Earn extra store credit for your shoes, snow and camp gear!
Trading out last year's gear for the next step up? Why not help the Earth a bit while you're at it? Save your gear from landfills and earn up to double the average valuation for your used team sports gear, tennis, shoes and camping gear when you trade in with SB Pre-Loved! Start your trade-in by clicking that pretty green button:
what does "sustainable" even mean in 2024?
At this point, pretty much every brand in the outdoor industry touts their eco-friendliness in some form or another. But which brands are hiding behind a leaf-shaped icon (insiders call this greenwashing) and which brands walk the walk? We're here to help you untangle it all and show you the brands we respect the most, who are building gear that lasts, is manufactured safely, and with materials that don't harm the Earth. If that ain't sustainable, we don't know what is!
adventure with SB outdoors
This is the summer to check "Summit Half Dome" off your bucketlist, and we're here to help. SB Outdoors has got all the details handled from routes to permits (and food! Let's not forget the food) so all you have to do is load up your pack (we can help with that part too, and yes, backpacking rentals are available) and meet us in Yosemite. That glow-y feeling of accomplishment will last you 'til 2025, guaranteed.
Join us on a group run or ride!
Weekly group runs and rides are back at (almost all) Sports Basement stores! Join us and many of your like-minded neighborhood fellows to explore your community on foot or on two wheels, while we challenge and support each other's fitness goals. It's pretty the best part of our week, so we feel pretty confident that you'll have a blast, too! Click that green button below to get dates and times for a store near you.
3 itineraries to re-discover the presidio
By Jessica Grant, Creative Director
For many of us in the Bay Area, the Presidio of San Francisco is our closest National Park, but we often forget about it when we're thinking up weekend plans (well, not us - we work here. But maybe you do. At least, that's the assumption in this article). No longer! The Presidio has had one heck of a makeover recently and it keeps on getting better. And, if we do say so ourselves, Sports Basement is the absolute best way to start any Presidio adventure. Here are three newly updated full-day itineraries to get your imagination going!
