Oregon and Washington are down to a handful of drive-ins. California never got the memo.
Streaming was supposed to finish off the drive-in movie theater for good. Out here, it barely made a dent.
Oregon is down to four drive-ins left in the entire state. Washington has five. California didn’t just keep a few on life support — it kept a whole chain of them running, screens and all.
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Oregon: the 99W Drive-In in Newberg
The 99W Drive-In has been parking cars in the same Newberg field since 1953, and it still runs like a drive-in should. No app, no assigned spot — just $10 for adults, $5 for kids 6 to 11, and free entry under 5.
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Movies start at dusk and only run on weekends, so build your evening around sunset instead of a showtime. The sound comes through your car radio in FM stereo, which somehow still feels like a plot twist the first time you hear it.
You’re driving into Willamette Valley wine country to get there, so leave a little early. The vineyard rows along the way turn gold right around the time the movie’s about to start.
Washington: the Rodeo Drive-In in Bremerton
The Rodeo Drive-In opened in 1949 with a single screen and just kept expanding. It’s up to three screens and room for close to 1,000 cars now, making it the largest drive-in left in the Pacific Northwest.
It runs double features from March through September, so one ticket buys two movies. Adults pay $12, kids and seniors $7 — do the math on that against a single regular movie ticket and the drive-in wins easily.
Take the ferry across Puget Sound if your route allows it. Rolling off a boat straight into a double feature under the stars turns a movie night into an actual event.
California: West Wind Solano Drive-In in Concord
West Wind Solano in Concord is still charging $8 a ticket for adults, $1.25 for kids 5 to 11, and nothing at all for kids under 4. That’s less than most streaming subscriptions cost for the month.
West Wind isn’t one lonely holdout, either — it’s a real chain with multiple locations still running across California. The format never needed rescuing out here; it just kept going.
Pull in, tune the radio to the broadcast frequency, and argue with whoever’s riding shotgun about where to park for the best sightline. No assigned seating chart is going to settle that one for you.
Three states, three different reasons the drive-in never actually died, and the same simple move in all of them: park the car, skip the couch, and watch the sky go dark around the edges of the screen. Newberg, Bremerton, or Concord — which one’s closer to you?
Trip tips: grab a rental car to get out to whichever one’s closest, lock in a hotel if you’re turning it into a full night out, or skip both and just watch the movie from the back of a rented camper van.
Rules and fees change — always confirm current requirements before you go.
