Youphoria Microfiber Travel Towel Fast Drying Lightweight - Quick Dry Towel for Camping, Beach, Backpacking, Hiking & Sport

Large, fast-drying camping towel that’s genuinely useful, even if it’s not the softest. My wife and I each have one of the Youphoria microfiber travel towels and they’ve become part of our regular camping gear. The best part is the size, it’s big enough to actually wrap around your body (they come in larger options like 32 x 72 inches, which is the kind of coverage we wanted for camping). Dry time is excellent. After a shower or a quick rinse at camp, it dries much faster than a standard cotton towel, so it doesn’t stay damp in the tent or the car. It’s also plenty absorbent for its weight, and it packs down small in the included carry bag, which matters when you’re trying to keep gear compact. The only downside is the feel. Like a lot of microfiber towels, it’s not “plush soft” like a bath towel at home, but it does the job and the performance makes up for it. Overall, we’d recommend it to anyone who camps, travels, or just wants a lightweight towel that dries quickly.

Big towel, does the job, not "ultralight," but true ultralight would probably be a paper towel. Packed easily, doubled as added warmth at night as well. Kept me covered at outdoor showers, dried me off, and dried pretty quickly (weather at end of day was cool). I'd recommend. I will likely keep in my car for backup gym towel.

When they’re dry when stored properly, they are very compact. They weigh nothing come with their own little bag and drive very quickly. I can easily fit four of them in a backpack with plenty of space left over

A great towel for sports or the pool. Soft, absorbent fabric and a convenient bag for taking with you everywhere.

I haven’t used the towel yet but it seems like it’s going to work for my trip. It’s thicker than I expected and pretty good size. Nice that it came with a bonus washcloth. I washed as instructed and it dried quick. Hopefully Audrey it will too

Okay, let's see if Amazon will let me cross post this comparison review, since I bought both products and these are all my words: I purchased both the beach towel sized Rainleaf rainbow microfiber towel (40in x 70in) and the Youphoria hiking microfiber body towel (28in x 56in). I do a lot of road-trips/ traveling and also want to start backpacking, so my concerns are size, weight, packability and functionality. Here goes: For backpacking, where every single ounce of weight and cubic inch of space matters, I will definitely be using my Youphoria instead, and probably leave my rainleaf at home. The youphoria is about half the weight, and packed down it is half the size of the rainleaf. In backpacking, you cut down on a lot of luxury, but I am very happy that the youphoria is big enough to wrap around myself to cover everything that matters and tuck into itself (I am a woman weighing 140lbs, 5'4", of average build). Standing straight with both arms at my sides and the youphoria around me, it reaches from my armpits to my fingertips and overlaps itself around my waist about 8 inches. The rainleaf does this to a much more luxurious extent, reaching from my armpits to mid-calf-height, and overlapping itself by 22 inches. I also washed them together and set them out to airdry for several hours (didn't time it), and found the youphoria to dry a bit faster. I expect that in a backpacking situation where the towel is attached unfurled to your bag to dry while hiking, the youphoria would be a convenient size whereas the rainleaf would be much too large and hang low/ get in the way. Other reviews said the big rainleaf can double as a blanket, but I personally feel it is only minimally warm (the thick material is soft and comfortable as a towel, but really doesn't conform well to the body for trapping heat). I would never intend to use this as a blanket and it would be little help as such in a cold-weather emergency. For roadtrips and other travel where you do not have to carry everything you own for +5 miles a day without a basecamp to leave stuff at, the Rainleaf is great and will be my pick for any beach/pool/SCUBA diving/ Kayaking type trips. It is heavier than my Youphoria and takes up about the space of 2 12oz plastic water bottles, but rolled up the Rainleaf is still smaller than my smallest regular towel and weighs about as much as a paperback book. I love that it is long enough to lay my entire body on without my toes or head reaching past the edge and wide enough to comfortably share with a significant other. The rainleaf is beautiful on both sides (bright rainbow on one side and midnight purple on the other) and if I want to hide the logo I can just lay on that part or make it the overlapping part when the towel is around me. I would not want to use my small, boring (plain gray) youphoria at the beach, as there would not be enough room for one person to sunbathe without their feet in the sand, and it is too narrow to share. If I just came out of the water feel cold, I would prefer the Rainleaf's larger surface to dry me and block wind over the sparser coverage of the Youphoria. Other notes: I am really impressed with Youphoria's customer service and mission as a small company. The Youphoria has a hanging loop with a snap sewn onto a corner for drying while the rainleaf does not, but corner-to-corner across the towels are both too long to hang in this manner anyway without dragging on the ground, so it is all the same to me. I will just use a binder clip or other method to secure the towels along the center of their long edge if I need to clip them up to dry. Both towels come in a variety of solid colors and you can also select hem color in the Youphoria- as far a I can tell the only printed option between them is the rainbow Rainleaf. Overall, I am very happy with both towels and I hope you find this review helpful!

The best camp towel! They roll up really small and come with a washcloth. They dry quickly and are great quality. I ordered them in six colors for all of my children and camp guests.

Lived in a Honda Odyssey van for 6 weeks. Showered at fitness centers while I traveled. While certainly not a cotton towel, this did a good job drying me off. I would then place it somewhere in the van to dry out. Dries pretty fast. Very good for this applicatoin.