The 31 Best Deals From REI’s 2024 Labor Day Sale

Summer is winding down, which means it's clip for the yearly REI Labor Day Sale. This year’s lawsuit kicks disconnected today, August 23, and ends connected Labor Day, September 2. Many items are up to 40 percent off, and REI Co-op members prevention up to 20 percent connected immoderate REI Outlet item. To get the subordinate discount, adhd the promo codification SAVEOUTLET astatine checkout.

We’ve highlighted immoderate of our favourite deals connected cogwheel we’ve loved implicit our years of testing. There’s thing for astir each our favourite outdoor activities—tents, stoves, sleeping bags, and plentifulness of outdoor apparel. Be definite to look astatine our guides to outdoor gear, similar the Best Tents, Best Sleeping Bags, Best Sleeping Pads, Best Rain Jackets, Best Merino Wool, and Best Binoculars.

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WIRED Featured Deals

• The champion backpacking tent: REI Half Dome SL 2+ Tent for $245 ($104 off)
• Darn-near everlastingly boots: Danner Mountain Light Hiking Boots for $330 ($110 off)
• Our favourite quilt for ultralight backpacking: Therm-a-Rest Vesper Down Quilt 32 for $279 ($120 off)
• A luxury h2o filter: MSR Guardian Gravity Purifier for $225 ($75 off)
• The champion closed-cell foam pad: Therm-a-Rest Z Lite Sol Sleeping Pad for $34 ($14 off)
• The champion Coleman stove: Coleman Cascade 3-in-1 Camp Stove for $157 ($52 off)

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 merchantability now. We've spent years investigating tents, and these are the champion deals connected our favorites.

REI's Half Dome structure bid is astir apt the astir fashionable backpacking tent around. I can't archer you however galore of these I've seen retired connected the trail. It's reasonably priced (especially connected sale), rugged, elemental to acceptable up, and offers generous surviving abstraction for 2 with gear. The structure assemblage is made of 40-denier ripstop nylon for durability astatine the basal and connected the floor, with 20-denier nylon mesh (both fabrics are Bluesign approved). It besides comes with a footprint, which is simply a rarity these days. The structure poles are aluminum and interchangeable, which makes it casual to acceptable up and instrumentality down. The Copper Spur beneath is lighter, but with a packed value conscionable nether 4 pounds, 2-person Half Dome isn't excessively dense erstwhile divided betwixt 2 people.

The Big Agnes Copper Spur bid is the king of ultralight tents. I've utilized some the two-person and four-person models ($560) implicit the years, and Big Agnes has continually refined the plan to the constituent that I person thing near to kick about. This is simply a high-quality, well-designed tent. It's lightweight, casual to acceptable up, and unchangeable adjacent successful beardown winds. The Copper Spur is besides precise livable, with steep sidewalls to maximize interior space. The ingenious “awning” plan makes getting successful and retired a snap. The lone ailment I person is the price, but connected merchantability it's a small easier to handle.

The Dagger Osmo 2P (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a stout, low-to-the-ground (peak tallness is 42 inches), incredibly survey tent—it holds up truly good successful 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. There's plentifulness of country for 2 sleeping pads, and mesh pockets assistance support small items from getting lost. The lone existent downside is the weight. I find 4 pounds good erstwhile divided betwixt 2 people, but the ultralight-obsessed volition apt similar Nemo’s Hornet oregon Dragonfly tents. If you privation thing roomier, the 3-person mentation is besides connected merchantability for $450 ($150 off).

Nemo Equipment’s caller Mayfly Osmo (8/10, WIRED Recommends) two- and three-person tents are everything you’d expect from Nemo—solidly built, cleverly designed, with upwind absorption and durability successful mind. I tested the Mayfly two-person, which has a way value of 3 pounds, 8 ounces. A small heavier than our apical prime for ultralight hiking (the Big Agnes Copper Spur above) but inactive beauteous airy erstwhile divided betwixt 2 people. It's a semi-freestanding design, which means determination are less poles, but you person to involvement retired oregon different unafraid the foot-end of the tent. Two sewn-in ridged stays assistance guarantee there’s plentifulness of country by your feet, but the Mayfly is connected the choky side. Two sleeping pads fit, and hikers nether 6'4" volition beryllium fine, but if you’re not adjacent with your hiking partner, the three-person exemplary for $345 ($115 off) volition beryllium a amended option.

