This Heavy-Duty Clever Wheeled Camping Cooler Is Our Go-To

The RovR RollR 60 Cooler

Of the several items you simply must have for a camping trip, along with your tent, your sleeping gear, your lantern, and your grossly inflated stories of past adventures, a good camping cooler is essential. But a great camping cooler? That’s even better.

And the RovR Products RollR 60 Cooler is by all metrics a great camping cooler, and indeed the best camping cooler we have ever used. In fact, there’s only one reason that anyone might hesitate to call it the best cooler for camping, and that’s this: it’s big and heavy. Weighing in at nearly 50 pounds empty, when loaded with ice and food and drinks, this cooler is almost too cumbersome even for many generally able-bodied people to heft it up into or down out of the trunk or truck bed.

But here’s the beautiful thing about a RovR cooler: once you get it onto the ground, it’s easier to move than large camping coolers that weigh half as much. That’s because this is a camping cooler with wheels. Big wheels.

Big pneumatic (air-filled) wheels, to be precise, which have an aggressive tread and that easily roll over rocks and roots, dirt and gravel, soil and sand. The cooler is pulled along, by one or two campers, via a large, stable handle with rubber-coated grips or hitched behind a bike for easy gliding. It can even be outfitted with a collapsible bin that straps to the top of the cooler for toting your dry foods or for ferrying around any other gear you want to move. So heavy, yes, but once on its wheels, it’s a very portable camping cooler.

The exterior of the RollR 60 can be fitted with a cutting board/serving tray, a dual cup holder, and of course the large, stable cooler itself can be used as a seat, a table, a stepstool, or a footrest.

And all that is all good, but how does a RovR RollR perform its prime directive of being a cooler? Superbly well. There’s a reason for all that weight, it turns out, and it is an excellent chill factor, so to speak. Loaded up with enough ice and infrequently opened, a RollR can keep things cold for up to 10 days, making it one of the best coolers for ice retention. And it does that in a pair of optional compartments that you can create using an included insert, if desired, that creates a space for ice and a space for dry storage. The interior isn’t huge, but it has more than enough capacity to stock food and beverages for a family of four for three or four days, provided you’re OK with the Tetris of it all. And its interior is tall enough to accommodate wine bottles.

As you’d expect, there’s a removable drain to let out meltwater as needed, and as you might not expect and will hopefully never need to test, this thing is bear-proof when locked shut with a padlock: the The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee certified it as so. (Yep, that’s a thing…)