KryoFridge is Hurricane's freezer trailer rental company, on call for restaurants, grocers, distribution docks, and event organizers across the Zion corridor. We deliver a trailer ready to run the same day you call, whether you need it behind a kitchen, at a harvest stand, or parked at a Sand Hollow event. Call us now or request a free quote and we will lock in your delivery window before your next cooler fails.
KryoFridge backs Hurricane with more than 30 years in the event and equipment rental business, and we run one of the largest dual purpose trailer fleets in the West. We are a direct owner operated company, never a reseller, so the trailer that shows up is ours and the crew on the phone works for us. Every trailer is cleaned and checked against its target temperature before it ever leaves our yard, so it lands cold and ready and you are not the one pre-cooling it on your own time. National brands including McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, and Dutch Bros Coffee already call on our Utah freezer trailer rental network when a walk-in goes down, and Hurricane businesses get the same same-day dispatch. Call now or request a free quote for Hurricane and we will schedule a trailer that fits your site.
There is no broker between you and the trailer. We are a direct owner operated company, so the unit that shows up and the crew that answers the phone both work for us, not a third party.
The same trailer runs as a cooler or a freezer off one control dial, from about 50 degrees down to 10 below zero. A grocery dock and a harvest crew can use the exact same equipment. So can a restaurant walk-in, for a very different job.
We come out of a rental family with more than 30 years in the event and equipment industry, so this is not a side business we picked up recently. The experience shows up in how fast a job actually gets solved.
A walk-in failure during a Hurricane dinner rush does not wait for normal business hours, and neither do we. Emergency dispatch runs day and night across Utah, Nevada, and California.
Triple-digit afternoons, gravel lots, and orchard rows are normal working conditions for this fleet, not edge cases. The trailers are built to run through Hurricane's heat for weeks at a stretch.
We are licensed and insured and registered to work with government and institutional bookings, so a county fairgrounds event or a school district catering need goes through the same straightforward process as any other rental.
National brands do not take chances with refrigeration. They put our trailers behind their busiest locations because the equipment holds temperature and the company behind it answers the phone.
MaverikBackup freezer capacity behind adventure-stop locations during cooler resets, keeping frozen and cold cases full.
travel-stop account
Dutch BrosOverflow cold storage for dairy and blend stock behind high-volume drive-thru stands.
multi-site account
Panda ExpressTrailer cold storage during equipment service so frozen prep stock stayed within reach of the wok line.
bulk overflow
McDonald'sOverflow frozen holding behind high-volume locations during remodels and equipment swaps, so the menu never shortens.
national account
Chick-fil-AOn-site frozen holding during equipment changeouts, with staff pulling stock straight from the trailer between rushes.
zero thaw loss
Burger KingBackup freezer capacity during walk-in repairs, holding frozen inventory on site instead of trucking it away.
same-day swap"Our walk-in died on a Saturday night and I figured we were done for the weekend. They had a trailer running behind the building before we closed. Saved the whole weekend's inventory."
"We used a trailer during a rack swap at our store. It sat in the receiving lot for four days and nobody shopping ever knew we had a problem."
"Ran a UTV rally with a couple thousand people through the weekend. The trailer kept every drink and food vendor cold the entire time, no ice runs, no complaints."
Our flagship enclosed trailer runs anywhere from about 50 degrees down to 10 below zero on one control dial, and in Hurricane that means the same trailer can hold produce for a grocery dock in the morning and switch over to a hard freeze for a harvest crew that same afternoon.
The 16' Utility earned its flagship spot the hard way, on jobs where a few degrees of drift would have cost somebody their inventory. The box is 16 feet long and fully insulated, riding on a tandem axle. The interior is NSF approved. One digital set point covers everything from -10°F frozen storage to a 50°F produce cooler. There are two ways in: rear double doors for pallets, and the side utility door for everyday grab-and-go.
