44 Best Father’s Day Gifts for Dads (2026)

What’s better than reading on a beach chair in the shade? Reading on a beach chair in the shade using Kobo Scale Color (8/10 WIRED Recommends)which is waterproof, has electronic color ink, and has a mode for pasting ideas using a pen. Compared to Kindles, this device feels more like a productivity tool, as it’s easy to bring up articles to read and organize ideas and lists.

By Car Dad

The Nokian Surpass AS01’s are some of the best reviewed tires on the road, earning praise from of cars the media as well as on message boards. I’ve only put about 100 miles on my set, but I’m already adding myself to the fan list. These tires are grippy, stable, and ride with supreme confidence. They also come with a 55,000 mile tread wear warranty, which is unusual for a high performance tire like this. Nokian is a Finnish tire manufacturer known for its winter boots. This design has the highest percentage of silica the brand has ever used, offering the benefits of a compound, which is excellent for stopping distance, longevity, and grip in wet conditions. (Disadvantages of heavy silica tire compound are faster wear in hot weather and higher cost). If your dad has been clamoring about needing new tires, take him to the Father’s Day cruise and bring a stack of four new tires—most shops will be happy to mount them if you leave with stickers.

Portable tire inflators and beginners to fly both are great things to have, and I have both. The AX65 from Noco is a highly capable combination of the two, and the best version of either that I’ve come across. The tire inflator is very fast—as fast as a gas station air compressor in my tests—and claims to take a tire from flat to 40 pounds per square inch (psi) in two minutes. It holds 2,150 amp-hours, enough to jumpstart a standard passenger car several times. It flew mine Dieselgate-era Jetta easily (I’ve had the device for a month and already had to fly my car because of its lack of an alarm when leaving a light-VW was donating its software engineering resources other projects at that time). It’ll also charge a phone or laptop via the 60-watt USB-C port, so it won’t just take up a lot of space on road trips until disasters strike.

To Father Yard

My childhood neighbor Don Elmerick had the most beautiful lawn I have ever seen. Elmerick, who lived across the street from my mother’s house for nearly 50 years before he passed away in 2019, spent every summer carefully tending to his green acre, getting tanned while cutting jeans without a shirt. His green was so beautiful that, as the story goes, patrons from the regular public golf course behind our house would come to admire it. Every father I know, myself included, would love to have a lawn like that. Unfortunately, I don’t have the 10 to 20 hours a week it takes to do the research and work required.

I won’t say that the Lawnbright program has my most common lawn looking like Firestone Country Club after six months of treatment, but it looks better than any lawn I’ve laid in my adult life. That’s thanks to this service, which uses data from your lawn to create a custom treatment plan and then sends out different treatment bottles at specific times. All you do is open the box, attach the bottle to the hose, and spray. I used the Green Machine formula in the fall and then the Weed Remover in the spring. If your dad is always talking about how someone else’s lawn looks, this is a gift for him.