Raststation Walserberg Süd
We asked around on the parkplace, couldn't find the spot to stand, but there are a lof of peoplerating: 4/5, wait: 80 min 💬, ride: 172 km ↘
―Anonymous, Wed 30 Jul 2025, 15:50
Most cars going to Villach (and Balkans), wouldn't recommend for direction Linz. Luckily a savior found us, even at night in the rain, asking us directly in our language where we were going, and took us all the way.
rating: 3/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 145 km ↗
―friki, April 2025
Nobody was taking us even if they went in the same direction to Villach, since every car was packed with families going on vacation to Croatia, no space for hitchhikers. Hostile spot
rating: 1/5, wait: 210 min 💬+🪧, ride: 53 km ↘
―Inni, Sat 12 Apr 2025, 12:51
Has a lot of potential and maybe we were just unlucky but this was not a good point to go East. Many going South that we didn't ask though. Austrians are very difficult people when it comes to hitchhiking, not much luck with them. We settled for a short ride into Salzburg with an American tourist to try and find a better spot
rating: 2/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 13 km ↗
―Anonymous, February 2025
Waited only like 10 Minutes with a sign to Villach and found someone, who took me to Ljubljana. I think asking around here works good as well, because there are a lot of cars. Easy to reach from Salzburg by foot and Bus.
rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min
―Anonymous, October 2024
waited for 30min with just sign at the exit, got approsched by a very nice man and his campervan, took me all the way to slovenia
rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 279 km ↘
―AsqueN, August 2024
Horrible if you try to get to Linz or Vienna, amazing if you try to get south. Had to change spot because everybody went south.
rating: 3/5, wait: 180 min 💬
―mueval, July 2024
Have been here 3 times during summer holiday. Quite a good spot direction Slovenia, direction Vienna was a bit difficult. Got a ride after 1.5 hours to Linz. You can stand there with a sign which is very good place because cars are slow and see you well. But its better to go around and ask the people.
rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 139 km ↗
―Anonymous, August 2023
Many cars passing by with Slovenian or other southern licence plates. Wanted to go to Croatia and had a sign which said Ljubljana, got many reactions, but nobody was willing to take us. Later we chanced our sign to Slovenia. Waited really long in the sun, there is no place in the shade. Finally, a Croatian guy took us directly to Zagreb, a perfect place to hhike to the south.
rating: 4/5, wait: 150 min, ride: 397 km ↘
―Тріпчечкас, July 2023
Terrible spot, don‘t hitchhike here if you wanna get a ride north. Mostly just business travelers with no soft spot for hitchhikers or families with full cars stopping for Mc Do.
Don‘t go here! It‘s a hostile place.
rating: 1/5, wait: 180 min
―Anonymous, April 2023
Hitchhiked to Slovenia. It was about 5pm and little traffic was going through. At this spot the cars from both gas-stations have to go through. We made a sign with "slovenia" and got a lift after about 20min to Bovec in the Triglav National Park.
―Anonymous, September 2016
Not a very good spot to go south, most people here were going towards Vienna and Graz or into Salzburg.
―Maxim1110, December 2015
Not good place for going to Vienna, as most traffic goes to the south. moreover, during summer ~80% of cars are full of stuff and people, so you have to wait for someone who's not going on vacation.
took us (two females) 3h to get a lift towards St. Polten. (august '15)
―Anonymous, August 2015
1,2 and 3 guys, weekdays, direction Wien, Linz
This seems to be very good place, but only if you are heading south, not many cars are going north. We had to spend night there and then hitchike for next three hours to get a ride at least in A1 directin. We were three, then two, but I only managed to get ride when I was alone, cars were usually completely full and all trucks were heading south.
―RazorSK, August 2015
tried to catch a lift to Vienna, that I got after 45min but generally most of the cars go south. it is probably a quite good spot: many cars, parking place, gas station and mc donalds restaurant :-)
―Tommy90, August 2012
very good place for going south. lots of cars from slovenia. got a lift to ljubljana in 15 minutes. also you can eat sth in mcdonalds ;)
―Helmik, May 2012
We waited 10 minutes but we got many reactions of drivers who just didn't drive far enough for us.
―Miriamino, April 2012
Not very legal but everyone leaving has to pass you, so there's tons of traffic. There's a small spot where the car can stop to let you in before returning to the A1.
―Anonymous, April 2012
Got a ride on a truck headed to Vienna. It's easy and offers many options (most drivers going West/North will stop here since fuel in Austria is about 20-30 cents cheaper than in Germany and even those coming from Germany will wait to get into Austria before refueling for the same reason), you just need to know where to stop.
―Sam iam, October 2011
late july 2011, raining a lot, i waited over 4 hours ; route Münich - Ljubljana ; the guy that picked me after i had gotten desperate took me PAST salzburg, so i decided to travel ON to graz and take quite a detour...
―Anonymous, October 2011
It's a good hitchhiking place depending where you go. Traffic mainly flows to South Europe. Wien and Budapest is very rare... Try Nurnberg -> Passau instead.
―Cighir Victor, July 2011
A huge petrol station at the border [[Germany]] /Austria. A lot of traffic is going South to Trieste, [[Slovenia]]. Definitely not a good spot to Vienna or Budapest.
―Anonymous, May 2011