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No other shovel matches its unique blend of ideal size, ergonomics, durability, and availability. An ideal combination of size, weight, ergonomics, and materials makes this the right shovel to clear off steps, sidewalks, patios, or decks. The durable Bully has a wider scoop than our pick but the lack of a curved shaft makes it a little more of a strain to shovel heavy loads. This tough metal shovel can knife through packed snow and scrape sidewalks and driveways clean. But it scratches delicate surfaces and catches on uneven ground. This small shovel slices through icy snow and can be disassembled for car storage. For clearing light snows off a flat surface, this pusher has a longer handle than the rest and an extremely durable scoop. This sleigh holds a lot of snow and slides around like a sled. Unlike others, it has a bent handle to reduce back strain. The metal edge on this tool is ideal for scraping and cutting into thick ice. The long handle helps with getting a low angle for scraping, and the padded end is easy on the hands. Good for pulling snow off a roof and preventing ice dams, this foot roof rake has a push-button telescoping handle that adjusts to a wide variety of lengths. The True Temper Inch Ergonomic Mountain Mover has a sturdy, lightweight aluminum shaft that gloved hands can grip anywhere. Its inch-wide plastic scoop is neither overly large and awkward nor too small and inefficient. The shovel has a curved shaft, an unusual design that makes moving snow easier, as it means you have to put less work into each swing. This secondary handle attaches to the shaft and improves ergonomics and lessens the risk of injury. With this additional handle, the effort to shovel is more balanced between your two hands, greatly reducing the strain on your back and lowering overall exertion. So no matter which shovel you end up getting, we recommend adding an EziMate. Overall, the Bully has a more-durable feel than our main pick, and the longer handle is ideal for taller people. But we still prefer the ergonomic benefits of the Ergonomic Mountain Mover. This shovel has the same curved handle as our main pick but pairs that handle with a metal scoop instead of a plastic one. With this design, the shovel can easily knife under compacted snow and scrape flat surfaces clear. The drawbacks? Its metal blade scratches wood, bluestone, and other soft patio and deck materials, and the leading edge is so stiff and sharp that it catches and abruptly stops on uneven ground areas such as gravel drives, brick walkways, or even blobs of asphalt patch. This model is also heavier than the poly version, which adds up over the course of a shoveling session. Made for backpacking and mountaineering, this model has a nice strong scoop and is easily disassembled for stowing underneath a car seat or in a corner of the trunk. We also have recommendations for a few supplementary tools that you may want to consider in addition to your shovel. The Ames Sidewalk Scraper is a great tool for smashing up stubborn bits of ice. The True Temper Telescoping Roof Rake is, as the name suggests, good for knocking snow off a roof, which goes a long way toward preventing ice damming. We also have a separate guide to snow blowers , which offer yet another way to remove snow from a driveway. Before being assigned this guide, I was no stranger to snow removal. I grew up at the end of a 2-mile dirt road in Vermont and have spent over 47 winters in New England, currently living in rural New Hampshire. I also spent 10 years doing construction work, and on many winter days I shoveled out my own house and then went to clear the job site. So I also have personal reasons to seek out the best snow shovel. To gain insights into the specifics of snow shovel design and ergonomics, I spoke with a number of experts. I also spoke with Joe Saffron, then director of marketing and product development at True Temper, a leading snow shovel manufacturer. Finally, I spent some time on the phone with representatives of Horgan Enterprises , a landscape and snow-removal company in the Boston area. Though we found a lot of articles about the dangers and ergonomics of shoveling, we saw few actual comparisons of shovels, so we had to rely heavily on our own testing. For this purpose, we ran a focus group where four people three men and one woman , all in their 30s and 40s, tested our plus shovel configurations. We also continue to get feedback from the large number of Wirecutter staffers who use the shovels. The raw weight of snow adds up quickly, so shoveling puts tremendous strain on your body. A study , published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine