[1] The company was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and two University of California, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley and Eric Reynolds, who shared the common goal of making their own mountaineering equipment.

[citation needed] After Jarden was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid in 2016,[2] Marmot was spun off from K2 and K2 Sports was sold to Kohlberg & Company in 2017.

[3] In 1976, Marmot ventured on another new business opportunity when Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates.

Within a couple of weeks, Marmot had sewn prototype sleeping bags using the then-new Gore-Tex fabric for field testing.

Now based in Rohnert Park, California, Marmot is globally distributed and part of the Newell Brands.