The 16 Best Coolers With Wheels

To many of us, Spring and Summer mean grilled burgers and dogs alongside freshly cracked beers, consumed in backyards, at campsites, and down by the lake.  

For doing any of that, you need the right cooler. And while everyone is impressed you can deadlift a fully-loaded seventy-five quart cooler, it doesn’t mean you have to. A cooler with wheels will make everything a bit easier as you stake out your small corner of the world and prepare to grill and imbibe your way to warm weather greatness.

Our list of the best coolers with wheels is here for you. We’ve dug up premium, ten-day, bear-proof rolling coolers, as well as a few ice chests that won’t sack your wallet. Some have ingenious accessories, some are no-frills cold boxes, one of them will even hook up to your bike so you can roll right up to the party. All 16 are coolers worth checking out before you head outside this summer to take things easy.  Oh yeah, and all 16 coolers come with wheels.

RTIC 52 QT Ultra-Light Wheeled Cooler

The RTIC 52 QT Ultra-Light Wheeled Cooler utilizes tough materials (like stainless steel and welded aluminum) and a sturdy design that makes it incredibly resilient to damage and the perfect seat to lounge on while camping or at the beach. However, it’s also incredibly lightweight—up to 30% lighter than rival models—and thanks to its all-terrain impact- and puncture-resistant wheels, is easy to take anywhere you go.

The 2.5-inch-thick closed cell insulation will keep your ice from melting for not just hours, but days, and guarantee everything stored inside stays nice and cold. Thanks to its no-sweat exterior, non-skid rubber feet, and tie-down slots, it’ll be right at home in the bed of your truck, the back of your SUV, or the deck of your boat. 

• Price: $249
• Capacity: 78 cans
• Key Features: Ultra-tough but lightweight. Built to withstand 1 ton of downward force.

Yeti Tundra Haul

Tundra is Yeti’s line of nigh-on-indestructible coolers. And finally, they’ve made one with wheels. The HaulRolling Cooler will fit fifty-five pounds of ice, or forty-five cans of beer (with a two-to-one ice-to-beer ratio) and has a welded aluminum arm that’s designed to be pulled behind you without raking your ankles every time you take a step. The rotomolded outer is filled with pressure-injected polyurethane to keep things icy while remaining uncrushable.

• Price: $425
• Capacity: 55 qt
• Key Features: Single-piece tire construction, welded aluminum handle, commercial-grade polyurethane insulation

Pelican Elite Wheeled Cooler

Let us ask a question regarding your summer plans: Are you expecting bears? If yes: this. If no: still this. The Elite comes from Pelican, a company that makes protective cases used by the military, emergency responders and the aerospace industry — so yes, it’ll keep your beer safe. And two inches of polyurethane insulation and a freezer-grade gasket means it’ll also keep that beer cold for ten days. And about those bears? This rolling cooler is certified bear-resistant by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee.

• Price: $450
• Capacity: 45 qt
• Key Features: Built-in trolley handle, built-in bottle opener, press and pull latches

Igloo Trailmate Rolling Cooler

Like Kleenex and Xerox, there was a time when you referred to that thing keeping your stuff cold as the “Igloo.” The wheeled collection from the brand synonymous with cooler is the Trailmate and it’s all about the extras — cup holders, a slide out tray table, a storage pocket, bottle openers, and both an internal stay-dry food basket and an internal lockable dry box for your phone, wallet and keys. Add that to the four day ice retention and hundred-plus can capacity and you see how the eponym came about.

• Price: $250
• Capacity: 70 qt (112 cans)
• Key Features: Four day ice retention, telescoping handle with butler tray

BrüTank 35-Quart Rolling Cooler

Why waste cooler space storing cans or bottles when you can just fill the BrüTank 35-Quart Rolling Cooler’s 1.8-gallon drink tank and serve your ice-cold beverages from the handy built-in tap straight into your cup? With just 35 quarts of storage space, it’s enough to pack food for a smaller family or group of friends, but also immensely more portable than the full-sized 55 quart model.

