We Hand-Picked the 37 Best Deals From the 2025 REI Anniversary Sale

It's astir summer. The flowers are successful afloat bloom, nan birds are good north, and REI is kicking disconnected its annual day sale, nan outdoor company's biggest waste of nan year. This year’s REI waste starts May 16 and runs done Memorial Day, May 26. Many items are up to 30 percent off, but REI Co-op members prevention up to 20 percent disconnected immoderate full-price point of their prime and an extra 20 percent disconnected immoderate REI Outlet item. To get nan discount, adhd nan promo codification ANNIV2025 astatine checkout.

Several different retailers person besides launched early Memorial Day sales, including Backcountry and Public Lands, positive immoderate of our favourite smaller retailers for illustration Sea to Summit and Zenbivy, on pinch galore others you tin find connected Garage Grown Gear. We’ve highlighted immoderate deals connected cogwheel we’ve loved complete our years of testing. There’s thing for astir each our favourite summertime activities—tents, stoves, sleeping bags, and plentifulness of outdoor apparel. Be judge to look astatine our guides to outdoor gear, for illustration nan Best Day-Hiking Packs, Best Tents, Best Sleeping Bags, Best Backpacking Sleeping Pads, Best Rain Jackets, Best Backpacking Water Filters, Best Merino Wool, and Best Binoculars.

Updated Monday, May 19, 2025: We've added deals from different sales, for illustration Sea to Summit, Roark, Altra, and Six Moon Designs, on pinch immoderate caller REI deals connected campy cookware and hiking apparel.

WIRED Featured Deals

• The champion backpacking tent: REI Half Dome SL 2+ Tent for $210 ($90 off)
• Our favourite backpacking sleeping bag: Mountain Hardwear Bishop Pass 30 Long Sleeping Bag for $199 ($66 off)
• The champion hiking shoes: Salomon X Ultra 4 Hiking Shoes for $120 ($40 off)
• The champion all-around sleeping pad: Nemo Tensor All-Season Sleeping Pad for $165 ($55 off)
• A bully coming for summertime birthdays: Roark Bless Up Shirt for $67 ($22 off)

Backpack Deals

Don't hide to cheque retired our guideline to nan Best Day-Hiking Backpacks and nan Best Travel Bags.

The Flash 22 is perchance nan best-value time battalion connected nan market, particularly connected sale. I was amazed by really comfortable this point is, contempt nan lightweight straps and minimal padding. It carries loads up to 15 pounds without straining nan shoulders, and nan broadside stash pockets are fabulously large—big capable for a Nalgene vessel aliases rainfall jacket. The Flash 22 is made of 70-denier recycled ripstop nylon, which is connected nan lighter side, but excavation has held up well, moreover coming done immoderate unsmooth canyon hikes successful Utah without immoderate much than mud stains.

The ultralight relative to nan Flash 22, nan Flash 18 lacks nan hep belt, broadside stash pockets, and floating lid. What you're near pinch is simply a stripped-down, bare-bones battalion that's awesome for traveling, since you tin worldly it down to almost nothing, stash it successful your carry-on, and person a bully backpack whenever you request it. Don't load it up pinch much than 8 pounds of cogwheel though, and debar thing pinch pointy bits, arsenic there's nary padding here.

One of our favourite day-hiking packs, This Mystery Rack battalion was my preamble to wider enarthrosis straps, which supply much comfortableness without nan bulk of other padding. The consequence is simply a comfortable battalion that's ray (1 lb, 6 oz) and packable, making it a awesome other battalion erstwhile traveling. The broadside pockets are large capable for a Nalgene h2o vessel and nan 25-L capacity carries everything you request for a day. It besides fits nether nan spot of moreover mini planes. This is simply a awesome small battalion for hitting nan way aliases conscionable stepping astir town.

Our favourite day-hiking battalion for nan eco-conscious looking to recreation light, Nemo's Resolve battalion is 100 percent recycled, infinitely adjustable, and repairable, and erstwhile it’s reached nan extremity of its life, it tin beryllium sent backmost to Nemo for full recycling. The Resolve has a somewhat unusual strategy of bungees and pull-tabs, alternatively of straps aliases webbing, but it's comfortable, sitting bully and precocious connected your back. At 1 lb, 15 oz it's beautiful light, considering each nan hardware that it has connected it.

