Saunas with Cold Plunge

Modern wood-fired sauna experience in Bergen with fjord and mountain views.

Urban floating sauna at the Oslo Opera waterfront with stunning harbor views.

Iconic floating sauna on the Oslo waterfront with fjord views and cultural events.

Award-winning public sauna by the sea with stunning architecture and restaurant.

Northern Europe's largest spa and wellness center with 11 different saunas and baths.

Community-driven floating sauna in Bergen's harbor. Affordable and authentic.

Small family-run hotel and restaurant in Wertheim, with private winery tours, vineyard terrace and buffet breakfast at the Main-Tauber confluence.

Snow room, sauna and aufguss inside Bergen's historic 1862 stock exchange.

Long-established family hotel in Hövelhof with two restaurants, a garden terrace and a sauna — a calm Senne-region base for cyclists and celebrations.

Family hotel in Salzhausen in the Lüneburg Heath with an indoor pool, sauna and spa services — a calm heathland base for walkers and cyclists.

Hotel in Höxter on the river Weser with a full-service spa, sauna, steam room, hot tub and indoor pool — a Weserbergland base near Corvey Abbey.

Kneipp-Bund spa hotel in Bad Lauterberg with full-service spa, sauna, steam room and indoor pool — Harz mountain Kur town with hiking and Brocken folklore.

Serious sauna ritual with aufguss and snow room in central Bergen — drop-in welcome (595 NOK).

Three-floor Bristol Spa with classic + infrared saunas, snow room, and Moorish pool in central Oslo.

Restored 1930s Art Deco bathhouse + Oslo's first rooftop pool and sauna.

Artesia Spa with sauna, steam and pool next to Oslo's Holmenkollen ski jump. Largest hotel gym in the Nordics.

1,400 m² Britannia Spa with Nordic sauna, infrared cabin, mineral pool and lap pool in central Trondheim.

Dry sauna + steam room + ice shower in an 1858 heritage hotel at Kristiansand's center.

Historic fjord hotel south of Bergen with glass sauna over Bjørnefjorden, 88m heated infinity pool and classic Norwegian spa.

The Nordic region's most iconic sea spa by the Kattegat – with cold-water bathing, Finnish saunas and sea views.

Wood-fired sauna over the tidal flat at a fly-in Alaska wilderness lodge — James Beard-quality cuisine beside Kachemak Bay.

The most remote luxury lodge in North America — wood-fired sauna 6,000 feet up in the Alaska Range on Denali's glacier cirque.

Legendary wilderness camp in Denali National Park with direct views of North America's highest peak, wood-fired sauna, and naturalist programming

America's top-ranked destination wellness resort in the Sonoran Desert foothills with Finnish sauna, desert heat rituals, and all-inclusive mindfulness programming

Nordic barrel saunas amid working Napa Valley vineyards at Four Seasons' most wine-immersive resort.

Nordic sauna and cold plunge at 7,800 feet in the Eastern Sierra — Mammoth's design-forward mountain retreat.

Wood-fired outdoor sauna and natural hot mineral pools at a clothing-optional desert resort above Palm Springs.

Bavarian-family-owned alpine luxury hotel in the heart of Vail Village. Finnish sauna with cold plunge, Turkish steam room, oxygen bar for altitude acclimatization, and tsunami showers. Michelin Guide listed.

Ski-in/ski-out on Beaver Creek Mountain at 8,100 feet. 21,000 sq ft spa with men's, women's, and co-ed 'Grotto' complexes — each with sauna, steam room, and cold and hot plunge pools. AAA Five Diamond.

Natural geothermal hot springs and sauna at the base of 14,197-foot Mount Princeton in the Collegiate Peaks.

Remote East Maui retreat at the end of the legendary Hana Highway with Hawaiian healing spa, sauna, and rainforest immersion on the rainiest coast in the Pacific

Forbes Five Star lava-field resort on the Big Island's Kohala Coast with Hawaiian spa, sauna, swimming with manta rays, and volcanic landscape immersion

Oceanfront resort with spa sauna and dune access on Crescent Beach, 20 minutes from Portland.