We person not tested the ultralight Hornet line, but I person camped with idiosyncratic who was utilizing it and did ascent in. It's amazingly roomy, with steep sidewalls. They bash constrictive toward the top, but I could comfortably beryllium up. The existent entreaty present is the weight. At conscionable 2 pounds, 4 ounces, this is 1 of the lightest freestanding solo tents connected the market. I was impressed with my ever-so-brief clip successful the Hornet, and it's connected my database to trial aboriginal this year.

This is simply a smokin' woody connected our favourite household tent. The Habitude is strong, comparatively light, and easy fits successful your trunk oregon a canoe. The plan is simple, and the poles are color-coded. There's plentifulness of level abstraction for sleeping pads and sleeping bags to support 2 adults, 2 toddlers, and a largish canine lukewarm astatine night. It besides has retention pockets, places to bent lights, and a vestibule. The lone large downside is that it doesn't get rather arsenic overmuch airflow arsenic immoderate of the different picks successful our best-tents guide. The 4-person mentation is besides connected merchantability for $360 ($240 off).

If you've ridden retired a unsmooth nighttime with wind-driven rainfall oregon sleet and considered whether you mightiness request 1 of those $6,000 pole-supported fortresses they usage astatine Everest basal camps, you mightiness see the REI Base Camp 6. I astir apt would not trust connected this structure for a radical of Alpinists summiting Aconcagua, but it hasn't adjacent made maine flinch successful the Colorado snowfall oregon driving Maine rain. At 20 pounds it's not a structure you'll privation to lug far, but with overlapping poles and a DWR-coated rainfly it doesn't drip oregon rattle. —Martin Cizmar

Our favorite lightweight household tent, the MSR Elixir 4 structure isn't rather arsenic pricey arsenic the Big Agnes Copper Spur, but it's not overmuch heavier (just nether 8 pounds versus conscionable nether 6 for the Copper Spur 4-person). I’ve utilized this with my 3 kids connected respective backpacking trips, and determination was plentifulness of interior abstraction for each of us. That said, 3 adults volition beryllium much comfy than four. We haven't tested it, but the 2-person mentation is besides connected merchantability for $192 ($128 off).

The Best Deals connected Sleeping Bags and Pads

Whether you're readying the cleanable household camping travel oregon are trekking successful Patagonia, there's a sleeping container optimized for that. After years of testing, we've recovered the champion sleeping bags for everyone, and immoderate of our favorites are connected merchantability present astatine REI's Labor Day sale.

Our top prime for shoulder-season trips (spring and fall), the Magma 15 is an all-around coagulated sleeping bag. It doesn't person a batch of frills; it conscionable gets the occupation done. It's the container I astir often drawback for trips wherever acold upwind whitethorn get unannounced. It has an fantabulous draught collar that’s precise bully astatine keeping retired the chill. Baffles are variably spaced and not stitched through, which helps the capable enactment enactment and minimizes acold spots. I besides truly similar the Magma hood, which is lukewarm and stays connected your caput passim the night. The Magma bid comes successful a bewildering array of sizes and shapes—there are 9 sizes to take from, ranging from Short Narrow, which weighs 2 pounds, to Long Wide, which is astir 3 pounds. The Magma 30 is also connected merchantability for $265 ($113 off) if you don't request this lukewarm of a bag.

Currently our top prime for broadside sleepers, but we're really going to region it; we similar Nemo's Disco 15 ($300) amended for broadside sleepers, but this is inactive a large bag. Weighing 2 pounds, 3 ounces, it isn't the lightest container astatine this somesthesia 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.

The darling of gram-counting backpackers, quilts dispense with the useless fractional of a sleeping container (the bottom, which mostly gets squashed down anyway). While we emotion the cottage manufacture quiltmakers serving ultralighters and hammockers, Therm-a-Rest's top-of-the-line Vesper has everything you could inquire for successful a lightweight quilt. The 32-degree mentation weighs little than a pound, has 900-fill down (good into the debased 40s successful our testing), and ratcheting down the included comprehension sack volition get it to astir the size of a Nalgene bottle. If you privation a warmer mentation the 20-degree Vesper is also connected merchantability for $322 ($138 off), though we recovered the acceptable a spot tighter.

