The Best Drive-in Theaters in the U.S.

Pets are welcome at this drive-in theater — and that includes horses. In fact, the Coyote Drive-In is free if you’re on a horse. The theater provides hitches so you can tie up your ride while you take in a movie or refreshments from the cantina.

This classic theater on Cape Cod also has miniature golf, a dairy bar with soft serve and hard ice cream, and a flea market during the day.

Watch the classic thriller “Jaws” from an inner tube on a lake. Luckily, drinks are served to calm your nerves.

This theater’s food menu goes far beyond candy and popcorn. It has an entire gluten-free menu, Atkins items and menu options such as chicken cheese steak and teriyaki chicken with edamame.

You can smell the ocean breezes from this spot right on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The theater has three screens, giving you more double-features to choose from.

Built in the owners’ back yard, this theater takes “if you build it, they will come” literally. It’s also one the few theaters that lets you not only buy tickets online but pay extra to reserve a parking spot.

One of the few motel-movie-drive-in combos left in the United States, this theater offers both a motel and an outdoor cinema. You can watch a movie from your car, or from your motel room.

This is the first and likely the only drive-in theater to be powered by wind turbines. It also takes other environmentally-friendly measures, including using LED lighting and recycled materials.

Take in a film or two with a beautiful Colorado backdrop. This theater has three screens and a call-ahead menu so you can order food in advance.

Part of a movie theatre chain that has been family-owned for more than 100 years, this classic theatre maintains its retro feel.

This theater boasts that it has the largest drive-in screen in the country, measuring 52 by 120 feet. That means films aren’t cropped or cut in their displays.

Located along the historic Route 66, this theater lets you bring in outside food and drinks but warns “if you do, you are contributing to the demise of drive-in theatres.”

One of the only nonprofit theatres in the country, this classic drive-in is run by Hull’s Angels, which is dedicated to preserving the theater.