Backpacks

Compare five rucksacks for UK day walks and overnight trips, with fit and capacity advice and a conditional unisex budget option.

Compare four UK travel backpacks for underseat and overhead allowances. Choose by packed dimensions, laptop access, carrying comfort and your actual fare.

You’ve bought a decent rucksack, loaded it with everything you might possibly need for a day on the Pennine Way, and ten minutes into the walk your shoulders are screaming. The pack feels like it’s trying to pull you backwards off the hill. Your water bottle is buried somewhere near the bottom,…

There’s a smell coming from the cupboard under the stairs, and you’ve traced it to your rucksack. It’s been three months since that rainy Lake District weekend, and the combination…

It’s 6pm on a November afternoon, the trail back to camp has disappeared into darkness twenty minutes earlier than you expected, and you’re trying to navigate tree roots while holding…

You’ve just booked your first proper camping trip — maybe a weekend in the Lake District or a few nights along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. You start packing, grab that…

You’re in Go Outdoors, staring at a wall of day packs that all look roughly the same — mesh back panels, stretchy pockets, hydration-compatible sleeves — and the price tags…

Wild camping — sleeping out in the landscape with nothing but a tent, a sleeping bag, and the sky above