Best Saunas in Minneapolis, United States
612 Sauna Cooperative
The 612 Sauna Cooperative, formed in 2016, is the first community-owned and operated mobile sauna in the United States. Its 24-foot cedar-lined sauna, heated by a Minnesota-made Kuuma wood stove and seating 8 to 10, moves between residencies such as the Trailhead at Theodore Wirth Park, Cedar Lake and Lake Nokomis. Hosted 90-minute community sessions of self-guided hot and cool rounds cost $38 a seat; Aufguss-guided and silent sessions run too, and private bookings for up to 12 start at $330.
Awaken For Wellness
Awaken For Wellness is a holistic wellness center on St. Clair Avenue in Saint Paul offering float therapy, full-spectrum infrared saunas, ONYX red light, cold plunge and massage. Each infrared session takes place in a private room, generally for 30 to 45 minutes, at $40 with a $20 cold plunge add-on; an additional guest may join for $10. Staffed hours are Tuesday to Friday 9 AM to 9 PM and weekends 9 AM to 7 PM, with all-access infrared sauna available from 5 AM to 11 PM daily.
Little Ember Co
Little Ember Co runs two wood-fired mobile saunas on the shore of Cedar Lake at Cedar Lake Point Beach in Minneapolis. From November to March, Thursday to Sunday, guests book a community seat for a 75-minute session of sauna rounds broken up by winter air, snow angels, icy water over the head or a dip in the lake. A single seat costs $35 for guests 18 and over, and both saunas can be rented privately for $299 for up to 10 people; workshops, birthdays and seasonal events are also hosted.
PORTAL° Thermaculture
PORTAL° is a contrast therapy social club in the West Maka Ska neighborhood of Minneapolis, close to Bde Maka Ska. The indoor-outdoor space pairs electric and wood-fired saunas with a communal cold plunge pool, locker rooms, showers and social lounges. Single sessions are sold as credits at $32.50 alongside memberships, and guests must be 18 or older. Open daily: from 6 AM Monday to Wednesday, from noon on Thursday, and until 11 PM on Friday and Saturday.
Sauna Strong
Sauna Strong is a sauna and recovery studio in the Linden Hills area of southwest Minneapolis. It runs a community traditional dry sauna plus community and private infrared saunas in 45-minute sessions, an infrared wellness pod, red light therapy, cold therapy and 2,500 square feet of open gym. Drop-ins start at $20 for the community dry sauna and $24 for community infrared, booked through the Mindbody app. Open Monday to Friday 5:30 AM to 8 PM, Saturday 8 AM to 6 PM and Sunday 10 AM to 5 PM.
Saunable
Saunable operates a hand-crafted wood-fired mobile sauna at Schulze Lake Beach in Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan, south of the Twin Cities. Hosted 75-minute sessions allow a few heat-cool cycles, with the sauna kept around 180 to 190°F and the lake serving as the cold plunge; changing facilities, hydration stations and a bonfire area are on site. Social sessions are limited to eight people aged 14 and over, and private group bookings take up to ten.
Relaxing Healthy Center
Relaxing Healthy Center in Bloomington is Minnesota's first Chinese day spa, inspired by Korean jjimjilbang culture. Five themed dry saunas – Gold Tourmaline, Yellow Clay Ball, Pink Himalayan Salt, Black Tourmaline and the hottest Nano room – sit beside clothing-optional wet areas with hot tubs and a steam room, resting areas, massage and the Northern Kitchen restaurant. Day passes cost $40 to $58; walk-ins welcome. Open 10 AM to 10 PM in fall and winter, to 10:30 PM in spring and summer.
Watershed Spa
Watershed is a communal bathhouse in the historic Switch House beside the Mississippi River in Northeast Minneapolis. Guests follow a seven-step ritual of shower, soak, steam, sauna, cold plunge, reset and repeat across a hot pool, steam room, dry sauna and cold plunge pool, with spa treatments, salt scrubs and private gatherings for up to 30 guests also on offer. A 2.5-hour bath experience costs $63; swimsuits are worn and guests must be 18 or over. Open daily 9 AM to 11 PM, last entry 9 PM.
