Best Early REI Black Friday Deals on Outdoor Gear (2024)

REI famously shuns Black Friday, asking imaginable customers to alternatively get extracurricular and bask the satellite astir you. That's large advice, but of people Black Friday is besides 1 of the biggest retail spending days of the year, and REI is simply a for-profit co-op—what to do? Have your merchantability early, of course. The REI Co-op Winter Sale runs November 15 done November 25. Now is simply a large clip to prevention immoderate wealth connected tents, backpacks, sleeping pads, and moving shoes.

REI members get immoderate other savings during this wintertime sale, including 20 percent disconnected 1 full-priced point and an other 20 percent disconnected 1 REI Outlet point with coupon codification WINTER24 (and yes, you tin usage the discount connected the outlet point adjacent if it's already connected sale). Additionally REI is offering 20 percent disconnected 1 Re/Supply point with the coupon codification USED20. If you're not a subordinate you tin join REI today and get a $30 acquisition paper for joining.

Shopping for idiosyncratic else? REI has enactment unneurotic immoderate gift guides to assistance you out, and we besides person immoderate gift ideas for hikers, backpackers, and outdoorsy people.

Updated November 15, 2024: We've added apparel deals, on with immoderate much deals connected packs, tents, and REI Co-op gear.

Be definite to cheque retired our galore outdoor cogwheel guides, including our Best Tents, Best Sleeping Bags, Best Sleeping Pads, Best Camp Stoves, and Best Rain Jackets for much well-tested picks. Are you moving connected your vacation shopping? Don't hide our usher to the Best Gifts for Hikers and Outdoorsy People.

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WIRED Featured Deals

• The champion backpacking tent: REI Co-op Half Dome SL 2+ Tent for $209 (140 off)
• A puffy overgarment to brave the winter: REI Co-op Magma 850 Down Hoodie for $174 ($75 off)
• Our favourite backpacking sleeping bag: Mountain Hardwear Bishop Pass Gore-Tex 15 for $171 ($114 off)
• A GoRuck rucksack for less: GoRuck GR2 Rucksack for $262 ($113 off)
• A sleeping pad that volition support you lukewarm astatine night: Nemo Tensor All-Season Sleeping Pad for $165 ($55 off)
• A Nalgene connected the cheap: Nalgene Wide-Mouth Water Bottle (32oz) for $8.50 ($8.50 off)
• A sweater for your fika by the fire: Fjallraven Ovik Knit Sweater for $130 ($55 off)

Backpack Deals

We've been investigating time packs for years, and a fewer of our favorites are 1 merchantability now.

Mystery Ranch's Coulee 30 battalion (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is everything you request successful a bully hiking time pack. The suspension is cushy and provides a comfy transportation adjacent with dense loads. Mystery Ranch's Signature Y-shaped zippers connection casual entree to each your gear, and determination are 5 externally accessible pockets for things you privation adjacent to hand.

I person not tested the GR2, but the GoRuck GR1 (7/10, WIRED Review) is my favourite backpack for everything but hiking. (That's erstwhile I crook to the Mystery Ranch above, acknowledgment to its bully hep belt.) The remainder of the time—around town, traveling, arsenic a camera bag—the GR1 is perfect. The GR2 is precise adjacent to the GR1, but with immoderate larger options that marque it bully for travel. Like the the original, the GR2 is massively overbuilt with 1000D cordura connected the backmost and sides. It has 210D cordura connected the backmost sheet and underside of the enarthrosis straps, which is simply a spot softer and easier connected those merino T-shirts we love. The GR2 besides has respective further pockets for organizing your gear.

REI's Big Haul Duffel is cleanable for getting your cogwheel to wherever you request it, whether that's a formation to Nepal oregon a thrust to Florida. This container swallows an awesome magnitude of worldly and remains comfortable. It's got plentifulness of straps and handles to assistance you get everything secured and transportation successful comfort. There are a assortment of sizes—the fig refers to the carrying capableness successful liters—and they are each connected sale: 28 liter, 40 liter, and 120 liter.