Because we own and service the entire fleet, the trailer on your lot was prepped in our yard, not scrambled together after your call. It lives on a dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit or a generator we supply, and it keeps its temperature whether the job runs a weekend or a full season.
| Spec | What you get |
|---|---|
| Temperature range | Roughly -10°F deep-freeze up to about 50°F fresh-cold |
| Mode | Dual-purpose: freezer or refrigerator on one precise digital set-point |
| Power | A dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit within about 100 feet, or a generator we supply |
| Food safety | NSF-approved for direct food contact, food-safe surfaces, proper drainage |
| Footprints | 6x8, 6x12, and 6x16, from a tight retail lot to distribution scale |
| Backing | Owned in-house, fully licensed and insured, with 24/7 emergency dispatch |
Each unit holds a precise digital set-point and runs on a dedicated 120V/20A circuit or a generator. The trailers are not wired for 208 to 240V building service, so we confirm your hookup before the truck rolls.
We dispatch to Hurricane, La Verkin, Toquerville, Washington City, and St. George out of the same fleet, and the same dispatch network that runs our Indio cold storage trailer rentals in California also covers Utah. A call here reaches a company built for a multi state footprint, not a single lot.
Neighborhoods and towns we cover include Hurricane, La Verkin, Toquerville, Virgin, Rockville, Springdale, Washington City, St. George, Ivins, Santa Clara, Leeds, New Harmony, Enterprise, Veyo, Central, Diamond Valley, Pine Valley, Dammeron Valley, Gunlock, Hurricane Valley, Sand Hollow area, Quail Creek area.
Each community around Hurricane has its own venues, its own events, and its own cold storage headaches. We work all of them.
La Verkin's restaurants and small grocers are a short drive north of Hurricane on SR-9. Its slower growth compared to Hurricane means fewer backup options nearby if a cooler fails, which is exactly where we step in.
Toquerville's cafes and food stands lean on Zion-bound traffic more than most towns this size. A tourism season surge with no cold storage backup is a real risk for a town this small.
Washington City has grown into a genuine retail and grocery hub west of Hurricane. New stores opening there need temporary cold storage before their own equipment is even running.
St. George carries the county's hospital and airport traffic. A rack failure or an event catering job there draws on the same fleet we keep staged for Hurricane.
Springdale, Rockville, and Virgin run almost entirely on Zion tourist traffic. Restaurants there see swings in daily volume that a fixed walk-in was never built to absorb.
The Walmart, Pepsi-Cola, Orgill, BlvdHome, and PrimeSource operations already anchored in Hurricane run on tight freight schedules. Seasonal overflow there needs a trailer on the lot, not a wait for new equipment.
One call sizes the trailer, sets the delivery window, and locks your quote for Hurricane. Call now, or send the quick quote request and we will call you.
Hurricane is a small city with a big footprint: a growing distribution base and a front-row seat on the road into Zion. Underneath both sits a farming history that never fully went away. Here is where we get called.

A failed walk-in on the road into Zion costs a restaurant its busiest hour of the day. We can have a trailer running behind the kitchen the same day you call.

Boating tournaments and OHV rally weekends push concession volume well past a normal day. A trailer on site keeps drinks and food cold through the whole event.

A refrigeration rack replacement does not have to mean pulling product off shelves. A trailer in the receiving lot holds inventory while the work gets done.

Home game concession stands feed hundreds of people with no walk-in in sight. We park a trailer at the field so the stand never runs out of cold product.

The distribution centers near Harrisburg Junction see seasonal freight spikes. Extra frozen and refrigerated capacity can be on the lot before the surge hits.
What ties these together is the clock. Nobody budgets a freezer trailer into next quarter. They reach for one the hour a compressor quits, or the evening before a party when the stack of rented ice chests suddenly looks laughably undersized. Since our units sit staged around Hurricane instead of a couple counties down the freeway, "can I get it today" is an ordinary ask here, not a stretch.
Add it up the way an owner in Hurricane has to. One restaurant walk-in routinely sits on a small fortune in proteins, dairy, and prepped product. Scale that to a grocery rack or a warehouse freezer bay and the exposure balloons. Now knock the power or the compressor out on a triple-digit afternoon, and that whole inventory is in jeopardy inside a few hours. Then stack on the sales you lose while the line sits dark and the wages you burn paying staff to triage what can still be saved.
Hold a pre-staged trailer up against that risk and it reads like cheap insurance, a fixed, predictable expense parked in front of a loss with no ceiling. That is exactly why the businesses that got stung once tape our number by the phone. There is never a second scramble, because the next time they dial before the product has a chance to warm. Owning every trailer ourselves means we can scale the answer to fit. A single compact box suits a corner cafe. A clustered setup covers a warehouse floor. Either turns around the same day.
