These days, travelers have tons of options, from sand-repelling beach towels to ingenious designs that fold up into totes.

When it’s time to pack up and head home, you may work hard to get every grain of sand off of your towels, cooler, the kids ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Tesalate towel is made from a special microfiber, called AbsorbLite, which is meant to repel sand. The makers say the towel is engineered to dry in "half the ...