Raststätte Ohligser Heide West
Having wasted a whole day in the Ruhrpot I ended up taking the bus to Ohligers Heide and got a ride to Frankfurt in 10 minutes.rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 192 km ↘
―Chris9012, Fri 27 Jun 2025, 19:45
Was maybe there at bad times. 7-9PM had no luck so ended up camping in field nearby. Next morning took a couple hours but got a lift to Heidelberg after talking to people at restaurant rather than petrol station.
rating: 2/5, wait: 240 min, ride: 283 km ↘
―joshinghambummit, April 2025
Took me 15min of actively approaching drivers to find a ride on a sunny friday.
―Anonymous, July 2021
got a ride to Karlsruhe in 20 min after asking people at the gas station
―Gustavobretz, June 2016
got a ride to stuttgart. Asking the drivers took me 3 min to find a ride. Normally it took me 20 min when I was waiting at the exit with the thumb up
―Gustavobretz, June 2015
went just to köln. The guy left me close to the entrance/exit of the autobahn in the traffic lights and the i found a ride directly to frankfurt after 5 min. I was with another girl. We met 2 guys also doing hitchhiking there. They said they were waiting for 3 hours (i don't know if it was true)
―Gustavobretz, June 2014
Very good spot if you are going in direction of Frankfurt. We found two dutch boys on a parking who took us to petrol station close to Stuttgart.
―Paczix, October 2013
A girl took me and my friend after 10-15 min waiting on a sunny summer day up to karlsruhe
―Gustavobretz, October 2013
maybe i was unfortunate, mostly found people going on to the A1, but still found a ride on the A3 pretty fast.
―Anonymous, August 2012
what to say about a raststätte? always the perfect spot to hitchike
―Schworze, April 2012
I never waited longer than maybe half an hour. In my opinion, it's the best place to get south from Düsseldorf.
―GuterMensch, July 2011
Large motorway services. Should be good, although I ended up waiting a few hours early on a Monday morning. If you're travelling south from Düsseldorf, consider starting from here (take a train to Hilden, then take bus 741 or walk through the suburbia). For more info, see http://www.hitchwiki.org/Düsseldorf
rating: 4/5
―Anonymous