Hurricane sits at almost the same elevation and desert exposure as St. George, which holds Utah's all-time heat record of 118 degrees, recorded near the Arizona border on July 4, 2007. St. George area data shows roughly 60 days a year over 100 degrees, and La Verkin, directly north of Hurricane, has its own record high of 114 degrees. A walk-in compressor that is marginal in March shows its weakness in July, cycling against triple-digit air for twelve hours a day for months at a stretch.
That heat lands on top of a corridor that is adding rooftops and commercial space faster than almost anywhere else in the country. Washington County grew 52.9 percent between 2010 and 2020, and St. George's own mayor has said the area is feeling real growing pains in infrastructure and water resources. More draw on the grid during the same months air conditioning and refrigeration both peak means less margin for error if a breaker trips on a 108 degree afternoon.
Monsoon season adds a second problem on top of the heat. Flooding across Washington County on October 11, 2025 hit Hurricane directly, along with La Verkin and areas near Washington City, when rain over burn scarred slopes sent debris flow through several drainages. A road closure from a flash flood can cut off a delivery truck's route into town just as easily as a heat wave can cook a compressor, and a trailer already staged on site solves both problems the same way.
Hurricane already hosts distribution operations for Walmart, Orgill, Pepsi-Cola, BlvdHome, and PrimeSource, a genuine freight base for a city of twenty thousand people. Pepsi-Cola alone means bottling and route-truck staging that leans on cold and frozen capacity every single day. When a dock loses a cooler or needs overflow space during a peak shipping week, we can have a trailer parked and running before the next truck arrives.
The grocery side of this market has been expanding fast. Sprouts Farmers Market opened its first southern Utah store in St. George in September 2025, stocked with produce, meat, seafood, deli, and frozen goods, and Smith's, Harmons, Lin's, Walmart, Costco, and Sam's Club all run full cold chains for the same shoppers who drive in from Hurricane. US Foods CHEF'STORE runs a dedicated foodservice supply operation nearby so restaurant kitchens across the corridor, including our own St. George freezer trailer rentals customers, can restock in bulk.
A single refrigeration rack failure at any of these stores puts the frozen and refrigerated sections at risk at the same time, because both usually run off the same circuit. A planned rack swap or a remodel is exactly the kind of scheduled job where a trailer in the receiving lot keeps the store selling through the work instead of pulling shelves bare for a week.
Produce is its own clock. Hurricane's own history started with peach and apricot orchards, and Washington County growers still ship stone fruit into these same grocery docks on a tight window. A truck that arrives ahead of schedule, or a shipment that has to wait for space, needs somewhere cold to sit that is not the back of the trailer it came in on.
Every trailer we send to Hurricane comes from the same fleet backing our nationwide cold storage trailer rental service, not a smaller regional stand-in. That means the unit on your lot is built to the same standard as the ones we run in busier metro markets, just delivered to a smaller town.
The enclosed design runs off a generator we supply or a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within about 100 feet, nothing more complicated than that. One control dial sets the whole unit anywhere from about 50 degrees down to 10 below zero, so the same trailer covers a produce cooler one week and a hard freeze the next.
We treat the trailer as a featured, purpose-built unit rather than a one-size-fits-all box. Sizing, power setup, and rental length all get matched to the actual job, whether that job is a restaurant walk-in or a grocery dock. The same goes for an event vendor area or a harvest crew working a Hurricane orchard row.
Sand Hollow State Park sits next to Hurricane and pulled in 1,357,405 visitors in 2025, built around a 1,322-acre reservoir and the Sand Mountain off-highway-vehicle area. A rally weekend or a big boating tournament there multiplies a normal day's concession and marina food volume many times over, and the park's own buildings were never sized for that kind of spike.
Quail Creek State Park, nine miles west of downtown Hurricane, drew 337,913 visitors in 2025 on top of that. Between the two reservoirs, Hurricane has two major event draws inside city limits, and both need vendors and marina stores that can hold cold product through a full desert afternoon.
Hurricane also runs its own annual mountain bike festival, tied to the trail network at Gooseberry Mesa and the Sand Hollow dunes, and competes in Utah's 4A Region 9 for high school sports alongside the St. George area schools. A full slate of home football and track meets feeds hundreds of people out of a concession stand that has no walk-in anywhere near the field.