Full Nordic circuit spa on the Keweenaw Peninsula with a 22-person wood-fired Finnish panoramic sauna four feet from an active ski slope. Largest outdoor hot tub in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Top-100 spa resort near Traverse City with a cold plunge ritual including dry sauna, steam shower, and indoor/outdoor pools in a 100,000 sq ft health club.

Five-star hotel with a guided 75-minute Nordic sauna ritual on a private 4th-floor rooftop terrace. Led by Cedar + Stone specialists.

Award-winning waterfront resort in Duluth with a floating sauna barge on Lake Superior. Guided by Cedar + Stone specialists.

The world's only Forbes Five Star ranch resort — spa sauna and cold plunge in Rock Creek canyon, Montana.

Wood-fired Finnish sauna on a 37,000-acre Montana wilderness ranch — America's greatest luxury glamping estate.

Forbes Five Star and Relais & Châteaux adults-only Montana wilderness lodge with outdoor sauna in the Bitterroot.

Forbes Four Star resort on Lake Tahoe's Nevada shore with spa sauna, private beach on North America's clearest large lake, and one of the most scenic golf courses on the continent

Nevada's oldest operating resort since 1862 in Genoa — natural geothermal hot springs pools, wood-fired sauna, Carson Valley ranching landscape, and the Eastern Sierra's oldest settlement

Russian banya deep inside Midtown Manhattan — Aman's most exclusive urban sanctuary.

Japanese-inspired wellness sanctuary in the Hamptons with outdoor sauna and meditation gardens.

Architect-designed forest cabins in the Catskills with outdoor sauna and cold plunge ritual.

Hudson Valley golf and wellness resort with sauna, cold plunge, and 200 acres of meadow and forest.

Catskills mountain retreat with outdoor Scandinavian barrel sauna and year-round cold plunge creek.

Wood-fired Estonian sauna — the rarest sauna tradition in North America — in a Catskills mountain compound.

Reimagined mountain estate in the Blue Ridge at 3,600 feet with wood-fired sauna, mountain lake, and the most spectacular autumn foliage in the American East

Portland's only underground thermal spa hotel in the Alberta Arts District. Subterranean mineral pools, dry sauna, steam room, cold plunge, and ice. LEED Platinum certified.

Oregon Wine Country's premier luxury resort in the Willamette Valley. JORY Spa with Finnish dry sauna, eucalyptus steam, and cold plunge — surrounded by Pinot Noir vineyards.

Award-winning luxury coastal lodge above Pelican Beach at Cape Kiwanda. The spa features a Finnish sauna and Scandinavian-inspired hydrotherapy circuit overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Haystack Rock.

Natural hot springs resort and spa in Ashland near the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Finnish sauna, geothermal pools, clothing-optional evening hours, and camping/lodge accommodations.

Newly opened boutique hotel in Hood River (2024) with rooftop sauna and cold plunge overlooking the Columbia River Gorge. Windsurfing and kiteboarding capital of North America as backdrop.

Adults-only Alpine wellness hotel in Leavenworth with the most extensive European sauna circuit in Washington: 7 saunas and steam rooms including wood-lined Finnish sauna, herbal steam, and alder-wood circular sauna.

Wisconsin's only AAA Five Diamond hotel. The Kohler Waters Spa features Finnish sauna, steam rooms, and a cold-water immersion pool. Attached to the Kohler factory village — a UNESCO Creative City of Design.

Adults-only zen wellness retreat in the Wisconsin Dells forest. Finnish sauna, eucalyptus steam room, cold plunge, and a 12,000 sq ft spa — the only true luxury resort spa in the Dells.

Healing arts retreat center on Lake Superior near Bayfield and the Apostle Islands. Wood-fired outdoor sauna with cold Lake Superior plunge — Scandinavian sauna culture in Wisconsin's most remote North Shore setting.

New Hampshire's grand Victorian resort since 1865 in the northern White Mountains with 360-degree Presidential Range panorama, Nordic spa sauna, and preserved Grand Hotel era elegance

Sauna and alpine wellness at Falkensteiner Hotel Falkensteinerhof in Valles, South Tyrol. Guest access alongside indoor pool, treatment rooms, and panoramic mountain views.