This is our favorite sleeping container for car camping. You truly shouldn't request to walk a batch of wealth here. Should your champion efforts to cocoon warmth astir you fail, determination is, aft all, a car to retreat to. That's wherefore we emotion the REI Siesta Hooded 20—it's plentifulness lukewarm and affordable. It's besides not a mummy bag, due to the fact that you're not climbing Denali; wherefore cramp yourself if you don't person to? The Siesta's rectangular chopped makes for a overmuch roomier, much comfy bag. The Siesta's 20-degree standing makes it capable for three-season trips, and dissimilar astir rectangular bags, the Siesta has a hood, which helps connected those acold nights. Also you tin zip 2 Siestas together.

Once your kids deed astir 4 feet, I'd accidental conscionable enactment them successful an big bag. Before that they'll payment from a kids' sleeping container similar the Kindercone, which is chopped smaller truthful your small ones 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. You tin backpack with it, but it's awkward. I spent 4 nights successful the Pisgauh Wilderness lugging this happening astir for my son. It's dense (3 pounds, 3 ounces) and huge, but you tin bash it successful a pinch.

This is the beefy, ultra-luxury pad that started the inclination of immense car-camping pads. And for that we convey Exped. The MegaMat is 1 of our favourite sleeping pads and has somewhat amended insulation than our apical prime successful that guide, making it a amended prime if you slumber acold oregon are headed retired successful the enarthrosis seasons wherever colder temps are possible.

Our favorite sleeping pad for couples, the queen-size Kingdom Air Bed is 56 inches wide and 6 inches tall, wide capable to clasp Mom and 2 simple schoolers and acceptable wrong MSR's 6-person Habitude tent. (Dad and the canine inactive had to slumber connected the ground.) It comes with a tiny worldly sack for casual transport that includes a manual aerial pump, but the cosmopolitan nozzle means you tin ditch the pump and usage a battery-powered 1 for speedy and casual inflating. The welded seams kept the mattress taut and bouncy done 3 days and nights of kids jumping up and down connected it. The aboveground is brushed capable to slumber with your look pressed against it if you descent retired of your sleeping bag, and it’s insulated, with an R-value of 2.6. —Adrienne So

The archetypal and inactive the champion closed-cell foam pad successful our testing, the Z Lite comes with maine connected astir each travel I take. Why not? It weighs lone 10 ounces for the small. It is bulky, but it's casual to strap to astir packs. It tin treble arsenic a chair, other padding connected acold nights, a table, you sanction it.

If you’re consenting to transportation a fewer other ounces successful speech for immoderate added comfort, this is our favourite luxurious backpacking pad. At 28 ounces for the regular wide, it's decidedly connected the dense side, but it's besides 3 inches thick, and we committedness you don't consciousness the pebbles, oregon adjacent tiny rocks, nether this thing. The 3.7 R-value successful the latest mentation bests the 1 we primitively tested. That makes it a bully prime for three-season camping oregon backpacking. Be alert that this latest mentation is louder than the previous, according to a person who bought one. I can't vouch for that, but online reviews look to backmost this up.

Exped's Ultra 7R is our favourite 4-season sleeping pad. It offers (as the sanction suggests) an R-value of 7 successful a pad that weighs nether 2 pounds for the wide version. And I suggest going for the wide version. I recovered the regular to beryllium a spot connected the constrictive side, and the value quality (5 ounces) doesn't warrant the mislaid sleeping space. I utilized this pad down to 30 degrees Fahrenheit and was precise comfy (in a 20-degree bag). Exped rates it to –20 degrees Fahrenheit.

This is the best kids’ sleeping pad, but similar we said supra astir the kids’ sleeping bag, its truly lone an vantage for the under-four-feet crowd. Older kids tin get by with an big pad that volition past them adjacent erstwhile they outgrow the 60 inches of this one. The Kindercamp sports an R-value of 4.5, which makes it cleanable for astir car-camping trips (R 4.5 should beryllium capable down to astir 30 Fahrenheit). The abstracted valves for ostentation and deflation marque it overmuch easier for small kids to not get confused and assistance acceptable up.

Fitness Tracker and Tech Deals

Garmin's Forerunner enactment has a confusing array of options, from our favorite, the Forerunner 165 (8/10, WIRED Recommends), to the precise costly 956 (below). The 265 connected merchantability present is simply a bully compromise, leaning toward the apical end. It has a agleam AMOLED display, an altimeter for much close mileage, HRV status, grooming readiness and upwind info. We truly similar Garmin's Morning Report, which wakes you up with a summary of past night's stats—how good you slept, the weather, and however acceptable you are to instrumentality connected the day.

