Got a ride fairly quick, there's enough space for cars to pull off but barely. Gotta be ready to jump in quick. Overall hitchhiking in and around Cuenca seems to work a lot better than the rest of Spain.

Its a good spot of you are not afraid of approaching people. I spoke a little bit of Spanish with everyone, though have found an English guy going to Madrid. Be patient and polite!

Not that much space for cars but somehow it works. Guy from Bulgaria picked me up after 5-10 minutes of waiting.

I had sign A-2. Bolivian-Columbian couple picked me up after 1 horus. Mostly cars going to the south

Mostly locals, I waited cca 2 hours to catch someone till Zaragoza

Nice point to get long drives north or south (on the other side of the highway, there's a bridge to cross). Lots of traffic towards Barcelona (you don't wanna enter if it's not your final destination cause then it's difficult to exit) but also tourist, workers and other people with long commutes that are willing to help. Finally got home! 4 days and a half hitchhicking from Lisbon to Girona. Very fun.

The guy that drove me from Mequinensa to Alcarràs the day before said me he was going to Barcelona next day, so I slept near Lleida as it was getting late and at the morning he picked me up at my accomodation and dropped me at the servo. Mersi Jordi!!! Besides that i don't think it's a good spot to go futher than Lleida as there's mostly local traffic.

First tried to go Tárrega so i could skip Lleida, and I stayled like that for 30 min maybe, but it was getting late so I decide to sleep in Lleida, so I changed my sign to Lleida and got picked up in 10 min or so.

Nice area to hitchhike, people are really nice a willing to help. Lleida on my sign.

Mequinensa sign, got picked up quite fast. Local traffic. It was in the afternoon, but if you go in the morning i think you'll find lots of farm workers that could help you.

Bad spot, I was trying to go Lleida, tried with many signs, not a lot of traffic.

Nice area to hitchhike, people are really nice a willing to help. "Dirección Teruel" sign. As it's one single road and local traffic, good to just try reaching next town. Got lucky and got a direct ride to Teruel. Be carefull not to get stuck around this road at night as it's cold and accomodation options are not cheap or non existant.

Nice area to hitchhike, people are really nice a willing to help. "Dirección Teruel" sign. As it's one single road and local traffic, good to just try reaching next town.

Nice area to hitchhike, people are really nice a willing to help. "Dirección Teruel" sign. As it's one single road and local traffic, good to just try reaching next town.

Amazing Cuenca people, lots of drivers stopping and asking if they could help me. "Dirección Teruel" sign. There's just one road towards Teruel with some local traffic, so good thing to just try to reach next town.

In all this area there's a lot of local traffic and people are really willing to help, so you can easily jump from town to town with "Próximo pueblo" sign, thumb up and a good smile. Maybe you get lucky and get a lomger ride, but be fast thinking about the dropp off point, Maps in hand and willing change route or walk to change spot if in 20 min you realize you're not in a good one. Also nice area to share with people and eat good food. Got lucky and had a longer ride.

In all this area there's a lot of local traffic and people are really willing to help, so you can easily jump from town to town with "Próximo pueblo" sign, thumb up and a good smile. Maybe you get lucky and get a lomger ride, but be fast thinking about the dropp off point, Maps in hand and willing change route or walk to change spot if in 20 min you realize you're not in a good one. Also nice area to share with people and eat good food.

Not a good spot, vehicles go too fast. But a nice driver going the other way stopped to say me that if I'm there later he'd pick me up. Still I walked to a better spot.

Amazing one. Got picked up by literally tbe next car. In all this area there's a lot of local traffic and people are really willing to help, so you can easily jump from town to town with "Próximo pueblo" sign, thumb up and a good smile. Maybe you get lucky and get a lomger ride, but be fast thinking about the dropp off point, Maps in hand and willing change route or walk to change spot if in 20 min you realize you're not in a good one. Also nice area to share with people and eat good food.

In all this area there's a lot of local traffic and people are really willing to help, so you can easily jump from town to town with "Próximo pueblo" sign, thumb up and a good smile. Maybe you get lucky and get a lomger ride, but be fast thinking about the dropp off point, Maps in hand and willing change route or walk to change spot if in 20 min you realize you're not in a good one. Also nice area to share with people and eat good food.

Got a ride fairly quick, there's enough space for cars to pull off but barely. Gotta be ready to jump in quick. Overall hitchhiking in and around Cuenca seems to work a lot better than the rest of Spain.

Difficult spot, lots of local traffic and people not stopping, tried with Spain, A2, Evora, Badajoz... Even próxima área de serviço, just to get on the move to a better spot, but didn't work either. At the end I srarted talking with a very nice trucker that happened to go same way as me and could drop me in Mérida.

I came to this spot after trying the other gas station on the second highway. Here I got a ride but after 4 hours. I think Tuesdays are weaker days, but who knows. Truck drivers denied me with answe that it's prohibited for them in Spain to take people. In the end old French couple gave me ride to Zaragoza. It's fairly good spot to stand with sign, but no shade.

