Car are a bit fast, but very good traffic and HUGE place to pull over. So perfect spot to go to upsala.

Classic highway entrance. (Even though it's technically not a highway). Not a good spot, no real clear place to pull over, but car are slow enough and I get lucky and found a ride in 10" to enkoping.

Car are a bit fast. But decent rate and good visibilty. Git a ride to the next town in 10"

Not ideal, waited here for an hour until police sent us away. There are two lanes (one going back towards Göteborg) which seems to be confusing the drivers. Realistically only little space to stop, but at least quite a lot of traffic

Just a bus stop, good as any of this kind of spots. I would go further but actually my driver saw that he left his laptop in a hotel all the way in Kiruna... Great ride tho.

Some middle east immigrants took me, but then they asked me for a money for a ride. I talked with them about idea of hitchhiking and asked them to leave me in first safe spot 20km from Umea. Misunderstanding, but it was respectful from both sides.

Good classic spot

So I spent hours at this place. I tried for 2h, then spent a night in a tent on other side of bridge, in the morning I got ride in 1,5h

At this place I was lucky you can say, but in general expect 1-2h waiting times at least on this road. But people and nature are amazing.

No traffic at all...

All that road is good lesson of patience and calmness, almost no cars at all

great. Barely enough space to stop. But I'm not sure there is a better option. I was extremely lucky and got a ride to Stockholm in 5min. Yes I'm flexing 😎

Ride to Harnosand in 10minute. Good spot Solo male thuesday morning

Me and my friend (2m) caught a ride far north from here. Many trucks passing by. Ideal for following the E4 direction Stockholm.

Got lucky with a ride to nordmaling in 5 minutes, but the conditions are not good. Lot of traffic, barely any safe space to stop.

Ride to lovanger, about 30min. Good spot.

Probably you could catch a long ride from this perfect spot. But after 10min i just took a ride to the end of the city to continue south.

Not great indeed. Got a truck to the next big town about 50min. But I don't think there is better option from Piteo. So just be brave !

Instant ride with finish people in a van, going all the way to sundsvall !

Pretty lonely but also visible. Don’t get caught out here in inclement weather or season.

Quiete a good spot towards Denmark and Sweden, unfortunately I arrived at 5 pm at Buddikate Ost and until I gave up at 8 pm I want able to get a lift towards the ferry in Puttgarden, quiet soon after arriving at the petrol station though I met multiple truck driver who would head towards Sweden the next morning (I thought that I would be able to catch a ride that evening so I didn't paided sufficient attention to this). After sleeping in my tent I got up the next morning and was able to catch a ride after waiting for two hours

Not great conditions, but trafic is low enough si people will stop. And it's not like there is any other options nearby. Got a ride to sweden in 5 min.

Got chased on my walk to the road by a guy who took me here on my way to Umeå, much easier to get rides here than in Sweden I think

Not really a great spot, but it might be just Sweden. Got picked up by a nice elderly lady. Hitched during early morning.

Lazy to ask people so i stayed there and did not wait this long to find a ride directly to where i wanted in Sweden

Guy took me to a good spot in Malmö to go north. Recommended spot to go to Sweden.

Lot of truck drivers. Good for goteborg, helsingborg, trelleborg, ystad or other cities in sweden. Just ask around lot of polish and ukrainian drivers. Keep in mind that lot of drivers is waiting for the papers, it can take 10,20 minutes or 5 hour or like mine drive who took me 4 days but happy for me i was waiting around an hour

Great visilibity and a lot place for cars to stop even for trucks. Great spot for oslo and sweden. Truck driver took me to the border. Keep in mind that in this area theres very few cars so you can wait a while but theres no other option:) Solo male, thumb

A guy and a girl without a sign on a Thursday at noon. Seems to be a very good spot to go to Sweden. We wanted to go to Oslo, but we accepted the first ride that took us East of Malmö. We should have waited a bit longer to go further north though, as there must be a lot of people going everywhere in Sweden that pass through here, and Sweden is hard to hitchhike...

Only little traffic to Sweden in the evening, but I got lucky with a tow truck

Good spot towards ventspils, also not much traffic after 7pm. Got picked by a truck driver going towards ventspils. Idk, maybe it's even possible to cross the ferry to Sweden with them if you ask kindly?

Waited quite a while in the hot sun with a sign. Good place to stop, but not always easy to hitch in Sweden. Finally got a ride with a guy who took me quite a bit towards the northwest. Male/summer

Good spot to head south from Alta. People can go longer distances to Finland/Sweden. Summer, male traveller

Male, Sunday evening in summer, going south to Sweden. Mostly local traffic, but this is a place where people pass from Norway/Finland driving down to Sweden. Also a gasstation and a store nearby. Didn't need to camp because an elderly couple took me late in the evening to Sweden, but I think there is plenty of opportunities to camp in the forest.

Big space on the side for cars to stop, all traffic towards Sweden going through. Also a tiny little cafe.

Agree with the other review. Lots of cars going out of the highway, nobody going in direction Sweden. Got a ride of a local to a bit further, in a place where cars could stop on the side of the road.

By waiting near the exit with a sign, I was picked up by a German woman going to Frankfurt, heading back from her vacation in Sweden. Perfect timing.

Perfect, some greek/Albanians took me, they were going in vacation in Greece from Sweden. Lots of nice and no so nice people here !

Hi! I'm a Swedish journalist working on a piece about hitchhiking. Are you currently (or have recently) hitchhiked through western Sweden? Then I want to interview you! Send med an email on klara.larsson@bohuslaningen.se . Happy travels!

Hi! I'm a Swedish journalist working on a piece about hitchhiking. Are you currently (or have recently) hitchhiked through western Sweden? Then I want to interview you! Send med an email on klara.larsson@bohuslaningen.se . Happy travels!