REI's Labor Day sale ends tonight at midnight. Many items are up to 30 percent off, and REI Co-op members save 20 percent on any REI Outlet item (on top of the sale price). To get the member discount, add the promo code LABORDAY2025 at checkout.
Many of the best REI deals are on the company's house brand gear, but we've also pulled in deals from competing sales at Backcountry, Mystery Ranch, Hyperlite Mountain Gear, Zenbivy, and other cottage industry retailers. Below are the best deals on all our favorite tents, backpacks, sleeping bags, pads, cookware, outdoor apparel, and more.
Updated Monday, September 1: We've added some last minute Labor Day sale finds on Mystery Ranch packs, bike helmets, satellite messengers, headlamps, tent stakes, and more.
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Deals on Tents
REI tents are some of the best deals around, even more so during sales. If you'd like to learn more, see our guide to the best backpacking tents and best car camping tents.
Photograph: Scott Gilbertson
REI's Base Camp tent is WIRED's favorite car camping tent. It's extremely well designed and proved plenty weatherproof in our testing. The traditional dome tent design, with two crossed poles and two side poles, holds up well in wind, and the tent floor is high-quality 150-denier (150D) polyester. There's loads of storage pockets, double doors, great vents, and huge windows, making it comfortable even in summer heat.
The Wonderland 6 is REI's replacement for the Kingdom 6 and looks to be, for the most part, very similar. We haven't tested this one, but my almost 20-year-old Kingdom 6 is still going strong. For the most part, it's made of the very same ripstop nylon used in the Wonderland. With plenty of mesh, this will have better ventilation than the Base Camp above, but the rainfly doesn't come as low and the hoop design isn't quite a strong. For summer camping, though, this is a great option.
The Marmot Halo is my favorite all-weather 4-person family tent. It features a a low-profile design, with steep sidewalls, and a solid, nearly full-length rain fly, which, combined make this a livable haven in a storm. The name comes from the unusual pole design. There are two cross poles, like every square, domed tent, but the side poles connect halfway up the tent body instead of at the ground. This gives the Halo steeper sidewalls—and therefore more usable space—than any other tent I've tested. The downside is that you can't stand up in it.
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