and covering 17 years of research, found that Americans suffer an estimate of 11, injuries and emergencies each year due to snow shoveling. We spent more than 75 hours researching and, for our original testing, over 40 total person-hours of snow shoveling. When it was all over, our team had handled 19 shovels, many of them with and without a supplemental aftermarket handle, for a total of more than 32 different shovel configurations. After all of our research into the ergonomics and mechanics of shoveling, we realized the best multipurpose shovel is a model with a plastic combo scoop and a curved shaft. The combo design means that the shovel can both push and scoop snow. Combos are the most versatile because they offer the benefits of the other styles without the drawbacks of either one. Because you can use them to scoop, toss, and push snow, they are, as Saffron told us, the standard snow tool in the US. Its scoop is 18 inches wide—a size we found to be in the sweet spot roughly 18 to 22 inches wide for shovels to be effective but not unwieldy. Shovels, in a technical sense, are a basic flat blade on a stick, the kind that you might remember a parent or grandparent using Charlie Brown used one too. Pushers, designed with blades often more than two feet wide, are not designed for scooping or tossing. According to Saffron, Canada is a massive market for pushers. These tools are also good for clearing smaller snowfalls from driveways. Although we strongly recommend a combo for primary snow removal, we tested four leading pushers and have our recommendation below. Beyond using combos, shovels, and pushers, many people repurpose other shovel styles for their snow removal. The most common tools in this category are grain shovels and coal shovels , which have huge scoops and short handles. Proponents of this style list durability and a massive scoop size among the advantages. We included two grain shovels in our testing, and of all the shovels we handled, they transferred the most strain to the back. As for materials, the repetitive nature of shoveling means you should go with the lightest scoop. These shovels have a light weight plus the built-in flexibility to withstand sharp impacts on uneven pavement. Though they add durability, they are also soft enough to work on decks and stone walkways without damaging the surface. Representatives of Horgan Enterprises , a landscaping and snow-removal company located in Boston, told us in an interview that the company steers clear of metal wear strips that can easily scratch wood decks, brick walkways, and bluestone patios. Most poly shovels that have no wear strip are sharp but easily dented and damaged our current runner-up pick, the Bully Tools Combination Snow Shovel , has no wear strip but is very durable. Because of the curve, the spot where your leading hand grips the shaft is higher off the ground than it is with a straight shovel. This allows you to keep your back straighter. The scoop of a bent-shaft shovel, in contrast, can swing like a pendulum at the bend, requiring the user to put in more effort to stabilize the shovel while tossing. The effect is especially pronounced when the scoop is loaded with heavy snow. The leading hand can only go as far as the bend. For even better ergonomics, we discovered multiple academic studies concluding that a secondary handle placed about two-thirds of the way down the shaft greatly reduces back strain by shifting the workload from the back to the arms. But the truth is that you really should use a designated tool, like this one. For the bulk of our testing, four New England residents used the shovels to clear a driveway, five long walkways, four front stoops, three decks, a long set of deck stairs 14 steps and one landing , a set of fieldstone steps, a set of cobblestone steps, a stone patio, and a brick patio. The shovelers varied in height and gender, consisting of a 6-foot male, a 5-foot-8 male, a 6-foot-5 male, and a 5-foot female. Testing occurred over the course of eight days and after six snowstorms that totaled about 42 inches of snow. During this time, a wide range of temperatures caused snow density to vary from light and fluffy to frozen and crunchy to melty and slushy. The shovel stands apart from its competitors with a unique combination of several features we found essential in a good snow shovel: a curved handle, a poly wear strip, and a flexible and durable scoop. All of our testers picked the Mountain Mover as the best, but when we added on the secondary handle, improving the ergonomics even more, our crew of shovel testers went bananas over it. The Ergonomic Mountain Mover was the only model we tested with a curved shaft made of light and