Today we’re reviewing an RV gadget we’ve wanted for a while, a folding travel wagon from Lippert. There are lots of companies making folding wagons and Lippert is getting into all sorts of accessories for we RVers. We already have talked about our Lippert Smart Arm replacement awning but this is an RV accessory that fits into the category of must have. 

While we were in Quartzsite we saw a lot of people with a variety of folding wagons. A few were toting the cool stuff they bought a lot more had their dogs in the wagons and were taking them for a pull. I asked to see a number of these up close and found that that quality of them varies. A lot. 

Vowing to get one of these I came home and browsed the Lippert store. Yes, the same folks who likely made the chassis on your travel trailer and who bought Furrion also have a whole bunch of RV accessories. The reason I waited is I wanted to see how well the Lippert product compared to what I saw in Quartzsite. 

Now that I’m back home I went to my Santa Claus, er, UPS store and picked up the folding wagon I got from Lippert. 

First of all, there’s no assembly required. The wagon comes already packaged and folded in the box and I just had to get my wife to hold one end while I pulled our latest gadget out of the other. 

While I, like so many other kids, had the American Flyer wagon as a young lad these newer wagons are so much more convenient in so many ways. As RVers we always want to minimize the amount of space we need for anything in the baggage compartments and thus these wagons fold up small enough that I think ours is going to have permanent residence in the back seat of our pickup truck. 

Unfolding the wagon was a cinch - the wagon actually has sort of a bag that it resides in when folded and there’s a handle at the top so you can carry it around in it’s folded state. 

No Tom Foolery here, you just take off the cover and unfold the wagon. Unlike one of those tents that claims to be easy, this actually is and no fingers will get pinched in the process. 

Once unfolded the wagon is rated to hold 150 pounds. The wheels are four very large caster-style wheels with the rear wheels being fixed and the front able to turn. There’s a handle that snaps up against the wagon and also extends so hauling this around is easy. 

Overall the materials and build were really good as I expected. I’ve gotten things before from the Lippert store including a whole new awning for our travel trailer after a tree jumped out at me while I was driving. I have yet to be disappointed in the quality of anything I’ve gotten from the Lippert store and this wagon was no exception. 

Build quality

In fact the material was better than in a lot of the wagons I asked to see at Quartzsite for comparison. 

Lots of times you get something out of a box or bag and then attempt to fold it back into where it came from and that’s when the flaw shows up but this wagon just very easily folded back up and I was able to get the bag around it and snap it shut. Easy. 

Incidentally I had written that I had an American Flyer wagon as a kid and the one thing that wagon had that this doesn’t is that you could take the pull handle, fold it backwards and ride that American Flyer down a hill. 

In fact this was almost my demise as I was doing just that at a ridiculous rate of speed when, halfway down the hill, I realized that I had no brakes and I was heading for a major road in my town that featured not only cars but the city buses as well. Who knows how fast I was going but my choice was to use a wall on the hill that rose out of the sidewalk as my way of stopping. 

That was my first trip to the ER but certainly not my last as I was one of those kids who had to try any stupid thing that came to mind. So if the lesson is that you learn from your mistakes, I must be a pretty smart guy. 

I guess I feel pretty smart now in that I waited and got something from a source that has already proven to have good stuff. While I don’t have a dog to tote around in the wagon any longer I did eye our cat as a potential rider but thought I would be better using this for toting around our nifty new chairs and other things from the campground to wherever we choose to use them.