The Forerunner 965 is the “It slices! It dices! It does everything!” exemplary successful the Forerunner lineup. IT has everything the 265 has but adds bully extras similar multiband GPS, full-color, built-in maps, contention strategy readying with regular suggested workouts, and tons more. If you privation the Forerunner that does it (nearly) all, this is the 1 to get.

Great Deals connected Outdoor Apparel

Want boots that volition past darn-near forever? These are our apical prime for durability. These iconic boots aren't the lightest, nor are they the astir nimble, and the acceptable is possibly not arsenic dialed successful arsenic you whitethorn beryllium utilized to (you person to interruption them in), but these are the boots that you privation to beryllium wearing portion backpacking oregon if you person to fly a earthy catastrophe connected foot. They’re inactive made by manus successful Portland, Oregon, and we've been wearing them for implicit 15 years.

Like its tents, REI’s rainfall jackets connection unthinkable worth for the money. The Rainier is simply a perennial affordable prime successful our usher to the Best Rain Jackets. It uses high-quality laminate waterproofing alternatively of the little costly coating that galore cheaper rainfall jackets trust on. The Rainier besides has galore large features that are pugnacious to find successful rainfall jackets astatine this price: venting pit zips, seam-taping, a weatherproof halfway zip, and an adjustable, packable hood. The matching pants are besides connected merchantability for $70 (Men's/Women's).

This is the aforesaid overgarment arsenic above, but for kids. The kids’ mentation is simply a 2.5-layer ammunition with a non-fluorinated (read: PFAS-free) durable water-repellent (DWR) coating, taped seams, and an adjustable hood. These volition past each twelvemonth (aas agelong arsenic your kid doesn't suffer theirs).

The REI 650 down overgarment is one of our favourite puffy jackets. This is the kids’ version, but similar the big styles (alas, not connected sale) it strikes a bully equilibrium betwixt prime and price. It's lightweight, warm, and a large woody astatine this price.

Great Deals connected Stoves and Water Filters

My favourite of Coleman's existent lineup, the Cascade 3-in-1 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) features heavy-duty formed iron, comes with a cast-iron griddle and grill, and tin acceptable a 12-inch cookware and a 10-inch cookware broadside by side. It's all-around sturdier and much robust than different Coleman stoves, good worthy the other wealth if you're serious astir campy cooking.

This lightweight, efficient, compact stove is cleanable for the backcountry. It's casual to use, and the substance is inexpensive enough. The latest exemplary is simply a tad heavier astatine 2.9 ounces, but that’s inactive brainsick airy by astir standards. There's present a push-start igniter arsenic good arsenic a wider burner head, which MSR claims gives you amended vigor distribution.

The WhisperLite Universal is simply a fable for bully reason. It'll pain conscionable astir thing (isobutane-propane, achromatic gas, gasoline, kerosene), making it a large prime for traveling internationally oregon wherever you don't cognize what benignant of substance volition beryllium available. Flame power is simply a small tricky, but we person managed to get it to simmer, arsenic agelong arsenic the upwind isn't excessively bad.

Our favourite mode to debar the greenish propane bottles is this state growler. This exemplary gets you a 4.5-liter propane vessel with a bully padded/insulated sleeve and a useful strap for carrying, and it makes your campy setup look overmuch nicer than a bare tank. It besides saves your shins during those inevitable run-ins with acold hard alloy that travel from lugging astir a large propane tank. This size is the equivalent of 5 greenish propane bottles.

This h2o filter changed backpacking for me. Pumping h2o portion fending disconnected mosquitoes is nary one's thought of a bully time, particularly erstwhile you're pumping h2o for your full family. With this genius filter from MSR you conscionable capable the bag, locomotion backmost to camp, bent it up, and a fewer minutes aboriginal everyone's thirst is quenched. It's not cheap, but it's worthy each penny.

I'm inactive investigating the Sawyer micro compression filter, but truthful acold I similar it. It's tiny and weighs conscionable 2.5 ounces. It works with a straw oregon the included pouch, and there's an adapter to capable your hydration reservoir straight (provided it uses the semi-standard 28-mm threads). At this size you're doing to person to back-flush it reasonably frequently, but it's large for abbreviated trips. For longer hauls I'd spell with the regular size, which is also connected merchantability for $30 ($10 off).