Blaisdell YMCA
The Blaisdell YMCA in South Minneapolis is a community fitness center of the YMCA of the North with a sauna accessed from the pool deck, a whirlpool and a 25-yard lap pool with depths from 3 to 9½ feet, plus fitness equipment, gymnasium space for basketball and volleyball, youth programs and personal training. Access is by membership; area residents can request a free five-day trial pass, and members get guest passes for friends. Open Monday to Friday 5 AM to 9 PM and weekends 7 AM to 5 PM.
Anda Spa at Hotel Ivy
Anda Spa, whose name is Swedish for spirit, occupies Hotel Ivy, a Luxury Collection hotel in downtown Minneapolis. Beyond massages and facials, its amenities include a Crystal Sauna, dry sauna, eucalyptus steam rooms, a heated hydrotherapy whirlpool and two lounges. Amenities are open to guests who book a treatment, to non-hotel guests via a scheduled Gemstone Journey, and to locals via annual membership. Open Monday to Thursday 9 AM to 7 PM and Friday to Sunday 9 AM to 8 PM; ages 16 and up.
Hewing Hotel Rooftop Sauna
High atop the Hewing Hotel in Minneapolis' North Loop sits a custom-built true dry sauna in the Nordic tradition, with three tiers of cedar benches and two windows framing the downtown skyline, paired with a heated outdoor rooftop spa pool open year-round. The rooftop is reserved for hotel guests, but a Rooftop Sauna & Spa Pool Day Pass is sold through Tock for Sunday to Thursday, 11 AM to 5 PM, for guests 21 and over, and Thermaculture hosts 90-minute guided sessions on Thursday evenings.
Idlewild Spa at Omni Viking Lakes Hotel
Idlewild Spa is a 7,000-square-foot Nordic-inspired spa inside the Omni Viking Lakes Hotel in Eagan, south-east of Minneapolis. Guided by Finnish-style thermotherapy, guests cycle heat, cool and relax through a sauna, steam room, ice fountain and deluge shower, a Himalayan salt relaxation room and a hot tub on a 1,300-square-foot deck with firepits, alongside massages and body treatments. Closed Mondays; open from 11:30 AM Tuesday, 9:30 AM Wednesday to Friday and 8:30 AM at weekends.
612 Sauna Cooperative
The 612 Sauna Cooperative, formed in 2016, is the first community-owned and operated mobile sauna in the United States. Its 24-foot cedar-lined sauna, heated by a Minnesota-made Kuuma wood stove and seating 8 to 10, moves between residencies such as the Trailhead at Theodore Wirth Park, Cedar Lake and Lake Nokomis. Hosted 90-minute community sessions of self-guided hot and cool rounds cost $38 a seat; Aufguss-guided and silent sessions run too, and private bookings for up to 12 start at $330.
Awaken For Wellness
Awaken For Wellness is a holistic wellness center on St. Clair Avenue in Saint Paul offering float therapy, full-spectrum infrared saunas, ONYX red light, cold plunge and massage. Each infrared session takes place in a private room, generally for 30 to 45 minutes, at $40 with a $20 cold plunge add-on; an additional guest may join for $10. Staffed hours are Tuesday to Friday 9 AM to 9 PM and weekends 9 AM to 7 PM, with all-access infrared sauna available from 5 AM to 11 PM daily.
Little Ember Co
Little Ember Co runs two wood-fired mobile saunas on the shore of Cedar Lake at Cedar Lake Point Beach in Minneapolis. From November to March, Thursday to Sunday, guests book a community seat for a 75-minute session of sauna rounds broken up by winter air, snow angels, icy water over the head or a dip in the lake. A single seat costs $35 for guests 18 and over, and both saunas can be rented privately for $299 for up to 10 people; workshops, birthdays and seasonal events are also hosted.
PORTAL° Thermaculture
PORTAL° is a contrast therapy social club in the West Maka Ska neighborhood of Minneapolis, close to Bde Maka Ska. The indoor-outdoor space pairs electric and wood-fired saunas with a communal cold plunge pool, locker rooms, showers and social lounges. Single sessions are sold as credits at $32.50 alongside memberships, and guests must be 18 or older. Open daily: from 6 AM Monday to Wednesday, from noon on Thursday, and until 11 PM on Friday and Saturday.
