The 8 Best Snow Shovels of 2026

Two wheels change the arithmetic of shoveling. This pusher rolls a 36-inch galvanized steel blade ahead of you, steered by handles you can set to your own height, and the blade angle adjusts so snow peels off to whichever side you choose. There's reflective tape on the frame, which matters more than it sounds if you clear before daylight.

On a long, open driveway this is the tool that made the biggest difference of anything here. You never lift: the wheels carry the blade, your arms mostly steer, and a 36-inch pass covers ground fast enough that the job stops being a series of shovelfuls. We came to rely on the angle adjustment more than we expected, because setting the blade to one side lets you walk a straight line down the drive instead of pushing a growing pile in front of you.

It isn't a do-everything tool. Steps, a porch, and the tight strip between parked cars are still hand-shovel work, so this lives beside a scoop rather than replacing it. When the season ends, the handles lock upright and it stands against the garage wall instead of taking up floor space.

The EGO is the bigger of the two cordless shovels here in everything but clearing width. A 56V 2.5Ah battery and 210W charger come in the box, the brushless motor throws snow up to 25 feet, and EGO rates the included pack for a three-car driveway with six inches of snow on it.

What separates it from the Snow Joe is the chute. A 60-degree dial lets you aim the throw, down the lawn, over a hedge, off to the side of the path you just cleared, instead of sending it straight ahead into your next pass. If you've ever cleared a walkway twice because the first pass buried it again, that dial is the feature you're paying for.

For a driveway rather than a doorstep, this is the cordless that behaves like a tool instead of a toy. It has the width and the throw to work in lanes, and it folds on a hinged shaft down to something you can hang on a wall hook, which is more than the Snow Joe can say about storage. If your clearing is a front walk and a set of steps, though, the smaller machine does the same work for less.

Two things to know. It isn't self-propelled, so you walk it forward yourself; that's still a fraction of the effort of lifting the same snow, but it isn't a snow blower. And the direction dial sits low on the housing, so a change of direction means reaching down mid-pass, which gets old on a long drive.

If your drive is a long, straight run and most storms drop a few inches rather than a foot, this is the pusher we take out first. Seven pounds is the whole argument: a 36-inch blade that light means you can push with both arms for as long as the job takes, and the blade is wide enough that the driveway goes by in a handful of passes instead of a hundred shovelfuls.

The blade is polyethylene, so it glides on concrete and asphalt and won't scar a deck, while the steel handle gives you something solid to lean into. It's a pusher, not a scoop: there's no lifting, and trying to carry snow with it is a mistake. For one to four inches it's the quickest thing here. Past that, the pile building in front of the blade gets heavy enough that you'll want the steel pusher or a scoop instead.

The weak point is where the handle frame meets the blade. Under a heavy, wet load that joint is what takes the strain, so keep this one to snow it can push rather than ice it has to break. The handle runs 42.5 inches, shorter than the True Temper and the steel Garant, so tall users are better served by the longer tools in this group.

Forty-five inches is short for a snow shovel, and it's the first thing you notice here. The grip lands lower than the True Temper's 54-inch handle, so taller users end up leaning. What sits below the handle is why we kept this one in rotation: a 14-inch aluminum scoop with turned-up sides, 3.5 pounds, on a fiberglass D-grip that won't swell or splinter in wet weather.

This is the shovel for snow a plastic blade can't touch. The aluminum edge bites into the crust a plow leaves at the end of the drive and gets under refrozen slush, and the turned-up sides keep a load from sliding off on the way to the bank. In frozen conditions it's the one we want, and the difference shows up in the first pass, not the tenth.

It also doesn't go into the rafters in April. The same scoop moves mulch, wood chips, and leaves the rest of the year, which is more than most snow tools can claim. The fiberglass handle won't rot the way wood can, and the lifetime warranty covers the part that takes the abuse.

Eleven inches of clearing width, seven inches of depth, a two-blade auger, and a 24V 4.0Ah battery with a quick charger in the box: this is the smallest power tool here, and it's aimed at a walkway rather than a driveway. Set it down, walk it forward, and the snow goes out ahead of you up to 20 feet instead of onto your boots.

The throw is the limitation worth knowing about. It only throws forward, so you work a pattern, down one side and back up the other, rather than aiming the snow to the side the way the EGO's dial lets you. On a front walk, a path to the door, and a run of steps that's a small adjustment. On a wide apron it means more walking.

For anyone who shouldn't be lifting, a bad shoulder, a bad back, a heart that doesn't need the strain, this removes the part of shoveling that hurts. It's the cheaper of the two cordless shovels here, and for a walkway and a short drive it does most of what the EGO does. It isn't a snow blower, though, and the plow bank at the end of the drive is still a steel-pusher job.

Assembly is simple enough that it's ready before the first storm, and the two-year warranty covers a machine that sits in a cold garage half the year. What we noticed most is how little thought it takes: no cord to route, no fuel to mix, no lifting to plan around.

A 24-inch blade of single-piece steel, reinforced where it meets the handle, on a 52-inch shaft with a varnished hardwood D-grip. Nothing about this pusher is clever. It's a steel edge on a stick, and that's the point.

What it does that nothing else here does is scrape. The steel edge rides down the pavement and takes the packed, refrozen layer with it, the stuff a poly blade slides over and a plastic scoop can't get under. After a freeze-thaw day, this is the tool that gives you back the blacktop instead of leaving a crust that turns to ice overnight.

The hardwood handle is a detail we appreciated more than we expected. When the edge catches a slab joint or a stone, wood takes the jolt out of it in a way the steel-and-plastic tools here don't. It's a pusher, though, and you shouldn't lift with it; the blade is designed to ride the surface, and that's how it clears a sidewalk from one end to the other.

Where it earns its place is the layer under the snow and the ice that shows up in January. Pair it with a scoop for volume and you have the combination that handles a real winter: this one breaks the hard stuff loose, the scoop moves the piles. If your snow is light and your driveway long, the poly Yukon is the lighter, wider choice. This is the one for the hard stuff.

Two tools arrive in one box: a 28-inch SNOWPLOW pusher with a UHMW blade and a poly scoop shovel for the banks and corners, with two handles and the hardware to join them. Seven pounds for the pair, made in the USA.

The pusher is the one you'll reach for nine times out of ten. UHMW is the dense, slick polyethylene used wherever low friction matters, and it shows here: the blade slides along concrete and doesn't gouge a deck or hang up on a raised joint the way steel can. At 28 inches it sits between the wide Yukon and a hand scoop, which makes it manageable around parked cars and along a fence line.

The scoop is the half most people forget to buy. Banks at the end of the drive, the pile the pusher leaves, the steps, the space between the car and the garage door: a pusher can't pick any of that up. Having both hanging in the garage means you stop improvising with the wrong tool halfway through the job.

For a first winter in a house with a drive and a walk, this is the kit we point at, and the money works out. It costs about what a single premium pusher does here and covers both jobs at once. The one chore is putting it together before the first storm rather than during it, which is what a wrench and a few minutes are for.