American Made Sleeping Bags Guide

• Enlightened Equipment

  Enlightened Equipment Offers Ultralight camping quilts for backpacking, bikepacking, and paddling adventures. Down or synthetic compact quilt-style sleeping bags and outdoor gear made in Minnesota, USA.

  
  
  

• Exxel Outdoors

  Exxel Outdoors owns and operates the largest sleeping bag factory in America, located in Haleyville, Alabama. The facility produces approximately two million sleeping bags per year, with capacity to make four million. Currently they produce rectangular sleeping bags, made in America with imported materials. Their production plans are underway to bring their mummy and shaped sleeping bag production to their Alabama factory.
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• Feathered Friends

  Feathered Friends has been handmaking sleeping bags in Seattle, Washington since 1972. Owners Carol and Peter began with a sewing machine in a basement, and have forged a legacy of craftsmanship and quality that the second generation of their family carries on today.

  
  
  

• Katabatic Gear

  Their designs are innovative and state-of-the-art. They use the finest materials available and keep almost all manufacturing in-house, and always ensure the highest quality. Their bag shells are imported. Designed, filled, finished and stringently inspected in Colorado.

  
  
  

• Nunatak

  Nunatak Gear is dedicated to the design and manufacturing of quality ultralight sleeping bags and lightweight down jackets utilizing 900 or better goose down and sophisticated shell fabrics. From a basement operation in West Seattle with a bunch of good ideas and little else, they are now a full time business located in Moab, Utah.

  
  
  

• Wenzel

  Wenzel is a part of a large family of outdoor brands owned and operated by Exxel Outdoors. Located on the foothills of the Colorado Rockies in Boulder, their backyard is literally an outdoor enthusiast’s dream. With access to hundreds of trails, numerous lakes and streams, and powdery snow-capped mountains, they are experts at crafting camping gear because it’s a foundation of who they are.
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• Western Mountaineering

  Western Mountaineering manufactures all of their sleeping bags in San Jose, California using the finest raw materials in the world. All bags are filled with 850+ fill power goose down from Eastern Europe and they diligently source the most advanced shell fabrics, each with a particular function. With more than ten models under two pounds in total weight, the lightweight enthusiasts have plenty to choose from.
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• Wiggy's, Inc.

  If you buy a product with the Wiggy's name on it., that means it's their reputation and name on the line. To that end, they stand behind their products. That's why Wiggy's offers a lifetime warranty on all sleeping bags.
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• ZPacks

  ZPacks Offers Lightweight Backpacking Gear: Ultralight Down Sleeping Bags, Quilts, Cuben Fiber Backpacks, Tents, Tarps, Shelters, Custom Made in USA Since 2005.

  
  
  

Any brands marked with the gold 100 icon indicates that some (or all) of their sleeping bags are made in the USA using 100% domestically sourced materials. The silver star indicates their products are assembled in America using both domestic and imported components, and the bronze star indicates that their products are assembled in the U.S. using all imported materials.

The brands in the above list might produce the same type of products in other countries as well. Many businesses alter their brand names, manufacturing practices or product designs with little or no notice, so if there are questions that still remain, we recommend contacting the manufacturer directly.