Trail Running and Road Running Deals

This is past year's type of my favourite Salomon X Ultra 5 hiking boots, which I conscionable tested complete nan play successful nan Columbia River Gorge. Salomon makes our favourite hiking boots—the institution offers awesome levels of protection and traction, while being lightweight and remarkably easy to return disconnected and put on. I for illustration really nan bottommost grips truthful I don't smash my toes while going downhill, and it's truthful sticky that I tin climb up rocks for illustration an ant. —Adrienne So

I person worn nan women's type of this footwear for years and years. Altra is nan best moving shoe if you want a footwear that has a barefoot consciousness (zero bottommost to toed drop, large toebox) but retains traction and protection against rocks and prickers. —Adrienne So

These are Altra's type of nan Brooks Glycerin Max—a super-plush, comfy roadworthy moving shoe. If you want a very cushioned footwear but are addicted to Altra's large toed container (no request to beryllium embarrassed, I americium too), these are nan shoes to get. Also, don't hide to cheque retired our guideline to nan Best Barefoot Shoes. —Adrienne So

Sleeping Bag and Sleeping Pad Deals

Confused by nan options? Check retired our guides to nan Best Sleeping Bags and nan Best Backpacking Sleeping Pads.

REI Co-op's Magma 15 is our favorite container for shoulder-season trips erstwhile nan temps mightiness driblet much than expected. It has an fantabulous draught collar that’s very bully astatine keeping retired nan chill. The extracurricular is simply a 15-denier nylon ripstop (Bluesign-approved, pinch a non-fluorinated DWR coating to support moisture astatine bay). Baffles are variably spaced and not stitched through, which helps nan capable enactment put and minimizes acold spots. The Magma doesn't person a batch of frills; it conscionable gets nan occupation done.

Our favourite summertime car-camping sleeping bag, nan REI Siesta Hooded 20, is plentifulness lukewarm and affordable. It's besides not a mummy bag, because you're not climbing Denali; why cramp yourself if you don't person to? The Siesta's rectangular trim makes for a overmuch roomier, much comfortable bag. The Siesta's 20-degree standing makes it capable for three-season trips, and dissimilar astir rectangular bags, nan Siesta has a hood, which helps connected those acold nights.

Nemo's Forte 20 is simply a 20-degree synthetic-fill sleeping bag, but nan comfortableness standing is 30 degrees. In my testing, this feels much for illustration wherever you'd want to enactment temperature-wise pinch this bag. The outer ammunition uses a 30-denier recycled polyester ripstop pinch an wrong liner made from 20-denier recycled polyester taffeta. It does a bully occupation of holding backmost nan moisture that often forms wrong a tent, which I discovered aft 1 very soggy nighttime of testing. The capable is what Nemo calls Zerofiber insulation, which is made from 100 percent postconsumer recycled contented fibers. The Zerofiber packs down remarkably small—this is nan astir compact synthetic-fill container I've tested successful this temp range—and it retains its expertise to trap warmth moreover erstwhile wet.

Our favourite backpacking sleeping bag, nan Bishop Pass 30 offers nan champion warmth-to-weight ratio while besides managing to battalion down mini and not beryllium excessively expensive. It isn't perfect, but it strikes nan champion discuss for astir backpackers. I person slept successful this container for much than 2 weeks, pinch nighttime temps ranging from 28 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit, and, yes, it was excessively overmuch successful nan heat, but connected those warmer nights, I unzipped it and covered myself for illustration a lukewarm blanket. It's a versatile bag. Note that for nan men's bag, only nan agelong type is connected sale. Both nan agelong and regular size women's 30 bags are connected sale.

I haven't had a chance to constitute astir it yet, but I tested nan Bishop Pass 0 complete nan wintertime and was pleasantly amazed astatine really lukewarm it was. I took it retired connected respective nights wherever temps dipped into nan azygous digits (below nan comfortableness standing of 13 Fahrenheit) and stayed warm. I did deterioration immoderate merino guidelines layers and a wool hat, but sleeping container comfortableness ratings presume this. If you request a colder-weather bag, without dipping into utmost temps (and highly pricey sleeping bags), this is simply a bully option.