With features like 7+ day ice retention, a built-in bottle opener, and a foam seat top, it’s the perfect outdoor companion for your backyard BBQs and lakeside camping trips. 

• Price: $325
• Capacity: 36 standard 12oz cans with the tank installed, 48 without
• Key Features: 1.8 gallon drink tank lets you mix drinks at home and pour them straight into your cup when out and about.

Magellan Outdoors Pro Explore Icebox Hard Cooler

For weekend getaways and tailgating parties, you’ll want this Pro Explore Icebox Hard Cooler by Magellan Outdoors. Its 45-quart capacity offers space enough for anything and everything you might want to pack, and the construction (including V-seal and extra-thick insulation) ensures everything you bring will stay cold as long as possible. Thanks to the dual-opening lid, you’ll have no trouble getting at your contents without letting too much cold escape.

The anti-skid feet guarantee the cooler stays in place whether you’re sitting on it or packing/unpacking. Best of all, you never have to worry about packing a bottle opener—it’s got one built right into the frame!

Price: $200

• Capacity: 45 quarts
• Key Features: Internal divider can be removed and used as a cutting board. Ultra-reliable V-seal and thick insulation. Heavy-duty construction.

Coleman Xtreme Wheeled Cooler

Ever tried to take a load off atop an unsturdy cooler and ended up with a cracked lid, or worse, an iced butt? Coleman understands the tendency to consider the cooler the unofficial extra chair at the tailgating party, so they made their lid able to withstand two-hundred-fifty pounds of cookout enthusiast. Holding up to eighty-four cans and keeping them cold for up to five days, the Xtreme also has a telescoping handle that locks so you can push or pull your cooler to the heart of the action.

• Price: $65
• Capacity: 50 qt
• Key Feature: Built-in cupholders

RovR RollR Rolling Cooler

A lot of thought went into the design of RovR’s coolers. Far more than an insulated plastic box, the RollR coolers come in a forty-five, sixty or eighty-quart capacity and have a ton of features that seriously put the “cool” in cooler. The dry bin acts like a fridge keeping stuff dry and between 35º and 40º. A built-in Wagon Bin on top pops up to hold whatever else you’re bringing to the party and the six anchor points let you add accessories like the optional cutting board and dual cup holders. Plus with the BikR tow arm you can haul the wheeled cooler with your bike.

• Price: $349
• Capacity: 45 qt
• Key Features: Removable two compartment dry bin, high density foam insulation

Canyon Cooler Mule Rolling Cooler

In answer to some of the price premiums certain premium coolers were asking, Canyon Coolers decided to make premium coolers that ranked at the top of the class for ice retention and towards the bottom for price. Their wheeled rolling cooler offering is a thirty-quart ice chest built with more insulation than other coolers in its range. The bungee net up top helps you haul extra stuff on game day and Canyon also offers a no-hassle, lifetime warranty.

• Price: $290
• Capacity: 30 qt
• Key Features: Jungle cord bungee, integrated cup holders and bottle opener

Koolatron KargoWheeler Cooler With Wheels

You’re car camping, not exploring the Dry Tortugas. Chances are there’s an open 12V you can plug into. So if you want to rely on more than just ice and insulation to keep your beer and brats chilly, go for the Koolatron. This one has a thirty-three quart capacity and comes with two shelves for organization. The coolers draw less power than your car’s parking lights and there won’t be any need to stop at the gas station for ice before you head out.

• Price: $190+
• Capacity: 36 qt
• Key Features: Electric cooling (or heating) via 12V power cord

Kong Cruiser Cooler

Kong’s family of American-made coolers has been a big hit with backyard barbecuers for over 20 years now, but they’ve really outdone themselves with the Cruiser Cooler. It’s the first ever wheeled cooler from the company, and they attended to every detail. Fully packed it can hold a frost 40 beverages (with 30 pounds of ice to keep them chilled). And with its heavy duty insulation, tight locking lid, and perfectly integrated bottle opener, those brewskis will be cool and drinkable for up to a week.