Biggest parking for trucks I've ever seen, maybe 200-300 of them. Every single one was going to France or Spain so it was s perfect spot to catch someone that direction. But we were going further into Italy There was mostly traffic from trucks but also a few cars going through. We've been waiting there for 2 hours asking around and caught a 300km ride somewhere around 23:00 by a guy that drove a Porsche there for some rich kids from Monaco For me the best spot in that neighborhood to go hop on the highway

Stood there right after the toll station. Cars going to Montpellier might have a problem to stop for you cause they need to cross the way of people on the right. Police came in 15 minutes and told us we need to move before the toll station. We stood right before the toll station with a sign pointing to people. I believe it's best to just stay on the little brick island between road's lines. Trying to pick someone from roads corner might be trickier cause many people pointing to the right on toll station are going the direction of Spain and we wanted to go Italy. After 20 minutes a nice 20years old solo lady invited us to her car (it was a technogirl speaking no English but loving techno)

In a normal country for hitchiking it would be a perfect spot. But in Spain we waited 3 hours till some Italian guys took us. My mate was even talking Spanish and asking people around the gas station but everyone seemed to be afraid to take hitchikers. Been asking around gas station, staying with a sign on a bus stop near gas station and also trying to get someone on the entrance to highway and not much luck. Police came and said that we got to leave the highway's entrance. A much more traffic to Barcelona though so maybe it would be better and we were trying to go to France

it serves both directions so it can be tricky, besides fuel is more expensive than in spain. and yet i was picked up by a german whose mother, in another car, needed fuel. there was a lot of people, the spanish were telling me they were unfortunately coming from spain but would take me

I'd say it's a pretty good spot if it wasn't Spain. Plenty of traffic, plenty of people going my direction. But thr Spaniards don't take hitchhikers so no success here. Better go to the station and ask directly, it seems like they won't decide to take you by just standing. Even with a sign "Córdoba)

A lot of cars and trucks passing by slowly. People that only stopped for gas dont come here though. Found a lift with a truck driver going to Pamplona (I was heading for spain so this was great)

The gas station is quite busy and almost everyone goes to madrid. You can find toilets, showers (broken atm) and a small shop with chargers. The prices are the usual. There is a small restaurant but not many people come to eat. Most stop for a quick pause as there is a small park nearby. Its as good as it gets for spain, many people are freaked out by hitchhiking but we managed to catch a ride to madrid within 30min.

To go towards Madrid/Andalusia: You reach this spot by the public „metrobus“ 430A from Valencia. Its not the red city busses but the yellow metrobus. It starts from the main bus station but dont try to catch it there because noone knows where it departs. We caught it one spot down from there and it came by the time stated on google maps. Its like 3€. The spot itself is not great but okay. There are people going to Valencia or other local towns (many), some to Madrid and quite a few to Andalusia/Sevilla/Portugal. Many cars are full. We arrived at 20:00 and tried for 2 hours and got close to a lift to madrid multiple times. We went to sleep in a field nearby which was perfect. Next day it took us another 2 hours to go to another service station 1 1/2 hours towards spain. I don't know if we just got unlucky but I think its just spain. Many people are shocked when you ask them for a lift.

To go towards Madrid/Andalusia: You reach this spot by the public „metrobus“ 430A from Valencia. Its not the red city busses but the yellow metrobus. It starts from the main bus station but dont try to catch it there because noone knows where it departs. We caught it one spot down from there and it came by the time stated on google maps. Its like 3€. The spot itself is not great but okay. There are people going to Valencia or other local towns (many), some to Madrid and quite a few to Andalusia/Sevilla/Portugal. Many cars are full. We arrived at 20:00 and tried for 2 hours and got close to a lift to madrid multiple times. We went to sleep in a field nearby which was perfect. Next day it took us another 2 hours to go to another service station 1 1/2 hours towards spain. I don't know if we just got unlucky but I think its just spain. Many people are shocked when you ask them for a lift.

The spot is alright, with a lot of space for cars to stop. Iwas a bit afraid for my first hitchhiking experience in Spain as I read that it would be significantly more difficult than in France. I was on my way to a village close to Girona which is a bit of an awkward way from Puigcerda so I wrote Ripoll and Vic on my cardboard. Eventually someone stopped and said he would take me to the place where the road to Ripoll starts. After talking a bit it turned out he would be going all the way to Girona in the afternoon after having lunch with his wife. I had to kill a few hours but was very lucky with my direct ride.

Glad to see other comments replicate my experience. The truck driver who dropped us off here said there were going to be a lot of spanish trucks that could take us directly to Spain. We had our hopes up in the beginning, but we slowly lost hope... Basically, this is a good spot to go to Geneve. After some hours, we were just trying to go past Lyon into the A6 or A7 highway. Took a long time, but in the end we found a truck driver from Spain who, after a little bit of conversation, became willing to take both of us (a couple) all the way across the border. Lucky! I don't know what I would have done otherwise.

the staff is friendly and helpful. the spot was empty during the night, as pretty much all in spain. and mind you it was during the apagón. it works for several directions, namely murcia, valencia, one trucker even said he was going to badajoz. eventually a romanian van driver took me all the way to porta de barcelona, even a bit out of his way. thanks, mihail

Really good spot to reach Spain, Bayonne

Good spot to reach Pays Basque (Bayone) Spain or Dax

Took about 30 mins, decent spot for cars to stop - but its Spain so getting a ride isnt the easiest, but it’ll come.

Not a lot of space for the cars to stop and there aren't too many going deeper into Spain. Gpt lucky and were picked up by the bus

The car are going slow and there's space to stop. Good for going into the direction to Spain but probably hard to get in to Spain.