State Route 9 begins at Harrisburg Junction on the edge of Hurricane and runs straight through town on its way to Zion National Park, which logged 4,984,525 visitors in 2025. A big share of that traffic passes through Hurricane before it ever reaches the park gate, and every restaurant and coffee stand on that stretch of road feels the surge on a summer Saturday.
Hurricane's own economy started with peach and apricot orchards planted as part of the 1896 Cotton Mission settlement, the same agricultural push that gave the whole corridor its old nickname, Utah's Dixie. Early Washington County settlers were even growing grapes for wine within a few years of arriving. That farming identity never fully disappeared, it just sits underneath a lot of new rooftops now.
Southern Utah's stone fruit ripens weeks ahead of orchards on the Wasatch Front, so a Hurricane grower is working a shorter, hotter harvest window than growers almost anywhere else in the state. Picked fruit sitting in a truck bed at a hundred degrees loses quality fast, and a lot of small operations do not have walk-in space anywhere near the field.
A farm stand or a u-pick operation faces the same problem at the point of sale. Fruit picked at sunrise and sold by early afternoon needs to stay cold in between, and a cooler full of ice will not hold the line through a full Hurricane summer day. A trailer parked at the stand solves that without anyone hauling product back and forth to town.
We size these rentals to the size of the harvest, not the other way around. A small family orchard and a larger commercial grower need different footprints, and because the trailer draws power from a generator or a simple dedicated outlet, it can sit in a dirt row or a gravel lot just as easily as it sits behind a store.
"Cold" is not one number. Different product stays safe inside different temperature windows, which is the entire reason a precise digital set-point matters, and in the middle of a heat wave in Hurricane, a load that slips out of its window is a load you write off. Use the chart below as the reference our customers lean on when they size a rental.
| Product | Target holding band | Trailer mode |
|---|---|---|
| Ice cream and frozen desserts | -10°F to 0°F | Deep freeze |
| Frozen proteins, seafood, prepared meals | 0°F or below | Freezer |
| Fresh meat and poultry (short hold) | 28°F to 32°F | Refrigerated |
| Dairy, deli, packaged produce | 34°F to 38°F | Refrigerated |
| Beverages, florals, catering trays | 38°F to 45°F | Refrigerated |
One figure outranks everything in that chart, and it is not listed there: 40°F. Food-safety guidance treats the band between 40°F and 140°F as the zone where bacteria thrive, and the clock on perishable product starts ticking the moment it crosses 40 on the way up. Roughly four cumulative hours above that line and most refrigerated inventory is no longer safe to serve. Picture that countdown running on a 100-degree afternoon in Hurricane with the walk-in dark, and the urgency of a quick trailer drop stops being abstract.
Tell us the single coldest item you are holding when you call, and we dial the trailer to that. One unit carries a straight freezer load with no fuss. But when your list mixes deep-freeze desserts with fresh-cold produce for the same remodel or event, we will usually point you toward a split setup or a second box so neither side of the load has to settle for the wrong temperature.
Powering one of our trailers is refreshingly simple, and there are precisely two ways to do it. Either you have a dedicated 120-volt, 20-amp circuit reachable within roughly 100 feet of the parking spot, or we bring a generator. What the units will not accept is standard 208 to 240V building service, so a quick question about your outlet before dispatch heads off any surprise on delivery day.
On placement, all the unit really asks for is a fairly flat patch with enough room for the delivery truck to maneuver it in and set it straight, plus either a power source in reach or space for a generator. We lock down the exact drop point before dispatch, and our drivers know the Hurricane layout cold, so the delivery is one clean trip instead of a guessing game on the property.
A grocery manager near Hurricane called after a refrigeration rack tripped mid-morning on an ordinary Tuesday. We had a trailer on the dock within hours, and the store kept its frozen and dairy sections stocked while the rack got repaired over the following two days.
An event organizer running a weekend OHV rally at Sand Hollow needed cold storage for drinks and food for a crowd several times the size of a normal park day. We parked a trailer at the vendor area Friday afternoon and it ran through the whole event without a single restock trip into town.