durable aluminum. The arcing shape allows for a straighter back while shoveling and also gives full flexibility in hand positioning up and down the shaft. The design stabilizes the scooping motion, eliminating the pendulum effect you feel when using a shovel with a bent shaft. The D-grip at the back end of the Ergonomic Mountain Mover is nice and large, and no one in our testing panel had any problems fitting a hand wearing a chunky winter glove into the opening. We had no problem busting up ice and compacted snow on wooden deck steps with the shovel, and the steps came through the process unmarred. The wear strip is rounded, so it easily finds its way over uneven surfaces like brick walkways or fieldstone steps. This secondary handle attaches to the shovel shaft and allows you to stand straighter while shoveling. The EziMate clamps to the shovel shaft with two hex bolts. Thanks to the included hex wrench, which you can store directly on the handle, you can quickly loosen the bolts and slide the handle up or down the shaft to accommodate different-size people using the shovel. It also takes only a few minutes to switch the handle over to another tool, such as a rake or a spade shovel. Our previous pick, the Stout Backsaver, is much more tedious to adjust in this manner. In addition to reducing back strain, the EziMate BackEZ also makes shoveling a long flight of deck stairs much easier. On level ground, the EziMate really pays for itself: While moving snow, everyone on our testing panel, regardless of height, could feel the change in body mechanics and the reduced strain on their back. Shoveling snow is just plain easier with the added handle. We tested with a new model. The corners of the scoop are beginning to crack a little, but the shovel still works fine. Another Wirecutter staffer, who has used the True Temper over five winters since , likes its solid feel, ergonomic handle, and wide blade. Wirecutter editor Tim Heffernan bought six Ergonomic Mountain Movers for the maintenance crew of the unit co-op in Queens, NY, where he was board president. This added beefiness makes knifing the shovel under compacted snow or into a semi-frozen snowbank more difficult, and it struggled to dig in under icy snow that had melted and refrozen on a bluestone walkway. Shovels with metal wear strips can catch on any uneven surface, jarring your shoulders. Such models also damage non-pavement surfaces easily, and in our tests, some of the models without a strip were damaged after just a few hours of shoveling. Only after I saw this True Temper model tested alongside the metal-edged shovels did I realize that such a difference existed. Another downside to the shovel is that the leading edge of the scoop has a slight curve to it. On the models we tested, this was minor, but after multiple reader comments about it, we went to Home Depot and saw that on some units it was more pronounced. If you feel like this will be overly annoying to you, our runner-up pick, the Bully Tools Combination Snow Shovel has a straight leading edge but it lacks the curved handle. If our pick is sold out—which can happen in the middle of a snowy winter—we recommend the Bully Tools Combination Snow Shovel. This Bully is fully compatible with the BackEZ tool handle , which adds a considerable amount of ergonomic benefit. If you go with the straight-handled Bully, we strongly recommend also investing in the secondary handle to take some of the load off your back. The added length on the shaft does help with leverage and makes it easier to push snow across a driveway, but the EziMate really does wonders to relieve back strain. The Bully comes with a inch-wide scoop, so it is larger than our inch main pick and is starting to push the limits of what we would recommend for regular shoveling Bully makes tools with the professional user in mind. To demonstrate this, the company has a video of someone breaking a cinder block with the handle and another one of the scoop being run over by a truck. We felt this strength in our testing as well and were surprised how well the poly scoop held up, even after a few times shoveling off a set of cobblestone steps. We then spent time smashing it straight into an icy driveway, which did nothing to the scoop. Because it has a curved shaft, it comes with all of the ergonomic benefits of our main pick and can work with the BackEZ tool handle , plus it offers the added durability and sharp edge of a metal shovel. During our testing, this shovel earned high marks for its ability to chop into frozen and compacted snow. The scoop is metal, so the edge is much thinner and stronger than that of poly shovels. This shovel can be used to bust up small amounts of ice, but