Cologno Monzese Est

Still waiting a ride. Black snake in the long grass. Been here 1.5 hour no takers

rating: 2/5, wait: 90 min

―Anon12344, May 2025

We waited 50 minutes and then got a great ride. While we were there, a police car pulled up and stayed there for 20 minutes.

rating: 4/5, wait: 50 min

―MB, March 2025

Good spot to go out of Milan, as said by the other, need to jump over fences but managed to find a truck quite quickly!

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 8 km →

―Emric, October 2023

Main thing to remember: In Italy the highways are fenced, so you have to find your way inside. We got here from nearby bridge because there're ways to get inside

rating: 3/5, wait: 45 min, ride: 21 km ↗

―Anonymous, September 2023

So this is the spot №1 from the "how to get out of Milan" guide. At least that's how I got here. The instructions were mostly clear and intuitive, though some things have already changed since the article was written. As such, for some reason the metro train wasn't going all the way to Cologno Nord station. Rather it stops at Cascina Gobba and from there you have to take a bus to the desired metro station. The ride was about 20 min long and I didn't even pay for it.
When I got to Cologno Nord I followed the instructions and walked for about half a mile in the northeast direction until I saw the big electricity pole. To get to it, I had to jump over a 2 meter wide trench (it's more convinient if you cross it at the car gate to your right). Then I had to make a jump over a yet another trench, this time just below the electricity pole. Though I found the doors to be closed with padlocks so I had to jump over the fence from where you can just casually walk downhill to the gas station.

Advice: watch out for the stingy bushes, wouldn't recommend going this way if you're wearing just shorts and a t-shirt (you're likely to scratch yourself badly due to the dense vegetation that stands in your way).

After I got to the station I got picked up pretty quickly. The driver gave me a lift all the way to Bergamo from where I went with another car to my destined city of Brescia.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 32 km ↗

―ahqpey, September 2023

It's very easy to reach! when you turn right at the bridge continue to walk you ll find an open door (07-2014)! but keep in mind there's a new highway that connects Milan to Brescia directly without passing to Bergamo! it's faster but this spot should still working good!

―Vulla, August 2014

There are friendly people, we just ask them, that we would like to go with them, and lot of them was friendly, and help us :)

―Anonymous, August 2013

This is the 2nd spot described at the "East towards Verona" section of the "Milano" hitchwiki page (http://hitchwiki.org/en/Milan). The directions to get here are the following:

"An alternative and easier option is to take the metro (green line) to Cologno Nord. It doesn't really matter which exit you leave the station by, as long as you are walking north. Follow the road for about 5 or 10 minutes until you get to the beginning of the bridge over the motorway. Rather than actually crossing the bridge, you turn right, off the road, and walk along the raised grassy area beside the motorway. After 4 or 5 minutes you will have reached a gas station."

I followed them and got there with no problems whatsoever. Even though it's a small place and not too many cars or trucks stop there, I got a lift in about 30 minutes!

―Anonymous, October 2011