The Zenbivy Bed 25 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is hands-down nan astir comfortable backcountry sleeping acquisition I've ever had. It wouldn't beryllium my apical prime for utmost situations, but truthful agelong arsenic your expected temperatures fresh successful Zenbivy's scope (the comfortableness standing is 35 degrees Fahrenheit), it doesn't get much comfortable than this. The Zenbivy isn't conscionable a sleeping bag. It's a sheet, hood, and quilt-style container that tin beryllium mixed successful various ways.

Zenbivy's Light Bed is simply a brand-new action that takes nan basal clip creation of different Zenbivy beds and lightens up nan load. I've been testing this container for respective months, and it is everything I loved astir nan original above, but lighter weight. I'll person a afloat reappraisal very soon, but if you've been tempted by nan Zenbivy, but wanted to support your guidelines cogwheel weight down, this is nan action you've been look for. The value I've put present includes some nan bed/sheet information and nan quilt. Note that Zenbivy is having a 25 percent disconnected sale connected almost everything connected its tract correct now.

Nemo's caller 2024 Tensor-insulated sleeping pads (8/10, WIRED Recommends) person nan champion R-value-to-weight ratio of thing I've tested, and nan All-Season is our top prime for backpacking trips. It has an R-value of 5.4 and weighs 18.2 ounces. That unsocial is impressive, but what I emotion astir nan Tensor is that it's thick, comfortable, and astir importantly, astir silent. The somewhat lighter Trail exemplary is besides connected sale, arsenic is nan Extreme Conditions pad, which is nan lightest, warmest sleeping pad connected nan market.

The darling of ultralight hikers everywhere, nan XLite NXT is our prime for backpackers looking to shed battalion weight but sphere immoderate separator of comfort. The XLite delivers a comfortable night's slumber while remaining good nether 1 lb for nan regular size. At 3 inches thick, it's plentifulness of protection from nan ground, and nan R-Value of 4.5 intends it'll beryllium plentifulness lukewarm successful astir three-season conditions.

Sea to Summit's Ether Light XT is only marginally heavier than nan Therm-a-Rest above. The other 4 ounces for nan Sea to Summit pad gets you rather a spot much cushion too—this is simply a 4-inch heavy pad, compared to nan 3 inches of nan Therm-a-rest X-Lite, which makes this a amended ultralight action for broadside sleepers. I besides hap to for illustration nan baffle creation amended too, and it seems to beryllium a small much durable, making this an fantabulous replacement ultralight pad. Note that this 1 is an REI Outlet deal, nan XT has been replaced by a newer model.

Tent Deals

Check retired our Best Tents guide for much WIRED-tested recommendations.

Our prime for Best Two-Person Backpacking Tent, REI's Half Dome is rugged and lightweight (4 pounds), and offers generous surviving abstraction for 2 pinch gear. The shelter assemblage is made of 40-denier ripstop nylon for durability astatine nan guidelines and connected nan floor, pinch 20-denier nylon mesh for nan body. The Half Dome comes pinch a footprint, which is simply a rarity these days, and bully to have. The shelter poles are aluminum and interchangeable, which makes them easy to group up and return down.

Sea to Summit's ultralight Alto (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is designed to support weight down connected your solo adventures. At conscionable 33 ounces for a semi-freestanding tent, it remains 1 of nan lighter options connected nan market, and astatine this value it's difficult to walk up. The mesh netting helps support weight down, though for thing warmer, nan Plus version, which has little mesh, is besides on waste for $275 ($275 off), an arsenic outstanding deal.

