Best Travel Pants for Men in 2026: What I Wear, and What Wears Out First

I'm Laurence, a professional travel photographer since 2010. Jess and I write this site from our own travels.I’ve been a full-time travel photographer since 2010, and a large part of that time has been spent walking, kneeling on pavements for a low angle, and folding myself into economy seats in the same few pairs of pants. I’m British but I live in the US, so the sizing and the prices in this guide are American ones. If you’re reading from the UK, yes, these are trousers, and everything below still applies other than the name. Potatoes, potatoes. For a city trip where one pair has to do everything, buy the Bluffworks Envoy Lightweight Travel Pant. For hot and humid weather, the Bluffworks Ascender Chino has the lightest fabric of anything here. If the trip leans toward trails, the prAna Stretch Zion Standard Pant is the pair I’d pick, and if you’re going to live in jeans regardless of what I say, the Bluffworks Departure Jeans 3.0 are the pair built for it. What I actually travel in is a bit less tidy than that. It’s a mix of Levi’s jeans, chinos from Haggar and Dockers, linen pants from Quince, and various pairs from Columbia and Patagonia (I love Patagonia gear), plus five pairs...