{"id":458765,"date":"2026-09-10T00:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458765\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T00:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:22:32","slug":"sacramento-drive-in-hosts-free-movie-night-with-kid-friendly-options-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458765\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento drive-in hosts free movie night with kid-friendly options. What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sacramento area’s last-standing drive-in movie theater is welcoming film lovers and families to a free movie night this week.<\/p>\n

West Wind Drive-In Sacramento 6<\/a>, 9616 Oates Drive in Rosemont, plans to host guests at its six-screen property for free this Thursday.<\/p>\n

The theater will open its gates at 6 p.m., with movies kicking off at 8 p.m., according to a social media post by the company. Entertainment and activities for younger guests are slated to run throughout the evening while guests wait for the showings to start.<\/p>\n

Here’s what West Wind Drive-In will be screening and what’s on the discounted concessions menu on the free movie night.<\/p>\n

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The Sacramento 6 West Wind Drive-In theater in Rosemont is hosting a free movie night on Thursday, with six films and various double-features on the schedule.<\/p>\n

What movies are screening at West Wind Drive-In for free?<\/p>\n

As part of the open movie night, the drive-in theater is playing six recently released flicks, spanning family-friendly kids’ movies to blockbuster sci-fi films.<\/p>\n

According to a social media announcement by the drive-in theater, moviegoers in Sacramento will be able to watch “Toy Story 5<\/a>,” “Moana<\/a>,” “Michael<\/a>,” “Project Hail Mary<\/a>,” “Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie”<\/a> and “The Mandalorian & Grogu<\/a>.” No tickets or advance reservations are required to attend.<\/p>\n

Numerous double-features will run throughout the evening, per the theater’s website. “Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie” has only one screening planned, while “Toy Story 5” will play three times. The other four films are scheduled to play twice.<\/p>\n

What else can West Wind Drive-In guests do at free movie night?<\/p>\n

While young moviegoers wait for their movie of choice to begin, they can have screen-less fun with bounce houses, music and other “family activities” at the theater.<\/p>\n

Though outside food is welcome at the drive-in theater, guests can also go to the lobby, where concessions stands have classic movie snacks for sale. On Thursday, nachos will cost $2 (normally $6.75).<\/p>\n

In addition to popcorn, candy and slushies, drive-in guests can purchase pizza, hot dogs, chicken wings and tenders, alcoholic beverages and more.<\/p>\n

“Bring the whole crew and join us for one of our biggest nights of the year!” West Wind Drive-In’s social media read.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

People pull in to watch movies at the West Wind Sacramento 6 Drive-In on March 19, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento area’s last-standing drive-in movie theater is welcoming film lovers and families to a free movie night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[180957,43108,121,873,123,122,180958],"class_list":["post-458765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-drive-in-movie-theater","tag-movie-night","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-area","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-west-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}