Hi-Way Drive-In Theater

Gteat drive in offering 4 screens, with a nice selection of food a bit pricy… very clean facility… great place to take the family or date night

Yes I am willing to drive 40 minutes to get here and watch a movie (or two). I am a huge fan of the drive-​in and love this one that gives you the option of choosing from 4 different screens. You pick 1 screen with back to back– 2 different– movies! I have been coming here for 15 years. Hasn’t changed except to get more awesome. I usually bring my own snacks and drinks. The other day it was 2.50 for a small soda. Much better than $ 5 at Regal for a small! Bring your lawn chair and bug spray or sit in your car. Audio comes through the radio. Picture quality is excellent. A must do!!!

Me and my fiancé look forward to going to the drive in every Summer. Though I do wish they were open more during the week than later in the summer. I still love the place. $ 9.00 to see two movies and the food is reasonably price and taste“s good … Love the drive in :)

I Love going to the Hi_​way 4 screens, and the consession stand is clean as are the Restrooms. Olde Time Family Fun.

I am constantly amazed that so many don’t realize what a plethora of drive-​in theaters we have available to us. This is a great one. Located in Coxsackie, it is only 30 minutes from most places in Columbia County.
These guys have 4 screens, which means lots of selection. The lack of the old speakers on poles is disheartening, especially because if children are on blankets outside, they can’t easily hear the movie. But, 8 bucks for adults, cheaper for kids, for 2 movies is a steal.
Besides those low prices, you have less trouble with your neighbors in the theatre, as most of their noise is kept within their cars. The kids can watch what they want, and sleep when they are tired. The sound quality through the car stereo is great, and you can adjust the volume to your preference.
The most important part? The food is so much better. Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, really good french fries, and more at prices that are better than the big theater chains. The condiment station has ketchup, brown and yellow mustard, relish, onions, and salt and pepper shakers.
Oh, and the best snocone you will ever have. May I recommend the grape?

I’ve been going here for a few years now and love the place. For $ 8, you get two movies and you get to sit outside, under the stars. Great family atmosphere. The food is decent at the snack bar too so don’t be shy.
Bad news is that the greedy SOB’s in Hollywood are going to stop producing the movies on film, forcing many places to pay for the digital projectors or close down. Hi-​Way is currently trying to raise $ 150,000 to get the 4 projectors they need. Not sure how close they are or if they can do it at all but I would make sure you go soon if you never have and always wanted to.

Great experience! Can’t wait to go here again, I had never been to a drive in movie and I highly recommend the experience. What a slice of Americana!

I love the Hi-​Way Drive-​In. I have been bringing my children here for over 14 years every since I moved to the area. There are not many places where you can pay 9 dollars for an adult ticket and 5 dollars for a child and watch 2 movies. They have a really good selection of food too. My little guy loves the cheese fries. If your running low on funds you can always save money by bringing your own food and drinks. They have 4 different screens so you could go often and never see the same movie twice. They also have a set of swings by one of the screens that my little guy loves to play on while we wait for the movies to start.

Our hotel pool was closed for maintenance so we needed to find something else to do for the night since swimming was out of the question. We passed this drive-​in theater on our way to the hotel and decided hey, why not? $ 8 per person to see two movies… I refuse to argue with that! They have 4 screens but you can’t hop over to another screen for the second movie. You tune into an FM station to hear the movie. The picture quality is mediocre at best. We didn’t check out the snack bar since it’s so easy to bring your own food/​drinks. This was my first drive-​in movie experience and I will definitely be back again.

It’s a drive in, what can I say? The food was actually really good considering that it’s from a drive-​in theater.

«Roll up the windows, will ya?! The bugs are goin’ up my butt!»
When you tell the booth guy which of the 4 sets of movies you’d like to see, he’ll give you a ticket. At intermission, you have the excuse to check out the canteen to see if you have the winning ticket number. The winners list is hard to find, giving an obvious edge to the locals — but you’ve got ol’ JO here to tune you in: Look across from the counter, on the wall are 3 jumbo fortune cookie-​style strips of paper. If you win, you win something stupid like a snocone.
Inside canteen, it feels a lot like camp. The lights are not colored correctly, which makes the locals look even weirder. This was the first time I’ve peed in a trough since I was 10 years old. Less stage fright this time.
Tickets are 8 dollars, and you get to see 2 movies for the price of one.
Movie times start at 8:50 every night of the week, so that makes it a little bit difficult to stay for the 10:50 showing if you don’t live nearby.
It’s real cute though. I’d definitely go back.

I’m more partial to other drive-​ins in the area just because they are alot closer to me. But I think Hi-​Way has improved alot since the last time I was there. They don’t have any original speakers left, just the posts, but the sound quality is very good over the radio. More crisp than other drive-​ins. We saw Fright Night and Final Destination 5. I wouldn’t recommend seeing dark movies at the drive-​in because it can be hard to see on the screen. The set-​up is nice though. It is very easy to see the screen here even if a giant truck or SUV parks in the row in front of you. I didn’t get out of the car to check out the concession stand but the food was reasonably priced and the caramel popcorn is fresh made and to die for! The fact that they have 4 screens means there is bound to be something for everyone. I will continue to support them and I hope more people do as well so we can preserve this classic and dying art.

This is my favorite drive-​in movie theater. 2 movies for $ 7 or $ 8, you can’t beat that. They’re all recent releases too. The food is good, a little pricey but all movie food is. They have a few screens, so if you turn your head you can see another movie playing. They don’t allow you to drive from screen to screen.

This our first time at a drive-​in, so we really have no basis for comparison. Compared to what we would think of as a typical drive-​in, Hi-​Way went above and beyond. The sound quality was great, picture quality was good, and parking lanes are well organized. There are now 4 screens showing 4 different sets of movies (one more screen since Ryan last visited) and the concession selection is much more robust (well…as robust as movie theater selections go: popcorn, ice cream, shaved ice, hot dogs, cheese steak, pizza… etc.) Beyond all of that, the price is definitely right: $ 8 per person to see two movies? It’s a great deal!
Definitely looking forward to our next visit!

Located about 20 minutes away from Albany, this drive-​in is sort of in the middle of nowhere in Coxsackie (pronounced «COCKS-​ack-​ee»). The great thing about this drive-​in is that there are three screens, so that on a given night, there’s six movies playing. The weekend I went here, all the other drive-​ins in the area were showing the same two stupid movies. This place was showing those two, plus a few others! If it wasn’t for the Hi-​Way, we would’ve been out of luck for drive-​ins. They tell you not to switch screen between shows, and apparently they enforce this policy zealously. The lot is nicely done. Each row of cars has a bump going down it, and you can pull you car up onto it to point up a little to get a better view of the screen. And the radio reception is great. No dealing with static. Maybe it had something to do with the new car I was driving, but it was almost as good as being in a theater. But their snack bar is seriously lacking. I can’t remember if they sold anything besides candy and soda, but the atmosphere was so sort of seedy and the lighting is awful, it doesn’t look like a place you’d want take food from. But their choice of movies makes up for the lackluster snack area, since I usually bring food anyway. Plus, they give away free stuff every night. Just go to the snack area and check your ticket stubs against the ones posted and see if you won anything!