Best Small Riding Lawn Mower 2024 Tacoma. For this year's list of the best lawn mowers and tractors you can buy right now, cr's expert testers cut 500,000 square feet of grass. Best small riding zero turn 1.

Lawn tractors have their cutting decks in the middle, rather than underneath the front, and tend to be pretty large. That said, the john deere s130 lawn tractor is my choice as the best riding lawn mower for small lawns.