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ULA Ohm 2.0 Backpack on Kongma La Pass, Nepal

55 Top Quality American Made Backpack Brands

By Matt Mullins – updated August 6, 2024
 

If you’re searching for what backpacks are made in the USA then you’ve come to the right place. Here I’ve researched and compiled a directory to all of the American made backpack manufacturers I could find. If you know of more then please let me know! The pack in the above photo is one of my personal favorites, the ULA Ohm on Kongma La Pass, Nepal while trekking to Mt. Everest. If you want to see my top 5 recommended backpacks then visit my Top Recommended Backpacks page.

Alpine Luddites

Baileyworks

Bradley Mountain

The Brown Buffalo

Chrome Industries

CiloGear

  • cilogear.com – Technical backpacks for climbing, mountaineering, skiing, and more. I own and highly recommend their 45L Worksack which earned our Editor’s Choice; check out the review!

Colfax Design Works

Cooke Custom Sewing

Cross Canvas

DEFY

  • defybags.com – Urban backpacks, messenger bags, and duffel bags.

DSPTCH Design

  • dsptch.com – Urban backpacks, messenger and laptop bags.

Duluth Pack

Equinox Ltd

Exo Mountain Gear

Forloh

Free Range

Frost River

  • frostriver.com – Canvas and leather durable goods including backpacks, bike bags, canoe bags, and more.

GORUCK

  • goruck.com – Simple rucksacks, often used with Goruck weighted plates for workouts.

Green Guru Gear

Hill People Gear

  • hillpeoplegear.com – A variety or cordura backpacking, hunting, and hiking packs and gear.

Inside Line Equipment

Kifaru

Killspencer

Kletterwerks

Lotuff Leather

Mafia Bags

  • mchalepacks.com – Lightweight backpacks, duffel bags, hand bags, and totes made of kitesurfing fabric and sail cloth.

McHale Alpine Packs

MIS (Make It Simple)

  • miscalif.com – Backpacks following the KISS philosophy (Keep It Simple Stupid).

Mission Workshop

Mountain Laurel Designs

Mystery Ranch

  • mysteryranch.com – Backpacks (including the packs I used on the fireline). Note, most of their packs are now made in the Philippines. Much of their tactical line and fire packs are still made in the USA.

North St Bags

Outer Shell

  • outershell.com – Everything bike bags, like frame bags, seat bags, panniers and more.

Pack Rabbit

  • pack-rabbit.com – Interesting external frame backpacks that convert to chairs.

Pa’lante Packs

Recycled Firefighter

Red Oxx

  • redoxx.com – Burly nylon bags including backpacks, messenger bags, aviatator kit bags, overlanding gear, totes, duffels carry-on bags, and more.

Rickshaw Bagworks

Rivendell Mountain Works

Road Runner Bags

Seek Outside

  • seekoutside.com – Lightweight backpacking and hunting backpacks, sleeping bags, tipi tents and wood stoves.

Spec-Ops

  • specops.us – Tactical backpacks and various tactical nylon gear.

Stone Glacier

Superior Wilderness Designs

Tanner Goods

Tom Bihn

Tough Traveler

Triple Aught Design

Truce Designs

  • trucedesigns.com – Backpacks, duffel bags, messenger bags, and totes made to order with a wide variety of materials.

Tucker and Bloom

ULA Equipment

  • ula-equipment.com – Ultralight backpacks. I own an Ohm 2.0 pack and love it! The Ohm 2.0 received our Best Buy Award.

Vedavoo

  •  vedavoo.com – Fishing packs, bags and gear built to order in the USA.

Wild Things Gear

YAR.gear
 
  • yar.gear.com – Small batch ultralight frameless backpacks.

Z Packs

  • zpacks.com – Packs, shelters and sleeping systems

Brands No Longer Made in the USA

The following brands were previously but are no longer made in the USA including: Timbuk2 and Hyperlite Mountain Gear.

If anything changes please let us know.

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