Circle Drive In Movie Theater Dickson City, PA – Get Around To Going Here!

By popular request here is the Circle Drive-In Movie Theatre, located in Dickson City PA (just north of Scranton). Thanks to all of the Retro Roadmap Readers who wanted to hear about this place, it's a good excuse to bump this seasonal business to the top of the writing list, since drive in days are quickly drawing to a chilly close here up north.

This year marks the 61st consecutive season of operation for this majestic drive in carved into the hillside on the Carbondale Highway (also known as Route 6 / Business). From April - October you can see two movies for the price of one on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. While I was there on a Saturday it was still too light to go to a movie (and I wasn't going to go to the movies on my lonesome) so I took a quick peek around.

As you climb the hill to get to the theatre, you pass through the ticket booth which is almost like a colonial style "porte-cochere" where you can admire the view of the city below as you buy your tickets. This single screen drive in has room for 800 cars and operates with a radio signal to get the sound to you in your vehicle.

This room for cars is also put to good use every Sunday morning from March to November, where the Circle Drive-In is home to Northeastern Pennsylvania's largest flea market "flea fair", swap meet and farmer's market! Open from 7am-4pm admission to the fleafair is a bargain at 50 cents A CAR! The snack bar is open to serve snacks and also provide bathroom accommodations. Sounds like a great way to spend a Sunday morning, if you ask me!

I'm hoping the Circle Flea Fair is open when Retro Roadhusband and I head up to Scranton for the Roadbloggers Meetup in November. More about that coming soon, stay tuned!

Word to the wise! There are a number of wrong location markers if you look for the Circle Drive In using regular Google Maps. I have verified that my map below is accurate, so trust this one! I've tried to edit the ones on Google but they still seem to be wrong. (handy tip, you can always tell a Drive In Movie Theater by the fan shaped area for parking that you can see in the satellite view!)