of space to pull over

rating: 3/5, wait: 50 min, ride: 137 km ←

―Anonymous, February 2025

16.1296, -95.30931

Quite hard to find a ride. We were passed by some illegal immigrants heading towards US (going from their "pit stop" in Salina Cruz)

rating: 3/5, wait: 70 min, ride: 163 km ←

―Anonymous, February 2025

18.07942, -92.91731

The spot looks super good for long-distance hitchhiking - many truck and cars, toll gates so everyone is going super slowly, lot of place to pull over... But it was the longest time we have ever waited for any vihicule to just stop... supposedly the "red zone" with a lot of drugtraffiking, hijacking, robberies and so on. No one is willing to pull over, even though there is a police station just on the corner. Impossible to get to the city of Villahermosa from there because there is no public transportation

rating: 1/5, wait: 180 min, ride: 296 km →

―Anonymous, February 2025

18.88654, -96.96552

Super hard to find a ride. It is the "red zone", reportedly many hijackings and robberies on the highway towards Villahermosa

rating: 1/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 545 km →

―Anonymous, February 2025

16.74106, -93.03707

Caseta de cobro somewhere on this stretch.

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min, ride: 55 km →

―Zenit, February 2025

16.72206, -92.65172

With a Tuxtla sign.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 53 km ←

―Zenit, February 2025

16.66703, -92.56505

Speed bump with bus stop. The drive to Ocosingo takes another three hours or so!

rating: 4/5, wait: 45 min, ride: 71 km ↗

―Zenit, February 2025

16.91443, -92.0998

Tough spot. What we didn´t know: Just around the corner, there´s a gas station with a speed bump!

rating: 2/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 76 km ↑

―Zenit, February 2025

20.21458, -87.45179

There´s a speed bump here. Got a ride quite quickly with a sign saying Cancun

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 138 km ↗

―Zenit, February 2025

18.98041, -88.1125

Kind of a deserted crossroad, might not always be so lucky

rating: 4/5, wait: 1 min, ride: 192 km ↗

―Zenit, February 2025

18.69336, -88.38828

Ride to almost Playa del Carmen

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 305 km ↗

―Zenit, February 2025

20.20586, -87.47959

Probably the best spot leaving Tulum towards the South, after a speed bump. Quite a lot of traffic, got a few short ride offers before ending up taking the ride all the way where we were going.

rating: 4/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 209 km ↓

―Zenit, February 2025

Recent reviews mentioning Mexico

20.56329, -100.24295

Not so great spot on the way to Mexico but it's ok if needed. Cars going pretty fast but it's possible to catch something

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min

―Stanyly, November 2023

20.57413, -100.39636

Good place for hiking in direction of Mexico. Cars are going pretty fast but they have time to see you.

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min

―Stanyly, November 2023

66.01, -169.73781

So at winter I drank some vodka and rode my bear to Chukotka. I stood there for some time until I saw a dog team. So I thumbed up and got picked. The driver dropped me at Alyaska. Ditch Mexico, there's a hole up north!

―Anonymous, August 2016

32.2603, -109.19882

The last little bit of civilization here before New Mexico is a truck stop. Terrible place. One of the managers doesn't care what you do here, she and her husband house up transients. Due to the weird on-ramp you need a directional sign. Hard to get a ride east.

―Anonymous, April 2016

41.00176, -75.2709

I was going to Mexico (Jan 2014) and was offered two rides to Chicago before I finally accepted the third. Staff was really chill.

―Dr.Keith, May 2015

19.50786, -97.49596

"Cantona" tollbooth (caseta) on the Mexico City/Puebla to Xalapa highway. There's an archaeological site called Cantona 4km away. There's a gas station and restrooms, so you can talk to stopped drivers.

―Anonymous, April 2015

19.63073, -97.1259

Tollbooth (caseta) on the paid road towards Puebla/Mexico City. You can easily walk here from the small town of Las Vigas. Cars are coming out slow out of the tollbooth, and can stop with no problem. There's no restrooms or gas station here.

―Anonymous, April 2015

19.59074, -96.95332

Buses from Xalapa center to Banderilla can let you off right here. It's the road to Puebla and Mexico City, but the free one, so you're not likely to get a long distance ride. The spot is a good one, cars have tons of room to stop and can see you long before they get to you. Try to get one at least to Las Vigas, where you can easily get on the paid (cuota) road and hitch from a tollbooth (caseta).
If you get stuck, an intercity bus from TRV company going further towards Las Vigas, Perote, and Teziutlan stops here.

―Anonymous, April 2015

19.59408, -96.94413

Buses from Xalapa center to Banderilla stop about a 5-minute walk away. There's a traffic light right before the division between the free (libre) and paid (cuota) highways towards Puebla and Mexico City. If you're going long distance, the paid one would be better, but those going there would be in the inner, further lanes, so it can be hard to get a ride from here.

―Anonymous, April 2015

47.53461, 19.10361

A really good place, you can get here by going the yellow metro to Mexico ut (the last station) and then taking a bus no. 25

―Kurdemol94, May 2014

20.62783, -103.29111

Take a bus to the new bus station.
There is a Soriana market out there.
On that big road (the hwy to the East), go left, crossing Av.Patria, still walking and you will see a Pemex gas station, where there are many cars, pick ups and trucks going East (Mexico DF, Morelia, Guanajuato, etc)

Tomas un bus hacia la nueva central camionera, a fuera hay un soriana, pues en esa carretera principal vas hacia la izquierda (como volviendo a Gdl), cruzars Av.Patria, y en seguida llegars a una gasolinera Pemex

―Anonymous, November 2013

20.61721, -103.25362

18.9864, -99.11214

Direction Mexico city.

―Anonymous, December 2012

19.89805, -101.14569

Cars go by really fast, but it's the most important route in between Mexico city and Guadalajara, the two biggest cities in Mxico, so, although you might have to wait a little bit, the next ride might take you all the way.

―Anonymous, September 2012

37.00758, -94.56035

single female had to wait 10-15 min to get ride to New Mexico

―Anonymous, June 2012

19.25297, -99.1208

Here is the place where I started a nomadic art project related with hitchhiking in Mexico. I painted in white on the asphalt my own shadow projected on the road with my thumb up. I did this action in all the right places in Mexico City to get out from the city.
I painted the first shadow in that place, near the art college of Mexico City, ENAP. It's an abandoned petrol station. I think it's not a really good spot for hitchhiking, but I just wanted to explain the project here.
If you want to know more info about this, you can contact with me: aniol.macau@gmail.com THANKS! and good trip!

―Anonymous, October 2011

19.24089, -99.14801

Thats a good spot if you want to hitch from Mexico to the south of the republic (directions: Cuernavaca, Tepoztlan, Oaxtepec, Chilpancingo, Acapulco). Theres a toll where you can ask for a raid but if its not possible, you go walking 200 meters from the toll to a bar next to the road, in your right hand. In that place youre going to find a painted white shadow (my own shadow with the thumb up) on the asphalt, this is an art project Ive been working in Mexico City, painting different shadows in all the right places to get out from the city. If you want to know more info about this, you can contact with me: aniol.macau@gmail.com THANKS! and good trip!

―Anonymous, October 2011

16.67564, -92.58118

This was my first hitch spot in Mexico. I think I walked for maybe five minutes before I was picked up to get back to San Cristbal. Little buses (colectivos) came by constantly too, but putting my thumb down when they went by saved me 10 pesos in the end.

―Anonymous, January 2011

31.91163, -116.693

Waited ages here - north Mexico is just not good hitching territory :

rating: 2/5

―Anonymous