A small orchard grower needed somewhere to hold a morning's peach harvest before an afternoon buyer arrived. We set a trailer in the orchard row on a generator, and the fruit held its quality through a hundred and five degree afternoon instead of sitting in the sun in field bins.
Built for the road into Zion. Hurricane sits at the Harrisburg Junction interchange where SR-9 splits off from I-15 toward Zion, so we treat this town as a front door, not a stop along the way. Our crews already know the SR-9 corridor and the Harrisburg Junction distribution yards, so a delivery here does not start with directions.
On a bad day, booking should be the part that does not add stress. Four steps, an upfront number, and a single person who owns the whole thing.
Tell us whether it is freezer or fridge product, a ballpark volume, and your rough window. That is enough for us to call the right size.
We pair you with a unit, confirm whether you have a dedicated circuit or need a generator, and pin the exact drop point so the truck makes one trip.
We arrive on your schedule, about 45 minutes for a true emergency, set the trailer, energize it, and let it drive down to your number.
It holds the set-point for your entire term while our line stays live the whole way through. Wrap up, and we swing back for the pickup.
Hurricane falls under the Southwest Utah Public Health Department, the same district that covers St. George, La Verkin, Toquerville, and Washington City. Utah Administrative Code R392-102 and R392-105 set the actual number: cold food has to stay below 41 degrees Fahrenheit, and hot food has to stay at or above 135 degrees. That is not a guideline, it is the threshold an inspector checks.
Temporary food events add their own paperwork on top of that rule. A Temporary Food Service Permit has to be posted where the public can see it, no single event permit covers more than 14 days, and the health department needs 72 hours notice for an additional event. Everyone handling food needs a valid food handler permit, and seafood cannot be served at a temporary food operation at all.
Ice chests and cold tables are technically legal cold holding methods under the same rule, but neither one reliably holds 41 degrees through a full Hurricane afternoon in July. Mechanical refrigeration with a digital control is the method that actually holds the line, and it is the one an inspector can verify at a glance instead of guessing how much ice is left in a cooler.
One caveat we always state plainly: we supply the food-safe, temperature-holding hardware itself, but we are not a temperature-logging or alarm-monitoring service. If your program requires continuous written records, line that vendor up on your own.
Our signature 16 foot Utility series leads the fleet. It is the trailer we send on most jobs, and crews like it for the side utility access door. We build three footprints in all, so a single kitchen holding overflow stock has a fit and so does a distribution floor in a disaster. Every unit is dual purpose by design: one adjustable system swings between freezer and refrigerator on a digital set point. Each trailer runs on a dedicated circuit or on a generator.
| Trailer | Best for | Temp range |
|---|---|---|
| 6x16 Utility ⭐ | Our signature series: distribution, large events, disaster response, side utility door | Heavy-duty reefer |
| 6x12 | Grocers, caterers, mid-size events | Deep-freeze capable |
| 6x8 | Tight lots, small kitchens, short overflow | -10°F to 50°F |
Each unit holds a precise digital set-point and runs on a dedicated 120V/20A circuit or a generator.
Think eight or so pallet spots, and the unit to grab when square footage is the whole problem. It slips into the pinched service yards and cramped back-of-house corners that a larger box cannot even swing into. One cafe or small-market walk-in goes down, and this is almost always enough cold to cover it, plus the simplest unit to set in a small space.
Call it fourteen pallet spots, deep-freeze rated, and far and away the size people ask for most. It lands right in the middle: roomy enough for a multi-day catering job or a restaurant that needs true walk-in-equivalent room while the kitchen is torn up. Roomy enough that nobody is playing Tetris with shelves, yet still small enough to set in most commercial back lots without a site survey.
Roughly twenty pallet spots paired with a heavy-duty reefer plant engineered to keep deep-freeze locked in even when the ambient air is merciless. Reach for it when a warehouse bay drops, when a large festival needs an anchor, or when a relief operation is carrying its own cold chain.
Not sure which size fits? Most customers land on the 16 foot Utility, and we will tell you honestly if a smaller footprint covers your job. Tell us roughly what you are storing and for how long, and we will spec it for you.
The questions that surface once the basics are settled. Tap any topic to open it.
The pop-up walk-in cooler. Cheap to rent and easy to set up, but it chills, it does not freeze, and it draws every watt it needs from your building while depending on a calm ambient temperature around it. The second your building loses power, your cooler loses it too.