you should be careful. We did notice that when we banged the shovel straight down into ice, the rivets that held the scoop to the handle took on a lot of strain. Another user reported the ends of the scoop curling in with downward impact against ice. This shovel is not without its drawbacks. That may not sound like much, but with repetitive shoveling, such added weight quickly tires out your arms. Also, the weight is concentrated at the scoop end, so this tool feels unbalanced in comparison with the poly combo. Like the other metal-edged shovels we tested, the scoop will catch on any uneven ground—forget about using it on gravel driveways, stone patios, or brick walkways. Even on a paved driveway, we had occasional problems with the blade hitching on bits of asphalt or snagging on the slightly raised blobs of blacktop patch. This effect is not only annoying but also prone to giving the shoulders, neck, and back a good jolt. On top of that, the metal blade can leave scratches on more-delicate materials such as wood decks or bluestone patios. During our testing, we used another shovel with a metal wear strip to clear off a mahogany deck, and despite being extremely careful, we still managed to scratch the decking. Also, as the metal edge saw use, it became even more abrasive as it developed dents and burrs. The tool, which is popular with ski patrols and people clearing backcountry trails, has a solid metal scoop and a two-piece handle that clicks together to form a sturdy shovel. When disassembled, the three pieces can be tucked neatly under a car seat or in the back with the groceries. Because I keep my truck in a second, unplowed driveway, I often have to clear a quick path for the tires in order to get in and out. In our tests around town, shovels with poly scoops had much more trouble with this kind of rugged, dense snow. She got a surprise chance to put it to a very real world test when the Jeep she was keeping it in slipped off a soft shoulder and got stuck in a bank of loose snow. But a car shovel is an emergency tool, and we believe that the added durability is worth the additional cost. We should also mention poor ergonomics as a flaw on any shovel designed for a car—such models have to be small enough to fit in a trunk, so none of them are as comfortable to use as a big shovel like the True Temper Ergonomic Mountain Mover. Pushers are best for lower accumulations and lighter snows, and sleighs can handle heavier snowfall or greater amounts. When you use a pusher, the point is not to scoop the snow but to shove it along until you get to the side of the driveway. These tools look like push brooms, but with a curved snow-plow blade instead of a broom end. In our tests, the pushers maxed out their effectiveness at around four inches of depth or so. Because the edge of the pusher is in constant contact with the ground, most of these tools are difficult to use on uneven surfaces such as brick walkways and gravel driveways, but very effective on paved surfaces. The scoop has the same build quality as the Bully combo shovel, so the video of the truck driving over the scoop applies here too. This helps it navigate over the occasional uneven crack or blob of asphalt patch. Even though the Bully is a pusher and not a shovel, we still recommend using it in conjunction with a BackEZ tool handle in order to lift the pushed pile up and onto a snow bank. Just keep in mind that these larger scoops will start to impede your ability to lift the snow, which is something you may occasionally have to do depending on the height of your snowbanks. Sleighs are much larger than pushers and look like wheelbarrows without the wheels. With the handle tilted slightly back, a full sleigh can easily slide around and even up a snowbank. This design not only gives you total flexibility on where you can dump the snow but also puts little strain on your back. We tested two leading models and recommend the Garant Sleigh Shovel. The handle has a bend that raises the gripping area, so moving the sleigh around is easier than with the others. We used the True Temper sleigh to successfully clear a portion of a driveway that had about 20 inches of snow on it. The first few scoopfuls were tricky, but once we created a path to the spot where we were dumping the snow, the task got much easier. Had we used a shovel for the job, we would have spent an exhausting day walking back and forth across the driveway carrying heavy scoops of snow. The sleigh also works as a pusher, but if you get only small accumulations of the white stuff, the lighter, easier-to-handle SnowPlow pusher is a better option. As durable as they are, snow shovels are not designed to break up ice. Even the metal ones