• Price: $419
• Capacity: 50 qt
• Key Features: Up to one week of ice retention, optional divider

Igloo Marine Quantum 52 Wheeled Cooler

Why is this this one the best? It has the word quantum in the name. Quantum Leap, quantum entanglement, Nuka Cola Quantum — examples of awesomeness, all of them. Also Maxcold Quantum has things like a telescoping handle with gear notches at the top so you can hang bags and packs, an internal shelf ledge for better organization, integrated tie-down loops, plus cup holders on the lid and a five-day ice-retaining insulation — all while staying firmly on the economical end of the spectrum.

• Price: $85+
• Capacity: 52 qt
• Key Features: Cool Riser Technology, locking telescoping handle with gear hangers, two removable fishing rod holders

FatBoy Roto Molded Wheeled Cooler

There’s ice cold and there’s cryo cold. FatBoy 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.

• Price: $300+
• Capacity: 70 qt
• Key Features: An integrated scale on the lid for easily measuring fish, a freezer-grade rubber gasket, and 2 inches of polyurethane Cryo-Foam insulation provides ice retention above and beyond traditional coolers.

Igloo ECOCOOL Latitude 60 Qt Roller Cooler

How does one help the environment by drinking beer? With the ECOCOOL Latitude Roller Cooler, that’s how. This 60-quart container is built from recycled resin made from discarded plastic, while the insulation is a special foam that lowers emissions from CO2 and volatile organic compounds. And this cooler works too—it keeps your drinks cold for five days, comes with all-terrain wheels, and a telescoping handle for convenience. The lid sports four self-draining cup holders, and the triple-snap drain plug is effectively leak resistant.

• Price: $95
• Capacity: 60 qt
• Key Features: Made with resin from recycled plastics, Cool Riser Technology, molded-in side handles

Titan Deep Freeze 60 Can Rolling Cooler

One of the best and most stylish soft coolers out there, the Titan Deep Freeze Cooler boasts three days of ice retention. It achieves this, despite its lightweight construction, with its proprietary insulation technology, which features a radiant heat barrier and triple layer cold-blocking base. Other cool features include its easy-access lid, removable bottle opener, and expandability. Style-wise, the exterior (which is water-resistant and stain-resistant) comes in fun colors like a turquoise-esque Pine variation, a summer-appropriate Blue Lagoon version, and a very neon Citrus model. The Moss variation is a quieter, but still snazzy, outdoorsy hue for you understated gents out there.

• Price: $80+
• Capacity: 60 qt
• Key Features: Microban antimicrobial coating, integrated drink holders, detachable bottle opener

Lifetime Hard Sided Cooler With Wheels

With seven days of ice retention, the Lifetime Hard Sided Cooler is a step away from being a rolling mini-fridge. This makes it the best option for beach trips on the hottest summer days. It also gets bonus points for the mercy of not having to immediately unpack the cold stuff after a long day out. This cooler’s durable construction is bear resistant, but the handles are made of a comfortable braided rope and plastic grips. And if a bear does manage to magically break through, this guy comes with a five-year warranty.

• Price: $129+
• Capacity: 55 qt
• Key Features: Certified to withstand a bear for up to one hour, stainless steel bottle opener with padlock compatibility.

Roam Adventure Co. 46QT Rolling Rugged Cooler

If you’re the kind of guy who goes hard on his equipment and needs a cooler sturdy enough to handle the roughhousing and horseplay to be expected of a guys’ weekend or family camping trip, you’ll want the Roam Adventure Co. 46QT Rolling Rugged Cooler. It’s built from ultra-tough but wonderfully lightweight LDPE that’s capable of surviving storms, choppy waters, and careless handling alike.

The telescoping handle is made from aluminum that won’t bend or buckle if you accidentally drop it while hauling it along, and the rubberized wheels are tough enough to handle even the harshest terrain. The fact that it’s backed up by a limited lifetime warranty should tell you everything you need to know about just how sturdy this bad boy really is. 

• Price: $444 $267
• Capacity: 46 quarts
• Key Features: Deep design makes organization easy; can be used with a wire basket and custom-sized Roam ice packs for more efficient packing.

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