The refrigerated box truck. Designed to haul product on the interstate, not to sit in a lot and babysit it. Parked, it idles fuel all day, broadcasts compressor noise across a storefront or an event lawn, and pins down a tractor plus a driver you probably do not need.
The freezer trailer we deliver. Built from the ground up to be dropped on a pad and to defend a temperature for as long as the job runs. It freezes deep, carries NSF approval, locks, stays quiet near guests, and lives on nothing more than one dedicated circuit or a generator.
Even a rented box has to satisfy the county environmental health office that licenses and inspects every food facility. Show an inspector a unit that cannot document its temperature or was not built for food contact, and they have the authority to halt service immediately.
That is a bar each of our trailers clears: NSF-approved throughout, food-safe interior surfaces, proper drainage, and a digital controller that puts the set-point in plain view. We supply the food-safe, temperature-holding hardware itself, but we are not a temperature-logging or alarm-monitoring service.
For a typical kitchen or market, one box does the job. Distribution floors, big fairs, and full-scale disaster response routinely need more, and because the fleet is ours, we can cluster several units and bring them online in waves as the work expands. Match the cold capacity to the operation rather than make the operation squeeze itself into one box.
The clock is yours to set. Some jobs are a handful of days for an emergency or a single event. Others stretch across weeks or months for a remodel or a seasonal swell, and a few become standing contracts for businesses that want capacity parked on standby. Name your window and you will get a clean quote, no penalty for an honest "not sure yet."
Building permanent cold storage is a capital project in every sense: you hire a refrigeration contractor, schedule the electrical, pull a building permit, and wait weeks before a single pallet goes inside. A rental turns that equation on its head. You bring in precisely the cold you need, for precisely the stretch you need it, and the trailer is holding temperature that same week, frequently that same day, with the commitment ending the moment your need is over.
Three engineered elements carry the load. Thick insulated panels and tightly gasketed doors lock the sun outside and the cold inside. A self-contained reefer condensing system specified with surplus capacity keeps stripping heat out of the box even when the air outside is brutal. And a digital thermostat locks onto your chosen number and cycles the compressor to hold the line. Run those three together and a trailer baking on open asphalt behaves like one tucked in a cool warehouse. That is also why power is the first thing we ask about: the design delivers its safety margin only on steady, uninterrupted power.
"Peach season is short and brutal here. Having a cold trailer sitting right in the row instead of hauling fruit into town saved us a full day of driving each week."
"Our dock needed extra frozen space during a peak shipping stretch. Delivery was fast and the unit ran without a single hiccup for three weeks."
"Small town, small margins. When our cooler quit they got a trailer to us the same afternoon, which is more than I expected for a place our size."
"We run concessions for home football and track meets. The trailer they parked by the field held everything cold through two tournaments back to back."
"People do not think about where a farm stand keeps its cold stuff on a hundred degree day. Now we do not have to think about it either."
"Called in a panic after an overnight outage. They had a unit dispatched before I even finished my coffee. Kept every bit of frozen product from a Burger King location safe."
"Boating season crowds are unpredictable. Having extra cold storage on standby means we never have to turn away a busy Saturday because our own cooler ran out of room."
"We keep one of these on call for peak season now. Setup took under an hour and the temperature never wandered once."
"We feed tour groups along SR-9 during the busy season. A rented trailer let us hold two days of prepped food without renting a second kitchen."
Yes. The unit is built to hold a hard freeze regardless of outside heat, and Hurricane's summer conditions track St. George's, where the area sees roughly 60 days a year over 100 degrees. The trailer's own insulation and compressor do the work, not the shade or the weather.
Either one works. The trailer draws power from a generator we supply, or a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within about 100 feet of where it sits. There is no third option, which keeps setup simple whether you are behind a restaurant or out at a harvest field.
One trailer, one control dial, set anywhere from about 50 degrees down to 10 below zero. A restaurant or grocery dock that needs both cold and frozen space at once does not need two separate rentals, just one unit set to the temperature that job needs.
Every trailer gets washed down and cleaned between rentals, and interior surfaces are food safe and built for direct product contact. You are not the one scrubbing it down before you load it. That work happens before it ever reaches your lot.
