The drinks are the reason most people come here. Slushes, limeades, lemonades, iced teas, hand-mixed sodas and fountain drinks, in Route 44 if you are serious about it.

Slushes

Every flavour on the board, plus cream slushes and slush floats. In the Coachella Valley in August, a Route 44 slush is less a treat than a survival tool.

Limeades and hand-mixed sodas

Cherry Limeade, Ocean Water, and sodas mixed by hand at the stall rather than poured from a gun.

Half price from 2 to 5 PM

Every drink and slush is half price during Happy Hour, 2 to 5 PM daily. More on Happy Hour.

Where

Two family-owned SONIC drive-ins. Bakersfield since 1990, Cathedral City since 2007. Same owner the whole time.