{"id":409420,"date":"2026-08-18T02:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409420\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:42:33","slug":"fort-worths-coyote-drive-in-theater-to-close-after-14-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409420\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth&#8217;s Coyote Drive-In theater to close after 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth drive-in theater will screen its final movie this fall, closing a 14-year run.<\/p>\n<p> Coyote Drive-In theater to close   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_4276.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Coyote Drive-In theater in Fort Worth will close after Labor Day Weekend. The venue&#8217;s final day of operation will be Monday, Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The venue says the closure comes as Fort Worth will begin construction of two new canals and a three-acre park where the drive-in theater currently stands.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Tarrant Regional Water District exercised its right to terminate the drive-in&#8217;s lease with construction beginning this fall.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The theater opened in 2012.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;When we opened Coyote Drive-In, we hoped to create more than just a place to watch movies; we wanted to create a place where families and friends could come together and make lasting memories,&#8221; said Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner of Coyote Drive-In Fort Worth. &#8220;We have been incredibly fortunate to be part of the Fort Worth community and the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area, and we are deeply grateful to the hundreds of thousands of guests who chose to spend their evenings with us over the years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from the Coyote Drive-In theater.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/entertainment\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth drive-in theater will screen its final movie this fall, closing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2777,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-409420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-entertainment","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}