Highlander Drive-In

MichaelKilgore on April 10, 2026 at 10:26 am

Based on Google Maps' city borders, the Hi-Lander wasn’t very close to Sacramento, over four miles away from the city’s nearest corner.

Maps says that the site is across Antelope Road from North Highlands, an unincorporated, census-designated area that was the source of the drive-in’s name and which was contemporaneously used as its location. But Maps says old Hi-Lander site is currently in Antelope, yet another census-designated area.

Anyway, after a big run-in with Sacramento County officials over noise complaints and X-rated movies, the Hi-Lander “shut down in September” 1975, according to its lawyer’s remarks a couple of months later. He assured the district attorney “that it would be used as a storage area instead of a theater.”

rivest266 on May 4, 2019 at 12:36 pm

This opened on October 13th, 1961 as the Hi-Lander Drive-In. Grand opening ad posted.