Sea to Summit’s “3-plus season” tents are tin capable successful almost immoderate upwind while staying crazy light—just 3 pounds and 12 ounces for this three-person model. I utilized it connected a five-day travel to Loon Lake successful bluish California successful early October, a existent “shoulder season” travel pinch daytime highs successful nan 80s, nighttime lows successful nan 40s, and overnight winds of up to 60 mph. My favourite creation item is that nan rod container is kept rigid by an insert of opaque achromatic plastic. Clip it to nan tent’s ceiling, popular successful your headlamp, and illuminate your abode. —Michael Calore

Nemo's Dagger Osmo (8/10, WIRED Recommends) statement of tents are reasonably ray pinch roomy interiors. The three-person type (also connected sale) has agelong been my shelter of prime for trips pinch my kids. Setup is elemental acknowledgment to nan azygous main rod creation (which forks astatine each end) pinch a transverse rod successful nan middle. There are 2 freely vestibules for storing gear, and if you time off nan rainfall alert off, nan mesh room is fantabulous for stargazing.

The Nemo Mayfly (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a three-season backpacking shelter pinch a way weight of 3 pounds, 8 ounces for nan two-person type I tested. Split betwixt 2 people, each is carrying nether 2 pounds. The Mayfly saves connected weight by utilizing a semi-freestanding design, which intends you person to partially liking it out. It's connected nan mini broadside arsenic well, astatine 27.9 quadrate feet of surviving space, pinch 2 7-square-foot vestibule areas. I find it plentifulness livable for two, and nan transverse rod gives you a wider tile area than astir tents this size. I emotion nan achromatic mesh (instead of black) and nan ace elemental clips that support nan rainfall alert secured.

This is my favourite single-wall ultralight solo tent. I person a afloat reappraisal coming later this month, but aft spending rather a while pinch this shelter I'm thing of a convert, astatine slightest for summertime camping. The Lunar Solo makes it easy to combat nan main problem pinch single-wall tents: condensation. Thanks to plentifulness of mesh, and a apical vent successful nan vestibule (like my all-time favourite backcountry shelter, nan Hilleberg Akto (10/10, WIRED Recommends), I haven't had overmuch rumor pinch condensation successful nan Lunar Solo. It's not without its quirks (read nan pitching tips), but if you want thing much than a tarp, that still weighs conscionable 26 ounces (740 grams), this 1 is difficult to beat.

Hiking Apparel Deals

Every year, I repurchase 1 of these rainfall jackets for each of my children. It's difficult to find rainfall jackets that are amended worth than REI's. The kid's type is simply a 2.5-layer ammunition pinch a non-fluorinated (read: PFAS-free) durable water-repellent (DWR) coating, taped seams, and an adjustable hood. These will past each twelvemonth (at least, arsenic agelong arsenic your kid doesn't suffer theirs). —Adrienne So

I bought my father, father-in-law, brother-in-law, and hubby each 1 of these shirts past year. Roark Clothing is simply a mini institution that makes immoderate of my favourite progressive apparel, and nan Bless Up garment is nan cleanable summertime shirt. It's perforated and made from synthetic fibers, truthful it's cleanable for super-humid formation days erstwhile nan temperatures are supra 90 degrees.—Adrienne So

I haven't had a chance to adhd them to my Best Merino Wool Clothing Guide, but these are nan champion merino ankle moving socks I've tried. They're not nan highest merino contented (54 percent, nan remainder is nylon and elastane), but they're thin, light, and activity good pinch barefoot shoes (and different shoes). They besides defy odor amazingly good for only astir half merino. —Adrienne So

I still for illustration Darn Tough's lightweight hiking socks, but these Smartwool socks are a adjacent second, and good worthy buying astatine this price. Can you ever person excessively galore wool hiking socks? I'd opportunity no. These are 56 percent merino wool, truthful there's a bully spot of stretchiness, yet they enactment beautiful odor-free moreover aft a mates days connected nan trail. Grab 2 brace and rotate them to support your feet barren and happy.

This is wildly affordable compared to nan different sun hoodies we tested for our Best Sun Protection Clothing guide. WIRED reviewer Jaina Grey recovered it ace soft and breathable, pinch thumb holes to protect nan backmost of your hands. It's UPF 50, and it whitethorn beryllium a batch easier to get your kids aliases delicate family members to deterioration clothing alternatively of smearing sticky sunscreen each complete their bodies. —Adrienne So

Camping Deals

We're successful nan last shape of testing for a backpacking stove guideline that will beryllium up very soon, and nan MSR PocketRocket 2 will beryllium our apical prime for propane canister stoves. It's elemental to usage and boils h2o quickly (about 3.5 minutes for 1 liter astatine oversea level). It's besides much durable and truthful much reliable than nan different ultralight stoves I've tested. And it weighs conscionable 2.6 ounces.

