PCI Auction Group is one of the nation’s largest online restaurant, commercial and industrial equipment auction companies. Our top pick, Yeti’s Tundra Haul Hard Cooler, lives up to its hype and can keep your refreshments cold for days. Item prices do not include fees for pickup, shipping or delivery (if applicable) unless noted in the item description. Item prices may vary between online (for pickup, shipping or delivery) and in club.
To address each of these important factors, we’ve selected the best wheeled coolers in a variety of styles for a multitude of outdoor adventures. This Yeti cooler is extremely durable and easy to roll, and it keeps drinks and food cold for days. Whether you’re trekking into the wilderness for a week, relaxing by the pool over the weekend, or headed to a local park with the kids for an afternoon, take a load off your shoulders, and pull up with one of these wheeled wonders. FatBoy igloo cooler with wheels coolers uses an exclusive polyurethane insulation called Cryo-Foam and that, along with the freezer-grade gasket will keep your ice icy for nine days. The outside is rotomolded low-density polyethylene with t-handle latches and stainless steel corner locks (and bottle openers). The tires are rubber and nearly two inches thick and the lid has a molded twenty-seven inch scale for measuring your fish — or perhaps more likely when grilling, the diameter of your burger patty.
The Igloo MaxCold (teal) managed to outperform coolers that cost more, including some rotomolded models like the Bison Gen 2 (red) and the Rovr Rollr 60 (orange). Our tester appreciated the “excellent” turn radius and “secure seal” provided by the latches which kept the contents “really cold even after 24 hours,” with minimal melted ice or temperature change. If you are feeling tired, take a seat on the cooler or use it as a table at your tailgate if you’re running low on room.
That said, if you don’t need multi-day ice retention, even a cheaper hard-sided cooler should be around for many years as well. These coolers are simply made by inserting hot plastic into a defined mold, given time to cool, and then removed. The process is simpler igloo cooler with wheels and cheaper than rotomolding and allows for greater precision because of the molded shapes. But they’re made with multiple pieces—unlike the single, uninterrupted form with rotomolding—which can lead to a drop in durability and added susceptibility to cracking.
We can assure you that this large cooler with wheels is going to give you everything that you will ever need when it comes to cold drinks and food out in the wilderness. This cooler is also well-priced, another reason why Igloo coolers are so popular. Considering some coolers can cost three or four times what this one cost and that they are not that far ahead in terms of performance means that these represent a good deal.
As we prefaced above, if your cooler must-haves include easy mobility, large capacity, and maximum ice retention, it’s best to consider a rolling hard-sided model. From our picks above, the RovR Products RollR 45, Igloo Trailmate Journey, Pelican 80QT Elite, and Coleman Xtreme have rear wheels and tow handles, and YETI’s Tundra series also includes the wheel-equipped Haul. Downsides are even more weight (the RovR and Igloo weigh around 35 lbs.), bulk, and cost. Additionally, these wheeled beasts still struggle over rough terrain and may require carrying if you don’t have a defined path to follow. But for camping, days at the beach, or even tailgating, a rolling cooler can be a solid choice.
This lightweight construction and design mean that it is one of the more portable coolers on our list. The best part is that this portability does not sacrifice the durability that the cooler provides. It is leak-proof, sturdy, and has all-terrain wheels that have all been designed to withstand quite a bit of abuse. Astoundingly, this cooler claims to be able to keep its ice retention for up to 10-days which makes it the ideal choice for longer trips. Furthermore, because it is made of strong polyethylene for the actual cooler and has heavy-duty wheels, it will be perfect for even the roughest of terrains. Features such bottle openers, locking plates, drink holders, cutting board divider, and a basket is just the icing on the cake.
If you plan to use your new cooler for local picnic trips or backyard barbecues most often, the Rovr RollR 60 makes strolling down the sidewalk, traversing grass fields, and rolling across sand a breeze. The cooler’s coolest feature is easily the fact that it has pneumatic tires vs. plastic wheels, so you can pump ‘em up just as you would with a bike or car. This gives the cooler the capability to roll over the same types of terrain that are accessible to those vehicles.