A temporary food event still needs its own Temporary Food Service Permit from the Southwest Utah Public Health Department, posted where the public can see it, with no single event running more than 14 days. A trailer parked at an existing business location for backup cold storage typically does not need a separate event permit, but check with the property or the health department for anything open to the public.
The trailer locks like any enclosed unit, and we walk through securing it on delivery. Most customers on an open lot, whether that is a state park or a warehouse yard, keep it within sight of staff or a security camera as an extra layer, though the lock itself is the first line of protection.
Yes. We rent by the day, the week, or for a multi-month stretch, and a distribution center running a seasonal overflow or a restaurant waiting on a compressor repair both fall into that longer-term category. Terms are set around what the job actually needs, not a fixed weekend minimum.
The trailer itself holds the required 41 degree cold threshold and gives an inspector a digital reading to check at a glance, which is exactly what the rule is looking for. The permit and paperwork side of a temporary event is still the event host's job to file with the health department.
It depends on how much a kitchen normally stocks in a working week, not a guess. A quick call about your current walk-in's rough size lets us match a trailer footprint that will not leave you short on space or paying for room you do not use.
Yes, as long as the surface can support the trailer's weight without settling. Sand Hollow vendor areas, orchard rows, and gravel lots all work, and we will talk through site prep before delivery so there are no surprises.
Same day dispatch is standard for an emergency call across Utah, and Hurricane sits close enough to our regional coverage area that a walk-in failure during a dinner rush does not have to become a lost night.
Yes. Those towns sit inside the same service radius as Hurricane, and a call from any of them reaches the same dispatch and delivery process.
Here is the rest of the fleet, in case a different unit fits your job better than the flagship trailer above.
Sizing a rental trailer is a math problem, not a guess, and most kitchen managers get it wrong the first time by picking the biggest option out of caution. That usually means paying for space that sits empty. The better starting point is what your current walk-in actually holds on a normal busy week, not a slow Tuesday and not your best possible Saturday.
Start with shelving. Count the linear feet of shelf space your walk-in uses for cold storage today, separate from any dry storage or prep space that happens to share the room. A trailer's usable interior is almost entirely shelving and floor space, so this number translates directly.
A little site prep before delivery day saves real time once the trailer shows up. The first question is always power: will the unit run on a generator we bring, or will it plug into a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within about 100 feet of where it will sit. Knowing the answer before delivery day means the crew arrives with the right setup already planned.
Second is surface. Pavement is the easiest case, but gravel, packed dirt, and grass all work as long as the ground can support the trailer's weight without settling under it over time. If the surface has any slope or soft spots, mention it ahead of time so the crew can plan the exact placement.
Renting cold storage anywhere near the Zion corridor comes with a few questions that would not matter as much in a quieter market. The first is timing: Zion National Park logged 4,984,525 visitors in 2025, and a large share of that traffic runs straight through Hurricane on State Route 9 on the way to the park. Ask whether the company you are calling can actually deliver on short notice during peak tourist months, when demand is highest.
Second, ask about road access. SR-9 runs through a narrower canyon corridor as it approaches the park, and a delivery truck needs a realistic route and drop-off point, especially for a vendor booth or catering setup closer to the park entrance than to Hurricane itself.
Harvest timing in this part of Utah does not follow the same calendar as most of the state. Southern Utah's stone fruit, the same peaches and apricots that built Hurricane's original economy after the 1896 Cotton Mission settlement, ripens weeks ahead of orchards along the Wasatch Front, which pushes the harvest window straight into the hottest stretch of summer.
That overlap creates a narrow margin for error. Fruit picked at sunrise in a Hurricane orchard can lose real quality by early afternoon if it sits in field bins under direct sun, and the same heat that ripens the crop early is the heat that works against holding it once it is off the tree.
A few real factors move the cost of a cold storage rental up or down, and none of them are secret. The biggest one is duration. A single weekend rally at Sand Hollow is a different booking than a distribution center running overflow storage for a whole peak season, and rental length is the first variable that shapes any quote.
Trailer size is the second factor. A vendor booth at a Sand Hollow event needs a fraction of the space a restaurant walk-in replacement needs, and matching the size to the actual job avoids paying for capacity nobody uses.
Call us or request a free quote and we will confirm a delivery date, whether the job starts today or next month.