Sauna Strong
Sauna Strong is a sauna and recovery studio in the Linden Hills area of southwest Minneapolis. It runs a community traditional dry sauna plus community and private infrared saunas in 45-minute sessions, an infrared wellness pod, red light therapy, cold therapy and 2,500 square feet of open gym. Drop-ins start at $20 for the community dry sauna and $24 for community infrared, booked through the Mindbody app. Open Monday to Friday 5:30 AM to 8 PM, Saturday 8 AM to 6 PM and Sunday 10 AM to 5 PM.
Saunable
Saunable operates a hand-crafted wood-fired mobile sauna at Schulze Lake Beach in Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan, south of the Twin Cities. Hosted 75-minute sessions allow a few heat-cool cycles, with the sauna kept around 180 to 190°F and the lake serving as the cold plunge; changing facilities, hydration stations and a bonfire area are on site. Social sessions are limited to eight people aged 14 and over, and private group bookings take up to ten.
Relaxing Healthy Center
Relaxing Healthy Center in Bloomington is Minnesota's first Chinese day spa, inspired by Korean jjimjilbang culture. Five themed dry saunas – Gold Tourmaline, Yellow Clay Ball, Pink Himalayan Salt, Black Tourmaline and the hottest Nano room – sit beside clothing-optional wet areas with hot tubs and a steam room, resting areas, massage and the Northern Kitchen restaurant. Day passes cost $40 to $58; walk-ins welcome. Open 10 AM to 10 PM in fall and winter, to 10:30 PM in spring and summer.
Watershed Spa
Watershed is a communal bathhouse in the historic Switch House beside the Mississippi River in Northeast Minneapolis. Guests follow a seven-step ritual of shower, soak, steam, sauna, cold plunge, reset and repeat across a hot pool, steam room, dry sauna and cold plunge pool, with spa treatments, salt scrubs and private gatherings for up to 30 guests also on offer. A 2.5-hour bath experience costs $63; swimsuits are worn and guests must be 18 or over. Open daily 9 AM to 11 PM, last entry 9 PM.
Blaisdell YMCA
The Blaisdell YMCA in South Minneapolis is a community fitness center of the YMCA of the North with a sauna accessed from the pool deck, a whirlpool and a 25-yard lap pool with depths from 3 to 9½ feet, plus fitness equipment, gymnasium space for basketball and volleyball, youth programs and personal training. Access is by membership; area residents can request a free five-day trial pass, and members get guest passes for friends. Open Monday to Friday 5 AM to 9 PM and weekends 7 AM to 5 PM.
Anda Spa at Hotel Ivy
Anda Spa, whose name is Swedish for spirit, occupies Hotel Ivy, a Luxury Collection hotel in downtown Minneapolis. Beyond massages and facials, its amenities include a Crystal Sauna, dry sauna, eucalyptus steam rooms, a heated hydrotherapy whirlpool and two lounges. Amenities are open to guests who book a treatment, to non-hotel guests via a scheduled Gemstone Journey, and to locals via annual membership. Open Monday to Thursday 9 AM to 7 PM and Friday to Sunday 9 AM to 8 PM; ages 16 and up.
Hewing Hotel Rooftop Sauna
High atop the Hewing Hotel in Minneapolis' North Loop sits a custom-built true dry sauna in the Nordic tradition, with three tiers of cedar benches and two windows framing the downtown skyline, paired with a heated outdoor rooftop spa pool open year-round. The rooftop is reserved for hotel guests, but a Rooftop Sauna & Spa Pool Day Pass is sold through Tock for Sunday to Thursday, 11 AM to 5 PM, for guests 21 and over, and Thermaculture hosts 90-minute guided sessions on Thursday evenings.
Idlewild Spa at Omni Viking Lakes Hotel
Idlewild Spa is a 7,000-square-foot Nordic-inspired spa inside the Omni Viking Lakes Hotel in Eagan, south-east of Minneapolis. Guided by Finnish-style thermotherapy, guests cycle heat, cool and relax through a sauna, steam room, ice fountain and deluge shower, a Himalayan salt relaxation room and a hot tub on a 1,300-square-foot deck with firepits, alongside massages and body treatments. Closed Mondays; open from 11:30 AM Tuesday, 9:30 AM Wednesday to Friday and 8:30 AM at weekends.