The Flash 22 is perchance the champion worth time battalion connected the market, particularly connected sale. I was amazed by however comfy this happening is, contempt the lightweight straps and minimal padding. It carries loads up to 15 pounds without straining the shoulders, and the broadside stash pockets are fabulously large—big capable for a Nalgene vessel oregon rainfall jacket.

The ultralight relative to the Flash 22, the Flash 18 lacks the hep belt, broadside stash pockets, and floating lid. What you're near with is simply a stripped-down, bare-bones battalion that's large for traveling since you tin worldly it down to astir nothing, stash it successful your carry-on, and person a bully backpack whenever you request it. Avoid loading it down though, much than 8 pounds and this 1 gets uncomfortable.

This interior framework kids served each my children good from the ages of astir 8 connected up to 12. That volition of people alteration depending connected your kid's size and maturation rate, but we had 2 and 1 made it done 2 antithetic kids, truthful they're beauteous durable (my kids typically lone walk astir a week a twelvemonth connected the trail). There's plentifulness of retention abstraction and a mates other pockets to assistance organize. We've besides utilized it arsenic a carry-on connected respective trips.

The Best Deals connected Tents

Camping is intense! Yup, I'm conscionable going to support putting that gag successful immoderate clip I constitute astir tents, due to the fact that it ne'er gets old. But your structure will. If you request a caller one, determination are immoderate bully ones connected sale. We've spent years investigating tents, and galore of our favorites are connected merchantability now.

REI's Half Dome structure bid is an incredibly fashionable backpacking tent for bully reason—it's reasonably priced (especially connected sale), rugged, elemental to acceptable up, and offers generous surviving abstraction for 2 with gear. It besides comes with a footprint, which is simply a rarity these days. It's casual to acceptable up acknowledgment to the interchangeable poles. While it's not the lightest, it's besides not excessively atrocious astatine conscionable nether 4 pounds.

If I had to prime conscionable 1 structure to own, this would beryllium it. The Dagger Osmo 2P (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a stout, low-to-the-ground (peak tallness is 42 inches), incredibly sturdy tent—it holds up truly good adjacent successful precocious winds (45 mph erstwhile I was testing). Pair the sturdiness with large, spacious vestibules and a roomy interior, with fantabulous stargazing imaginable acknowledgment to the mesh roof, and you person a large backcountry tent. If you privation thing roomier, the three-person mentation is besides connected merchantability for $420 ($180 off).

The Big Agnes Copper Spur bid is the king of ultralight tents. I've utilized some the two-person and four-person models (on merchantability for $560) implicit the years, and Big Agnes has continually refined the plan to the constituent that these are beauteous adjacent perfect. This is simply a high-quality, well-designed tent. It's lightweight, casual to acceptable up, and unchangeable adjacent successful beardown winds. The steep sidewalls springiness you much livable abstraction than astir tents and the “awning” plan (with trekking poles oregon sticks) is great. The lone ailment I person is the price, but connected merchantability it's a small easier to handle.

Sleeping Bag and Sleeping Pad Deals

For much connected our favourite sleeping bags, beryllium definite to cheque retired our guides to the best sleeping bags and best sleeping pads,

If you're looking for a coagulated three-season quilt and don't privation to wage customized quilt prices, this is our apical pick. The top-of-the-line Vesper has everything you could inquire for successful a lightweight quilt. It weighs little than a pound, and ratcheting down the included comprehension sack volition get it to astir the size of a Nalgene bottle. The 900-fill down insulation (more connected capable powerfulness here) was much than toasty capable for nights successful the debased 40s successful the Canadian Rockies. The down is hydrophobic, which means condensation connected structure walls shouldn't beryllium an issue.

Your kids mightiness not request a kid-specific container (once they deed 4 feet, we accidental spell with an big bag), but for small ones, the Kindercone is great. It's chopped smaller truthful your kids don't person to vigor up a huge, adult-size sleeping container to enactment warm. There is nary comfortableness standing here, but if determination were, my conjecture would beryllium astir 35 degrees. The Kindercone makes a large car camping bag.

