Helping blur the line between premium and essential when it comes to campware and water bottles, YETI has cast a wide net over what exactly it can specialize in. We’ve seen everything from can crushers to shot glasses to the flagship coolers and Rambler series flasks. However, until today, the Texas-based brand has yet to make any live-fire grilling gear.
Breaking Into the Fire Game
Founded back in 2006 by brothers Roy and Ryan Seiders, YETI built its reputation on rotomolded coolers that could actually survive a fishing trip without falling apart. The Tundra series became legendary for keeping ice frozen for days, and that obsession with durability has carried through to everything they’ve touched since — from the Hopper soft coolers to their vacuum-insulated drinkware. After acquiring cast iron cookware brand Butter Pat a few years back and releasing their own skillets, a fire pit was the obvious next move. But this being YETI, they weren’t going to just phone it in with another smokeless drum.
Getting Better With Age
The Fire Pit itself is a 70-pound beast made from Corten weathering steel — the same material you see in commercial architecture and outdoor sculptures. It starts out as blue steel with some manufacturing marks, then develops a bronze-colored patina over time that actually strengthens the metal and acts as a natural barrier against corrosion. The 26-inch diameter burn area sits in a shallow pan design with a tripod base that can handle uneven ground, and the whole thing measures 31.3″ across — plenty of room for full-sized logs.
This isn’t a smokeless pit, and that’s intentional. While competitors have been racing toward secondary combustion systems that minimize smoke, YETI went the opposite direction with a traditional solid-bottom design. As a result, you get 360º of lateral heat that actually warms everyone sitting around it, plus full visibility and access to the fire, which is crucial when you’re cooking. The shallow pan design maximizes that heat spread, though you’ll definitely get more smoke than those fancy ventilated models on the market.
Two-Grate Cooking System
The Fire Pit Grill Kit (sold separately) transforms the pit into a proper live-fire cooking station. You get a large rectangular grate that spans the width of the pit for direct grilling, plus a smaller grate mounted on an adjustable post that swivels and moves up and down. That second grate is brilliant for temperature control. You simply raise it to rest and warm your food, lower it when you need more heat, or swing it to the side to tend the fire. Both grates are case-hardened carbon steel built to last literal decades with proper care.
The setup creates multiple cooking zones, which is exactly what you want when managing a wood fire, and not something you always get with outdoor wood- or charcoal-based grill setups.
Spec Sheet
Model: YETI Fire Pit & Fire Pit Grill Kit
Materials: Corten steel (pit), case-hardened carbon steel (grates)
Pit Dimensions: 31.3″ outer diameter, 27″ basin diameter, 12.5″ total height, 6.3″ basin depth
Grill Kit Dimensions: 30.3″ x 37.25″
Weight: 70lbs (pit), 14.8lbs (lid), 2.9lbs (fire iron)
Fuel Type: Wood or charcoal
Pricing & Availability
The YETI Fire Pit runs $1,000 and includes the all-weather lid and fire iron for stoking. The Fire Pit Grill Kit is another $500. Both are available now as a limited drop exclusively through YETI’s website and select retail locations — similar to how they handled the Can Crusher release earlier this year. Translation: if you want one, don’t sleep on it.
Recap
YETI Fire Pit & Grill
YETI just dropped its first-ever fire pit and grill setup—a 70-pound Corten steel beast that costs $1,000 (plus another $500 for the grill kit) and ditches the whole smokeless trend in favor of traditional campfire aesthetic with serious lateral heat.
