Superior: WRE3042 Outdoor Fireplace

A real wood-burning fireplace built to live outside.

Quick Facts

• Fuel: Wood.

Who It’s For

An outdoor room isn’t finished without a fire, and a fire pit doesn’t give you a hearth to gather around. You need a wood fireplace built for the weather. The Superior WRE3042 is for the patio or outdoor kitchen that wants a 42-inch wood-burning fireplace.

What Makes It Special

Choose a radiant smooth-faced or circulating rolled-louver model, with a firebox insulated for colder climates and white stacked refractory panels.

It is built with stainless steel components, a heavy-duty stainless log grate, and stainless screens that retract into hidden pockets. It has a heavy-duty log grate and an adjustable outside air damper; a fan kit fits the circulating model. Superior backs it with a 20-year limited warranty.

Possible Downsides

• It is a wood fire. You haul and store wood, clean ash, and sweep the chimney.
• Glass doors are sold separately. Superior offers bi-fold glass doors as an option.

If you want a real wood fire outside, the Superior WRE3042 is the right decision. The patio becomes the place the evening ends.

Choose the refractory or brick pattern and add glass doors, outside air kits, or gas logs.