Springbar
- Headquarters
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Manufacturing
- Salt Lake City, UT · Overseas (China, per press; the brand says only "Imported")
- Categories
- sports-and-outdoors
Springbar is the canvas tent Jack Kirkham Sr. designed in Salt Lake City in 1961. His canvas business, first the AAA Tent & Awning shop and later Kirkham’s Outdoor Products, had been cutting and sewing canvas in the city since 1944. The tents are still cut and sewn there, since 2019 in a workshop on South West Temple. A 2022 Outside magazine visit counted about twenty people on the sewing floor.
The catalogue has two lines, and Springbar labels them. The “Springbar USA” tents (Traveler, Vagabond, Compact, Outfitter, Family Camper, Ranger and Skyliner) carry “Cut & sewn in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA” on their product pages, and their spec tables place the other parts in the US too: poles machined in Salt Lake City, stake loops from Chicago, stakes from Missouri, zippers made in the USA. The canvas is dyed and finished in Georgia, but the pages don’t say where it is woven. That is why those tents are listed at the second mark rather than the first.
The “Springbar Imports” line (the Classic Jack tents, the Leisure Port and some accessories) is marked “Imported.” Outside reported that these models are made in China. Because the name covers both lines, the brand sits at the imported mark and only the Salt Lake City tents are listed below. Check the menu heading or the origin line before you buy.
The record
The company has made the Springbar tent in Salt Lake City since 1961, and also sells an imported line
“Since 1961 we have been proud to manufacture the original Springbar® Canvas Tent in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.”
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The imported models are labelled as imported on their product pages
“Imported.”
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The business has cut and sewn canvas in Salt Lake City since 1944, and the workshop moved to West Temple in 2019
“Canvas Products Cut & Sewn in Salt Lake City, Utah Since 1944”
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A 2022 Outside magazine factory visit found about 20 people sewing tents in Salt Lake City and confirmed some models are made in China
“There were about 20 employees on the floor, a mix of old-timers who’ve been with Springbar for decades, arts-and-craftsy young people, and immigrants of all ages from Chile, Uganda, and Afghanistan.”
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Domain record
springbar.com was registered on .It dates the domain, not the business: a maker that moved to a new address reads young here, and an old domain says nothing about who holds it now.
RDAP registry record · checked 19 Sep 2026
Products
Where to buySkyliner 10' x 14' Hot Tent
Assembled in USAThis item carries a different mark from Springbar as a whole, so it has its own record.
The product page says the Skyliner is cut and sewn in Salt Lake City
“Cut & sewn in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.”
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Where to buyTraveler 10' x 10' Canvas Tent
Assembled in USAThis item carries a different mark from Springbar as a whole, so it has its own record.
The product page says the Traveler is cut and sewn in Salt Lake City
“Cut & sewn in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.”
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The poles are machined in Salt Lake City
“Aluminum alloy poles with steel reinforcements, tempered spring steel tension rods. Machined and fabricated in Salt Lake City, USA.”
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Where to buyVagabond 8' x 10' Canvas Tent
Assembled in USAThis item carries a different mark from Springbar as a whole, so it has its own record.
The product page says the Vagabond is cut and sewn in Salt Lake City
“Cut & sewn in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.”
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