In Colorado
The Silver Birch Mobile Horse Trailer Sauna – Jeff transformed a horse trailer into a sauna. See it at the 2022 Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival in Nederland, CO. March 19 – 20, 2022.
Layfayette, CO – After visiting Finland in 2018, Sarah’s husband built a beautiful backyard sauna. She saunas 2-3 times a week in the winter.
Tabernash, CO – Jeff and his family built a cabin in the mountains near Tabernash and they built a sauna too.
Lafayette, CO – Mini Garage Sauna – About 6 years ago Jeff helped a friend build a makeshift sauna in his garage on an elevated 4×8 sheet of plywood. Later his friend wanted to refine the makeshift sauna and they built a “mini” sauna in an elevated storage space in his garage. The “mini” is tricked out with a 3KW electric heater, sliding barn door and a secret hatch to hoist up essential sauna beverages and grilled sausages.
Tent Sauna
This is so AWESOME! Sauna just about anywhere. Jeff is a banya aficionado, and this lives up to any expecation he could have. The tent sauna came from Russia in 2 packages and is well made and easy to put together.
Around the U.S.
Loyly – Portland, Oregon
A beautiful spa with minimalist Nordic design inspired by public saunas in Finland. Their NE Portland location has two large saunas that each hold about 15 people. Massage and other body work treatments are available.
Hewing Hotel, Minneapolis, MN
The coolest hotel rooftop sauna in the US. The Hewing is in the heart of the warehouse district and has a spa pool and large sauna on the roof. The views of the sunset are spectacular.
Grand Island, Michigan
A high school friend of Sarah’s has a summer cottage on Grand Island which is surrounded by Lake Superior and it has a sauna. Her family is Finno-Swedish American. Finno-Swedes are Finnish citizens who have Swedish heritage, about 5.2% of the Finnish population.
Finland
Rauhaniemen – Tampere, Finland
Built in 1926, this large public sauna holds about 30-40 people and is perched on the edge of lake Näsijärvi (jarvi is lake in Finnish.) Sarah was there on a cold, drizzly, windy June day in 2018 and that was perfect sauna weather. There are stairs going in to the lake and a diving board to jump off.
Lehtisaari – Jyvaskyla, Finland – This quaint island has a sauna that is open from June to August and is free to the public. Row boats meet visitors on the mainland and row over to the island on the hour. There are picnic tables and grills, so take some sausages to cook while you are there.
SaunaLautta – Jyvaskyla, Finland
Floating Sauna! While Sarah did not use this outfit for her floating sauna experience, this website shows the lake she was on and a similar experience to the one she had with friends in Jyvaskyla.
Lappajarvi (Lake Lappa) – Finland
Jeff’s Finnish friend has a summer cottage, as most Finns do, that sits next to a lake and of course there is a sauna. This sauna is special – it’s a savu sauna, a smoke sauna. Savu sauna is the most traditional type of Finnish sauna and rarer than regular wood fired saunas. It is considered a real honor to be invited to a savu sauna.
Loyly – Helsinki, Finland
Sleek. Urban. Hip. Completed in 2016, this sauna and restaurant complex sits on the Baltic Sea two kilometers from the city center. One of the owners is Finnish actor Jasper Pääkkönen. He played Felix Kendrickson in BlacKkKlansman.
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