Our top prime for broadside sleepers, we emotion Nemo's Disco 15. This down mummy container was designed with a "spoon shape" for broadside sleepers and has a small other country successful the elbows and knees truthful you tin rotation implicit onto your broadside without feeling similar you're slipping into a consecutive jacket. It's built for temps down to 15 degrees and has zippered gills you tin unfastened to debar overheating successful the 40s, though I kept them each closed successful the mid-30s and wasn't overly warm.

At 2 pounds, 3 ounces, the Questar isn't the lightest container for the temp rating, but it is 1 of the warmest. Therm-a-Rest comfort-rates this container to 32 degrees, but I utilized it respective nights successful Michigan's Porcupine Mountains successful temps down to 25 and recovered it plentifulness warm. I truly similar the SynergyLink Connectors, Therm-a-Rest's somewhat ridiculous sanction for the nylon straps that unafraid the sleeping container to the pad underneath. This, combined with the somewhat wider cut, makes this 1 of the much comfy bags I've used. This is the lowest terms we've seen for this one.

The Bishop Pass without the GoreTex ammunition is our favourite backcountry sleeping bag. The main crushed we don't urge this GoreTex exemplary is due to the fact that the outer ammunition isn't worthy the other money, but with this woody you tin get the GoreTex ammunition for $10 little than the terms of regular bag—what's not to love? The Bishop Pass 15 isn't perfect, but it strikes the champion compromise for astir backpackers, being lukewarm capable for the enarthrosis seasons and airy capable (2 pounds, 5.4 ounces) that you won't caput it adjacent erstwhile you hardly request it successful the summer. If you request thing warmer, the 0-degree Gore-Tex exemplary is besides on merchantability for $310 ($140 off).

If you privation to person conscionable 1 pad that's plush capable for car camping yet reasonably lightweight (2 pounds, 2 ounces for the regular size linked here) and tiny capable for backpacking, this is the pad to get. That's wherefore it's our favourite sleeping pad. There are lighter pads, determination are comfier pads, but the Comfort Plus sets itself isolated by being capable to gracefully gaffe betwixt those worlds.

Deals connected Puffer Jackets and Rain Jackets

We're hard astatine enactment investigating puffer jackets for an upcoming guide, but this REI Magma 850 is an aboriginal standout. With 850-fill-power goose down and a recycled ripstop nylon ammunition this is 1 of the warmer contenders I've used. I similar the zippered thorax pouch (there are besides 2 zippered manus pockets, 1 of which the overgarment worldly into), and astatine 12.5 ounces this overgarment is amazingly airy for however lukewarm it is. The beforehand zip has a upwind flap, and there's adjacent a draught collar, thing you hardly ever find successful puffer astatine this price. Even amended the hood uses an elastic cord successful the backmost that allows you to cinch it down and support acold aerial from blowing successful the sides. I've worn this successful immoderate beauteous icy winds coming disconnected Lake Superior I haven't been thing but warm.

Our favourite bargain puffer jacket, the REI 650 Down Jacket isn't arsenic lukewarm arsenic the Magma above, but it's hard to reason with this price. If you request a cheap, packable overgarment for those acold summits oregon prima gazing connected chilly nights, this the overgarment to get. The stiched done baffles mean this 1 isn't arsenic warm, and is much susceptible to wind, but astatine this terms it's worthy buying.

If you privation to spell adjacent lighter, the 650 Down Vest is the aforesaid arsenic the overgarment above, minus the arms. Provided you person a bully basal furniture connected your arms, a vest is the mode to spell for much progressive pursuits. I usage a vest for each but the coldest upwind since my arms seldom get acold and I similar to person the accrued scope of motion.

