Utah's outdoor brands include Black Diamond, Gregory, KÜHL, Cotopaxi31 and Voilé, though fewer of them build anything here than the list suggests. Of the 167 brands Beehive Made lists as of October 2, 2026, 59 make packs, climbing gear, snow gear, bikes, camp gear or outdoor clothing. Sixteen of those 59 still make product in Utah.
We tag every brand by what it does here. Thirty-nine of the 59 were founded in Utah and 50 are headquartered here. Seven are companies based abroad that run their North American business from Utah. A brand can carry more than one tag, so those numbers overlap. The ones still building here are on the made in Utah list. How they all ended up in the same valley is its own story, told in why so many outdoor companies are in Utah.
Quick answers
What outdoor brands are from Utah?
Founded here: ULA Equipment1,2, Voilé, KÜHL, Cotopaxi and WANDRD6,7, among others. Run from here: Black Diamond, which moved to Salt Lake City after it was founded, and Gregory. The map shows all of them.
Which outdoor gear is made in Utah?
ULA packs in Logan, DPS skis in Salt Lake City, ENVE rims in Ogden, Springbar's24 USA tents in Salt Lake City and Wūru clothing in Salt Lake City, along with the rest of the 16 outdoor brands on our made in Utah list.
Is Black Diamond made in Utah?
Partly. It is headquartered in Salt Lake City, and the Express ice screw lists the US as its country of origin, but the C4 Camalot lists Taiwan. The company was founded in 1989 and moved to Salt Lake City afterward.
Is Gregory a Utah company?
It is run from Salt Lake City. The brand dates to 1977, and Samsonite bought it from Black Diamond in 2014.
Utah backpack and bag companies
We list seven pack and bag brands. Three of them sew or build in Utah.
ULA Equipment, Logan. Brian Frankle founded ULA in his Logan garage in 2001. The company has changed hands twice since, and none of the owners moved it out of Logan. ULA says every pack is cut and sewn in its Logan shop and that it keeps production in the USA.
Gregory, Salt Lake City. Wayne Gregory founded Gregory in San Diego in 1977, on the theory that "great packs should be worn, not carried," which is hard to argue with at mile nine. Black Diamond bought the company in 2010 and moved its headquarters to Salt Lake City, and Samsonite bought it from Black Diamond in 2014 for $85 million. It is run from Salt Lake City now.
WANDRD, Orem. Brothers Ryan and Spencer Cope started WANDRD in 2015 because the camera bags they found either "functioned OK and looked terrible" or the reverse. The warranty covers the original owner for as long as they own the bag, and its examples of covered defects include full zipper or strap failures.
Chums8, Hurricane. Chums, started by a Colorado River dory captain in 1983, says its Hurricane facility makes more than 15,000 units a day.
Utah climbing gear companies
Five climbing brands are on the list, and two of them make product here. Black Diamond and Petzl show the range of what "Utah" can mean.
Black Diamond, Salt Lake City. Peter Metcalf and Maria Cranor led the Chouinard Equipment employees who took over that company in 1989 and renamed it Black Diamond. By the company's own history, it moved to Salt Lake City to sit at the base of the Wasatch, where employees could test gear where they climbed. Read the product page before you assume anything about origin. The C4 Camalot lists Taiwan as its country of origin, and the Express ice screw lists the US.
Petzl, West Valley City. Petzl runs its North American business from an 81,183 square foot headquarters in West Valley City, finished in 2014. That makes it one of the seven brands we tag as a North American HQ, and none of the seven carries our made in Utah tag.
Utah ski and snowboard brands
This is the largest of the six categories here, with 16 ski and snow brands. Four are tagged as made here.
DPS Skis13, Salt Lake City. Since 2013, DPS's headquarters and its factory have shared a building downtown, where the company says more than 60 engineers and builders design, press, finish and test every pair. Before that, Visit Utah14 reports, the skis were built overseas.
Voilé, Salt Lake Valley. Visit Utah says Voilé has kept production in Salt Lake City since 1980, building its own splitboards, skis, telemark bindings, avalanche shovels and soft goods rather than outsourcing to cut costs.
Chimera Snowboards15, Salt Lake City. Chimera started in 2009 in Big Cottonwood Canyon and calls itself the first splitboard-only company. It is still based in Salt Lake City. The honest note is that production boards come from a partner factory whose location the company doesn't give.
Armada, Park City. Armada, a ski company founded in 2002, announced in December 2014 that it would move its global headquarters to Summit County and add 56 jobs over eight years. The state offered a post-performance tax credit of up to $354,919. Armada's CEO named Utah's business environment first and the skiing second, which takes nerve in a ski town.
DaleBoot17, Salt Lake City. Mel Dalebout founded DaleBoot in 1969 to build custom ski boots. Zions Bank18 reported in February 2026 that the company makes them in Salt Lake City and in Kitzbühel, Austria.
Utah bike companies
We list ten bike brands, from carbon rims to a single builder's steel frames. Three are made here.
ENVE Composites, Ogden. When Slowtwitch toured the Ogden plant in 2019, rolls of carbon came out of a walk-in freezer to be laid by hand, and the machining of rim molds filled dumpsters with aluminum shavings. Amer Sports bought ENVE in 2016 for $50 million, and in 2024 it agreed to sell the company to PV3, a Utah investment firm.
SaltAir Cycles, Salt Lake City. Matthew Nelson builds steel frames in a workshop at the back of his house, after 20 years as an architect. In 2017 he won Best New Builder at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, which was held in Salt Lake City that year, so the commute to accept it was short.
Utah Trikes22, Springville. Utah Trikes keeps a shop in Springville, ships worldwide and calls itself the number one online trike retailer in the world.
Canfield Bikes, now Colorado. The first Canfield frames were built in a Layton garage in 1999. The company has since moved through Idaho and Washington to Fruita, Colorado, and in 2024 to Poncha Springs, Colorado. We list it as founded in Utah and nothing more.
Utah camping and overland gear
Eight brands make up camp and overland. Springbar is the only one tagged as made here.
Springbar, Millcreek. Springbar says its USA tents are cut and sewn in its Salt Lake City workshop.
Kodiak Canvas25,26, Layton. Kodiak Canvas introduced its Flex-Bow cotton canvas tent in 2006, after the founders got fed up with polyester tents on flimsy poles. The 10 by 14 foot Deluxe sleeps eight and costs $799.99. It weighs 79 pounds packed. Six and a half pounds of that is stakes, which tells you what kind of wind it expects.
Klymit, Kaysville. Klymit, based in Kaysville, has sold sleeping pads and other gear since 2007, and MacNeill Pride Group bought it in 2021.
Utah outdoor clothing brands
Thirteen brands sit in apparel, and the three below are the outdoor end of it. Of those three, only Wūru sews in Utah.
KÜHL, Salt Lake City. In 1986 Kevin Boyle and his brother Jay bought into a fleece hat company called Alfwear for $2,000 each, with the climber Conrad Anker as the third partner. Before that, the Deseret News28 reported, Boyle had lived in a snow cave near Alta and warmed his sleeping bag in the Peruvian Lodge laundry dryers. KÜHL says it has no shareholders and answers only to itself.
Cotopaxi, Salt Lake City. Cotopaxi was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City. It is a certified B Corporation. The company says more than 96 percent of its products use recycled or leftover deadstock fabric, among other materials.
Wūru Wool, Salt Lake City. Wūru says all of its apparel is made in its own Salt Lake City factory, which it built when its manufacturing partnerships proved inadequate.