will bend and curl with repeated chops into a frozen slab. For true ice smashing power, the Ames Sidewalk Scraper has served us well in personal use for several years. And some ongoing testing of our other shovel picks reminded us what a handy complement it can be to a shovel, especially one with a flexible poly blade. This long-handled Sidewalk Scraper looks like a straightened out garden hoe, with a stiff blade that can knife under ice, busting it loose. The 7-inch-wide blade comes to a thin, durable edge, and the end of the handle is padded, which offers some shock absorption. A roof rake allows you to knock snow off a roof, particularly at the eaves. By doing this you greatly reduce the chances of getting an ice dam, which can be catastrophic to the well-being of a house. Ice dams form when heat coming through the roof melts snow, which then runs down to the eave and freezes. The frozen mass gets bigger and bigger until it creates a dam that traps any new water coming down the roof. Once this happens, the water has nowhere to go but under the shingles and into the walls of the house. There, it will wreak havoc on your insulation, wall board, and framing, possibly causing rot and mold. A good roofer will properly waterproof the eaves of a house to prevent such infiltration, but it can be a real problem in older homes. Unlike most other roof rakes, the True Temper model is a single unit with a three-part telescoping handle. The pieces slide freely with the press of a release button, and they can click into place at a variety of lengths. Traditionally, roof rakes consist of three full-size, non-telescoping handles that can click together only end to end, making the tool awkward to use. When we tested the True Temper roof rake, we found that the push-button system made for quick and easy length adjustments to the handle. This feature was a big help as we were coaxing a pile of snow down a roofline. We also like that there is a hole at the base of the handle, so it can hang in the garage when not in use. Our shovelers appreciated how it allowed for a straighter back, but the bent shaft limited hand positioning. Without a secondary handle, straight-shaft shovels are tough on the back. With the shorter models, the tallest testers had to bend over to at least 90 degrees at the waist just to load a scoop. With an auxiliary handle attached, they became much better but still not as good as the Ergonomic Mountain Mover. The Union Tools Poly Snow Scoop at the time of testing, it was under the True Temper brand —received particular scorn from our testers. The large scoop and short handle quickly added up to brutal back strain. The Poly Pro Titan has a straight shaft and a secondary handle built into the back end of the scoop. It also has a narrow inch scoop. It's not a tool that we want to rely on in an emergency. The scoop is made out of a thinner metal, and was easily gouged. It also comes to a point, which made scraping compacted snow off pavement tougher. JM Enterprises inch SnowPlow , our previous pick for snow pusher, is a durable tool with a thick poly scoop. The leading edge is blunt so it has difficulty getting under compacted snow, when compared with the Bully Snow Pusher. The two had the same ice busting capability, so we feel the Bully is the better pusher. Though we were trying to scrape up compacted snow, the Poly Pusher blade flexed so much that we thought it might break. It also produced so-so scraping results. Daniel S. Watson, Brenda J. Shields, Gary A. Joe Saffron, director of marketing and product development at True Temper , interview. Horgan Enterprises , interview. Degani, S. Asfour, S. Waly, J. Doug Mahoney is a senior staff writer at Wirecutter covering home improvement. He spent 10 years in high-end construction as a carpenter, foreman, and supervisor. He lives in a very demanding year-old farmhouse and spent four years gutting and rebuilding his previous home. He also raises sheep and has a dairy cow that he milks every morning. Everything we recommend. Top pick. Also great. Bully Tools Snow Pusher The best snow pusher. Buying Options Buy from Home Depot. Garant Sleigh Shovel The best snow sleigh. Ames Sidewalk Scraper The best ice smasher. Why you should trust me. Who should get this. Anyone who spends any time at all removing snow needs a good shovel. How we picked and tested. Our pick: Flaws but not dealbreakers. Also great: Flaws but not dealbreakers. Car shovel: Flaws but not dealbreakers. Best tool for ice: Ames Sidewalk Scraper. The competition. Jump back. Joe Saffron, director of marketing and product development at True Temper , interview Horgan Enterprises , interview A. Meet your guide. Doug Mahoney. Further reading.