Fjallraven's Expedition down hoodie is somewhat misnamed successful my opinion. I similar it a batch acknowledgment to the fantabulous fit, but the show successful my investigating is overmuch much aligned with the REI 650 overgarment and neither would beryllium my prime for an expedition. The stitched baffle operation makes a seam wherever there's nary down, which means this isn't arsenic lukewarm arsenic thing similar the Rab Glaceon Pro (alas, not connected sale), but it's inactive a large overgarment for much mild wintertime days.

I astir apt wouldn't deterioration this into the backcountry (it's connected the dense side), but this is my favourite overgarment for time hikes and astir town. It's plentifulness lukewarm acknowledgment to the flannel lining, and the waxed canvas sheds h2o amended than fractional the modern fabrics I've tested. It's besides renewable. Just melt connected immoderate much wax and you're backmost to wherever you started. I've travel to deliberation of this arsenic the formed robust cookware of jackets; it's going to past forever.

I tested this overgarment each summertime and into the autumn (admittedly, 1 of the driest ever wherever I live), and it's performed incredibly well. I've doubly had it successful important downpours and not had it bedewed done and the size zippers springiness you large ventilation options. The full overgarment is seam-taped, adding to the waterproofing, and the stretchiness of the ammunition cloth is large for a ample scope of question erstwhile you're hiking with a battalion on. The lone downside is that it weighs 15.3 ounces, which is connected the dense side.

For nether $100, you truly can't bushed REI's outdoor apparel for hitting a saccharine spot betwixt functionality and affordability. The Rainier Rain Jacket is our prime for the best affordable rainfall jacket, acknowledgment to its high-quality laminate waterproofing, seam taping, pit zips and afloat adjustable hood, nary of which is usually recovered astatine this price.

Clothing and Shoe Deals

Darn Tough makes our favourite merino wool socks. Just astir each varieties are connected sale, but if you don't cognize wherever to commencement I similar these Midweight Hiking Socks $22 ($7 off) for cooler adventures successful autumn and spring.

Prana is having an perfectly bonkers merchantability close now, offering 40 percent off definite styles. Reviewer Nena Farrell and I are some fans and person recommended Prana leggings successful our Gifts for Mom guide. The cloth is ridiculously brushed and thin, particularly if you similar blistery yoga. The Halle Pants are besides my go-to climbing and hiking pants.—Adrienne So

Fjallraven's wool sweaters are immoderate of the nicest I've tested. This isn't arsenic brushed arsenic merino wool, but it's precise brushed for wool. The patterns are bully too, nary snowflakes oregon different kitschness. Perfect for your fika by the fire.

Full disclosure: I person not yet worn these 72-hour merino wool pants for 72 hours yet. But I enactment them connected yesterday, and 48 hours from present I'm beauteous definite I'm inactive going to emotion them arsenic overmuch arsenic I bash now. They're well-tailored, person an fantabulous acceptable and, champion of all, are ace stretchy. They're the astir comfy pants I've ever worn to my curling league nighttime and I'd besides deterioration them retired to a bully meal without a 2nd thought. Because they're wool they'll stay stank-less for respective days of deterioration and with bully small details including a hidden zippered backmost pouch I'm successful for 3 consecutive days. —Martin Cizmar

Base layers are the cleanable spot for merino wool, and this is our top prime merino basal layer. The softness of this Smartwool garment is hard to beat, and the 100 percent merino means you get each of the temperature-regulating, odor-resisting goodness of wool without immoderate synthetic fibers to resistance it down.

It's winter, and it's getting colder. That means you're astir apt heading to the climbing gym. These are immoderate of the astir comfy and cheapest climbing shoes around, truthful they're large for all-day wear, oregon beginners whose feet haven't wholly converted into calloused toed claws.

I've been investigating these for a fewer months present and I truly similar them. They're cleanable for aboriginal greeting workouts erstwhile the upwind turns chill (or evening if that's however you roll). These are 56 percent merino wool with the 44 percent being recycled polyester. The effect is simply a batch much agelong than 100 percent merino would give, which is bully for running. I did find the chopped a small escaped astatine times (my kettlebell occasionally snags mid swing), but I emotion the zippered pockets and wide fit.

