The Best Beach and Surf Gear: Towels, Totes, Coolers, and More

03 Aug.,2022

 

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The best beach carts should move well across most types of sand, be sturdy enough to carry a full cooler and other beach supplies, and ideally fold up so they can fit in the trunk of your car or bed of a pickup. The MacSports All-Terrain Beach Wagon is that beach cart. The 3-inch plastic wheels are wide enough to displace and roll across most beaches and dirt trails. That said, the plastic wheels aren’t great in very loose sand, and they have poor traction across cement—think of a kid’s plastic bike skidding around on a sidewalk. A fair warning: The MacSports cart is heavy. The metal frame weighs about 22 pounds, and for some people it can be a little unwieldy (even when folded up). That said, the weight is what makes the cart so sturdy and able to carry an impressive amount across long distances, without straining yourself or the cart. “I haven’t tried a product in a long time that I was so stoked on immediately,” said Carl Olsen, the recently retired surfboard shaper and owner of Two Crows Surfboards in Hawaii. “You can throw both kids in it and a beer cooler, and pretty much ignore the terrain, whereas with a normal wagon you have to watch the bumps and cracks and make sure to stay on the pavement.” So far, we’ve tested ours for only one season, but we expect it to last for plenty more.