{"id":198862,"date":"2026-05-21T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198862\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:02:10","slug":"shankweilers-named-best-drive-in-theater-by-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198862\/","title":{"rendered":"Shankweiler&#8217;s named best drive-in theater by USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Valley drive-in theater was named the best in the country by USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>The publication nominated the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/04\/13\/usa-today-nominates-lehigh-valley-drive-in-theater-for-nations-best-shankweilers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> North Whitehall Township-based Shankweiler\u2019s last month as part of its<\/a> 10Best Readers\u2019 Choice Awards. Shankweiler\u2019s won first place, <a href=\"https:\/\/10best.usatoday.com\/awards\/shankweilers-drive-in-theatre-orefield-pennsylvania\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today announced Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis win is unexpected since we were up against some really amazing competition,\u201d co-owner Matthew McClanahan said in a news release. \u201cWe are so incredibly grateful to all of our customers, friends, and drive-in enthusiasts for their support. We will work very hard this season to live up to this award!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The drive-in, which opened in 1934, placed second last year and fifth in 2024. The drive-in, at 4540 Shankweiler Road, is the country\u2019s old operating drive-in theater.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/10best.usatoday.com\/awards\/mahoning-drive-in-theater-lehighton-pennsylvania\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mahoning Drive-in Theater<\/a> in nearby Lehighton came in fifth place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/02\/05\/shankweilers-put-out-a-call-for-help-clearing-snow-dozens-showed-up-after-the-drive-in-got-a-shoutout-from-iron-lung-director\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shankweiler\u2019s put out a call for help clearing snow. Dozens showed and the drive-in got a shoutout from \u2018Iron Lung\u2019 director<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lehigh Valley drive-in theater was named the best in the country by USA Today. The publication nominated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-198862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}