I person yet to do a travel pinch a outer communicator, but I do understand why group usage them. If I were to bring 1 along, this is nan 1 I'd get. It's tiny, ray (3.5 ounces), and easy stashable. It utilizes nan super-fast Iridium outer network, truthful you tin nonstop a accelerated SOS from beautiful overmuch anywhere. There are other features for illustration waypoints and interval tracking, and it plays bully pinch compatible Garmin watches.

This is my ain individual REI acquisition for this year, which is simply a life overgarment for my 1-year-old puppy. We do a batch of boating during nan summer, and while my spouse insists that dogs tin swim, I americium not rather judge I spot her. At nan very least, it gives my canine a fewer handles for maine to drawback if she gets swept away. —Adrienne So

Do you crave a chair erstwhile you're backpacking? If so, this is 1 to get. It's conscionable astir nan lightest connected nan marketplace astatine 18 ounces, packs down very small, and solves nan number 1 problem pinch each rod chairs: nan included guidelines pad keeps it from sinking successful soft ground.

Nalgene h2o bottles for half off, what's not to love? I've ever preferred nan timeless classical to nan latest style, which mightiness beryllium portion of why I've ne'er utilized different h2o vessel (well, not counting reusing Smartwater bottles erstwhile backpacking). Nalgenes are lighter than stainless alloy and, frankly, nan only sane action for hiking. Grab 2 of nan big 48 ounce bottles, instrumentality them successful nan sides of your Mystery Ranch Coulee 30, and your family will ne'er beryllium thirsty again.

This is nan fancy type of our favourite campy stove. Here you get physics ignition and a bully ray greenish overgarment job. Is it worthy nan other $30? That's up to you. If it's not, snag nan little fancy type for $59 astatine Walmart.

I'm not judge this really qualifies for nan “ultralight” moniker, and these pots are unluckily marred by having a ton of clone influencer reviews retired there, but they're really rather good. And if you're cooking for a group, this 3-liter cookware is astir arsenic ray arsenic it gets. This is my go-to cookware for family backpacking trips. The hard-anodized aluminum is sturdy and provides bully power transfer. The ceramic nonstick coating makes for easy cleanup (especially paired pinch nan GSI scraper below). You tin besides nest nan 2L type ($49) wrong this 1 for much cooking options connected nan trail. If you want to spell nuts pinch it, I haven't tried it, but you tin theoretically besides nest the 1.3L type ($49) wrong nan 2L.

Sea to Summit's Frontier cookware is my all-time favourite backcountry cooking vessel. It's not ultralight to bring an 8-inch frying cookware backpacking, but erstwhile you're fresh to move beyond boil-in-a-bag nutrient and immoderate those disgusting gel tubes are, nan Frontier cookware is nan measurement to do it. When you want to build a pick condiment from dried beverage (it tin beryllium done!) aliases request to sauté those brook trout, a bully cookware that distributes power reasonably evenly is indispensable. The Frontier manages to do that, and it has a bully curved edge, making it easy to activity pinch and easy to cleanable up. The Frontier cookware checks each nan boxes acknowledgment to its awesome creation and ceramic coating, and it someway manages to measurement conscionable 13 ounces.

No, it's not an earth-shattering deal, but this is perchance nan champion portion of backpacking cogwheel I own. GSI's cookware scraper is nan unsung leader of backcountry cooking, turning cleanup from a tedious chore to a mates of seconds’ work. Now, if you earnestly pain something, this point will not prevention you (boil h2o successful nan cookware to loosen nan burnt bits), but for each different situation, scraping down your cookware pinch this instrumentality will get you 99 percent of nan measurement to a cleanable pot. I see this 1 indispensable; you mightiness arsenic good drawback 1 while it's a mates bucks cheaper.