'''Nevada''' is a state of the [[United States of America]].
== Roads ==
*Shoulders
:Shoulders are usually built at the edge of towns, making it easy for people to pull over. In urban areas, the shoulders can be thinner than desired, but should still be enough for people to pull over for you.
*Pedestrian Rights
:Pedestrian are allowed on most major four lane highways. Interstate 80 also permits pedestrians when outside larger towns.
*Interchanges
:[[split-traffic interchange|Split-traffic interchanges]] are used rarely in the [[Reno]] and [[Las Vegas]] areas, but are not used anywhere else, making waiting times often better than urban areas in neighboring [[California.]]
==Law==
Nevada state laws states such:
484B.297 Walking along and upon highways; solicitation of ride, business or contribution from driver or occupant of vehicle prohibited in certain circumstances; intoxicated pedestrian prohibited within traveled portion of highway; applicability to riders of animals; penalty.
=== The Low Down ===The legality of hitchhiking in the state of Nevada is debatable--even if you are not standing in the road or highway. Walking on an interstate highway is legal if there are no sidewalks nearby, but only if the pedestrian is walking in a direction facing traffic. Because the law is open to interpretation by police, it is not recommended to hold your thumb out to cars you suspect to be police or state troopers. They may still arrest you or issue you a citation. Here are the laws themselves: === Nevada State Statute (soliciting for a ride) [http://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-484B.html#NRS484BSec297] ===''NRS 484B.297'' - 3. A person shall not stand in a highway to solicit a ride or any business from the driver or any occupant of a vehicle. A person shall not, without a permit issued pursuant to NRS 244.3555 or 268.423, solicit any contribution from the driver or any occupant of a vehicle.For clarification2. Pedestrians walking along highways where sidewalks are not provided shall walk on the left side of those highways facing the approaching traffic. ==== Nevada Definition of Highway [http://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-484A.html#NRS484ASec095]====''(Note: the word "Roadway" is not used in this context)''<br>''NRS 484A.095'' - “Highway” defined. “Highway” means the ''entire width between the boundary lines of every way dedicated to a public authority'' when any part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic, whether or not the public authority is maintaining the way.(Added to NRS by 1969, 1478; A 1981, 1690)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.065) The definition of highway means the law can be interpreted by a cop to mean that if you are soliciting a ride within the fence (boundary) lines of any highway, even 10 feet off the side of the road, you are breaking the law. [[User:Thewindandrain]] knew a couple that received a citation for hitchhiking when they were on the State Law allows dirt off the side of highway 93 near Wells, Nevada. === Las Vegas City Ordinance (soliciting for a cityride) [http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientId=14787&stateId=28&stateName=Nevada] ==='s interpretation'11.30.110''- Solicitation from roadway.No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment, or business from the occupant of any vehicle.(1949 code Ch. For North 36 § 96(c): prior code § 10-16-9(A)) ==== Las Vegasdefinition of Roadway [http://library.municode.com/HTML/14787/level3/TIT13STSIPUPL_CH13.24NERA_ARTIGE.html#TIT13STSIPUPL_CH13.24NERA_ARTIGE_13.24.010DE]====''13.24.010'' - "Roadway" means that portion of a street improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. == Experiences == Summer 2018, hitched just west of reno by the Boomtown trap, got picked up within 2 hours by a cool dude in an RV. Was heading through to montana, which was out of my planned route east, but I rode all the law is suchway to Darby MT. Personal experience:I had had a tough time getting a ride out of the Las Vegas area, strangely, someone driving a delivery truck going to Saint George, Utah stopped me when I was next to a "Do not pick up hitchhikers...prison area" sign and asked me where I was headed. I got a ride. Use your head out there, trust your instincts, pray (it CAN'T hurt) and give it a go!
For the purposes ''Hitched through Nevada a couple times. [[Las Vegas]] wasn't too difficult to get out of NRS chapter 484, a “highway” but I imagine I just got lucky that time. I-80 is defined as “the entire width between the boundary lines of every way dedicated to a public authority when any part of breeze. Never had trouble with the way is open to the use police, but I have heard of the public people being ticketed for purposes of vehicular traffichitchhiking there.'' [[User:Thewindandrain|Thewindandrain]] ([[User talk:Thewindandrain|talk]]) 01:11, whether or not the public authority is maintaining the way.” NRS 484.065. 26 May 2013 (CEST)
For clarification, the State Law allows for a city's interpretation. For North Las Vegas, the law is such:
:10I went though there a few years back and generally had no problems, Even got some food from a cop in Winnemucca.36Got arrested while walking through Las Vegas.090 - Pedestrians soliciting rides or business.:A.No person shall stand in All around i met some really nice people ranging from a roadway college student going to his moms house for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment, or business from the occupant of any vehicleweekend to an old hippie going to L. [http://library.municode.com/showDocument.aspx?clientID=16023&docID=0#hit1#TIT10VETR_CH10.36PE_10.36A.090PESORIBU]
:10''I waited 2 hours in Sparks, almost one day in Fernley, so in Winnemucca I just crashed at drivers' lounge in late afternoon (sooo many truckers are going west, few east.04.290 - Roadway.:The term "roadway" means that portion but I got a free shower from one of the former) and rather waited till morning, in 2 hours I got a ride to Denver. So I suggest to plan plenty of time for crossing Nevada, you may get lucky but maybe not. In Winnemucca a street or highway improvedcop stopped by and told me it's illegal to hitchhike in Nevada, designed '''however''' his interpretation was that I am not allowed to stick out my thumb or ordinarily used verbally ask for vehicular travela ride, exclusive of BUT it's fine to stand by the berm or road (I was on asphalt shoulderjust before interstate entrance) and even lean the destination sign on my backpack! No ticket, he just wrote down data from my passport. I still showed my thumb when there were no suspicious cars around, but eventually I got a ride when I didn't. '' [http[User://library.municode.com/showDocument.aspx?clientID=16023&docID=1#hit1#TIT10VETR_CH10.04DE_10.04.290ROYugoles|Yugoles]] ([[User talk:Yugoles|talk]]) 12:10, 11 July 2016 (CEST)
Putting I've stopped in Las Vegas on two separate occassions and two together, this means that soliciting both times I got stuck for a ride (hitchhiking) is legal as long as you full day. I would recommend skipping Las Vegas entirely if at all possible. I generally get the feeling people in Las Vegas are not standing "interested in a roadway" "exclusive of picking hitchhikers up. On the berm or shoulder." Thusother hand, you can legally stand on the shoulder or sidewalk in northern Nevada; it is a much less populated area but I had more luck getting rides out of a roadway really remote areas such as Elko and stick out your thumb. Since the interstate has different jurisdiction, you might not want to walk too far up the on rampWinnemucca.
==Cities==