Coyote Drive-In

Coyote Drive-In was founded in 2011 by four partners who wanted a simple place to hang out with friends and family under the stars, according to its Cinema Treasures history. Two of them came from show business. Brady Wood had been creating entertainment concepts since college, including the Green Room, Trees, the Gypsy Tea Room and Jeroboam. Glenn Solomon grew up in exhibition: his family's Gulf States Theaters had owned more than 50 drive-ins and many indoor theaters.

The partners' first drive-in opened in Fort Worth in May 2013, on land leased from the Tarrant Regional Water District in a neighborhood planned by the Trinity River Vision Authority. It opened with three screens, later four, and parking ramps for 1,000 cars, and it ran a double feature on every screen seven nights a week, with a full-menu concession stand and a pavilion with outdoor seating. When Texas Co-op Power surveyed the state's surviving drive-ins in June 2019, it held up the Coyote as one that added a modern twist to the form, serving beer and wine at its canteen, often with live music before the show, and offering craft beer and a playground at the pavilion. By its last years the screens used laser projection.

The company tried a second location. Cinema Treasures reports that a Coyote Drive-In opened in Leeds, Alabama, on May 5, 2016, closed after the 2018 season, and later reopened under a new name, the Grand River Drive-In.

On August 17, 2026, the Fort Worth drive-in announced that it would close after Labor Day weekend, with the final night on September 7, 2026. Its website now thanks Fort Worth for its support over the last 14 years, says its screens are dark, and promises that the Coyote will howl again.