The Hoka Speedgoats are our favourite trail moving shoe, which makes sense, since the institution started disconnected making way moving shoes. It's roomy successful the toes for agelong runs and has a durable Vibram outsole, and it's noticeably lighter than erstwhile Speedgoat models. —Adrienne So

This is my favourite moving shoe. Altra's shoes person a roomy toed container and are zero drop, which means that they're flat—the heels are not higher than the toes. which improves your posture and strengthens your little leg. The Outroads are designed for some way and roads. This is simply a precise bully all-in-one footwear implicit a assortment of terrain. —Adrienne So

I bought these moving socks earlier this twelvemonth to replenish my stock, and I'm present going to bargain more, due to the fact that this is an unbelievable deal. These are large for wintertime running—synthetic quick-dry fibers are bully for the rain, and the unit tallness keeps bedewed mud and ungraded from sliding successful adjacent to my skin. —Adrienne So

Other Great Outdoor Deals

I love my Firebox stove. There are less and less places you tin usage these acknowledgment to backcountry pain bans, but erstwhile you can, there's thing similar cooking existent nutrient implicit an unfastened occurrence aft a agelong day's hike. The Firebox is simply a stainless alloy container you tin fold up to beryllium level for casual packing. Most of the company's stoves are connected merchantability close now, but the the G2 is the champion for astir people. If you regularly navigator for larger groups, the champion enactment is the Freestyle Everything Kit for $120 ($74 off).

The Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0 is our top prime for backyard occurrence pits. At 19.5 inches wide and 15 inches tall, it’s tiny capable to flip successful the trunk and lug to the formation oregon a tailgate but large capable to stitchery a radical of a half-dozen friends astir without feeling similar you’re sitting astir a Sterno can. Made from stainless steel, it weighs astir 25 pounds. This woody connected on the bundle, which gets you the firepit, lid, stand, and useful carrying bag. If you privation thing bigger, the Yukon is besides connected merchantability for $580 ($70 off).

Nalgene is not the hep h2o bottle of the moment. That's OK, due to the fact that to the outdoors person, the timeless classical is ever amended than the latest style, and each outdoors idiosyncratic needs different h2o bottle. Nalgenes are lighter than stainless alloy and, frankly, the lone sane enactment for backpacking (unless you privation to reuse a disposable bottle).

Garmin's InReach Mini is the outer communicator successful the ultralight and backpacking worlds. It's tiny, weighs a specified 3.5 ounces, and uses the super-fast Iridium outer network, truthful you tin nonstop a accelerated SOS from beauteous overmuch anywhere, adjacent the mediate of the Indian Ocean. It tin besides bash much mundane things similar let friends and household to way regular advancement via a real-time map. As you would expect, it plays bully with compatible Garmin watches.

The Isle Switch 3 is by acold my favourite inflatable that I person tested. Do you privation to paddle retired successful glassy, inactive h2o and prevarication connected your belly with your canine and ticker fish? Then it’s a big, solid, unchangeable paddleboard with a grippy, brushed aboveground cleanable for puppy paws. Is determination a spot of a breeze and you privation to enactment the afloat unit of your paddling muscles successful play? Slip the hooks into the eyes and tighten the straps to enactment connected a big, comfy spot and ft brace. (I utilized excavation arsenic a spot for kids down me.) Even the paddle converts from an SUP paddle to a kayak paddle. I can’t judge I’ve ne'er tried 1 of these before. This woody includes a escaped electrical pump.—Adrienne So

Goal Zero's Yeti 1000X is simply a bully prime for off-grid camping. It's got capable powerfulness to recharge each your devices for a week oregon more, arsenic good arsenic powerfulness smaller appliances similar a portable fridge. It offers a 60-watt USB-C powerfulness transportation port, 2 USB-A ports, a 12-volt port, and 2 120-volt AC ports (1,500 watts, 3,000 watts surge). You tin brace it with immoderate solar panels if you're going to beryllium disconnected grid for longer periods of time.