How to Choose the Best Towel for your Camping or Backpacking Trips

How to Choose the Best Towel for your Camping or Backpacking Trips

What makes a good towel for camping or backpacking? In this post, youโ€™ll learn everything you need to know about good camping and backpacking towels. Important Features Here, Iโ€™ll be listing out plenty of important features. Take note that not all of them will be important to you. For example, if youโ€™re car camping, portability…

10 Best Camping Towels
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The 10 Best Camping Towels (2025): I Bought & Tested Them All

For this review, I bought and tested these 10 best camping towels (in no particular order): Summary Here are all the camping towels that I bought, tested and recommend: If you enjoyed the video, please consider subscribing to my YouTube channel right here: All the camping towels that I bought and tested: Camping Towel Read…

Matador NanoDry storage pouch and grass test
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Matador NanoDry Towel Review: I Bought & Tested It

Rating and Summary The Matador NanoDry towel is an absolute beast as a backpacking towel, and even as a camping towel. The Matador NanoDry’s biggest appeal is its weight – Coming in at just 68 grams or 2.4 ounces, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more lightweight shower towel in the market. (I know I…

This is a picture of me dragging the PackTowl Personal towel across some grass.

PackTowl Personal Review: I Bought & Tested It

Rating and Summary The PackTowl Personal is a wonderful camping towel that did well across almost every single test that I threw at it. It has excellent odor resistance, is my second fastest drying camping towel, is super dirt repellent, and much, much more. Unless you’re looking for something super specialized (like the most lightweight…

Nomadix towel folded and unfolded

Nomadix Original Towel Review: I Bought & Tested It

Rating and Summary The Original Nomadix Towel is a high quality packable towel that has incredible stitching and materials, fantastic design and has stood up to months of abuse without fraying, losing material, or fading in color. I can certainly see it lasting for many years, and still remain as vibrant as ever. In addition,…

Wise Owl towel in storage pouch and logo of the Wise Owl towel

Wise Owl Towel Review: I Bought & Tested It

Rating and Summary The Wise Owl Outfitters Camping Towel is an inexpensive, dirt repellent and durable packable towel. It’s of good quality and has decent overall performance, all for a super affordable price. It’s no wonder that the Wise Owl Towel has one of the highest ratings for packable towels on Amazon, and I couldn’t…

Sea to Summit Drylite Towel Review

Sea to Summit Drylite Review: I Bought & Tested It

Rating and Summary The Sea to Summit Drylite towel has the necessary qualities to be a decent camping towel. For example, it beats a regular cotton towel in aspects like wringing, drying, odor resistance, dirt repellence and portability. However, after just 4 months of light usage, I noticed a few quality issues. What are these…

Rainleaf in storage pouch and on a tree

Rainleaf Microfiber Towel Review: I Bought & Tested It

Rating and Summary The Rainleaf Microfiber Towel is one of the most popular microfiber packable towels on Amazon, marketed to be suitable for all kinds of activities, including camping. So, I couldn’t resist but to buy it and try it out for myself. Compared to the 9 other camping towels that I bought as well…