Bathhouses and Social Saunas in the US
58 bathhouses and social saunas in 19 US cities, from century-old steam baths to new Nordic-style sauna clubs. Day passes start at $29 where a price is published, and each listing shows the saunas, the cold pools and the house rules.
| City | Places | Cheapest day pass |
|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake City | 11 | $45 |
| New York City | 10 | $39 |
| San Francisco | 4 | $49 |
| Portland | 4 | – |
| New Jersey | 3 | $110 |
| Minneapolis | 3 | – |
| Denver | 3 | $32 |
| Philadelphia | 3 | $29 |
| Nashville | 3 | – |
| Chicago | 2 | $50 |
| Milwaukee | 2 | – |
| Austin | 2 | – |
| Charlotte | 2 | – |
| San Diego | 1 | – |
| Seattle | 1 | – |
| Boston | 1 | – |
| Washington, DC | 1 | $130 |
| Houston | 1 | – |
| Detroit | 1 | $40 |
Bathhouses in Salt Lake City
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Avanto Cold Plunge & Sauna
Park City
A Kimball Junction contrast therapy spa named for the Finnish word for an ice-swimming hole, with a cedar Nordic sauna, two cold plunge tubs, an infrared sauna and a red light booth.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plunge198°F40°FSession $39
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Glow SLC
A European-style bathhouse in Salt Lake City with a sauna, steam room, cold plunge pool and warm soaking pool, plus a studio for yoga, breathwork and sound sessions.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plungeCo-edDay pass $45
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Löyly Nordic Spa Downtown Salt Lake City
A Utah-grown social sauna club built around a big Finnish sauna and a row of individual cold plunge tubs, where you walk in without an appointment and stay as long as you like.
BathhouseTraditional saunaContrast therapyCold plungeCo-ed200°FNo plunge -
Löyly Nordic Spa Fort Union
Midvale
A Utah-grown social sauna club built around a big Finnish sauna and a row of individual cold plunge tubs, where you walk in without an appointment and stay as long as you like.
BathhouseTraditional saunaContrast therapyCold plungeCo-ed200°FNo plunge -
Löyly Nordic Spa Orem
Orem
A Utah-grown social sauna club built around a big Finnish sauna and a row of individual cold plunge tubs, where you walk in without an appointment and stay as long as you like.
BathhouseTraditional saunaContrast therapyCold plungeCo-ed200°FNo plunge -
PLUNJ Draper
Draper
A Draper studio from the PLUNJ chain where guests book an hour of unlimited rounds between a dry sauna and a shared cold plunge pool.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plunge190°F45°F
Bathhouses in New York City
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AIRE Ancient Baths Tribeca
Manhattan
Candlelit Roman-style thermal baths in an 1883 textile factory in Tribeca, with warm, hot, cold and salt-float baths, a jet bath and aromatherapy steam rooms on a timed, booked visit.
BathhouseCold plungeHeat57°F -
Bathhouse Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn
Bathhouse's third New York location, in a former newspaper factory on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, built around an event sauna for 100-plus people that hosted the 2026 US Aufguss finals.
BathhouseCold plungeAufguss -
Bathhouse Flatiron
Manhattan
Bathhouse's 35,000-square-foot Manhattan location in a former underground garage, with a slate banya, a large event sauna for Aufguss, hot, neutral, salt and cold pools, a steam room and a restaurant.
BathhouseCold plungeAufguss195°F45°FDay pass $39
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Bathhouse Williamsburg
Brooklyn
The original Bathhouse, set below a former 1930s soda factory in Williamsburg, with thermal pools from 52°F to 104°F, a tropical sauna, a dry sauna, a steam room and a restaurant upstairs.
BathhouseCold plungeHeat52°FDay pass $40
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Brooklyn Bathhouse
Brooklyn
A Black-owned bathhouse on Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens with a Finnish dry sauna, a wet sauna, a steam room, hot and neutral pools, a cold plunge and a pizza and pasta café.
BathhouseCold plungeDay pass $50
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cityWell Brooklyn
Brooklyn
A small Gowanus spa with a backyard cedar sauna, a cold plunge, a heated soaking tub and an aromatherapy steam room, used in 90-minute community or private hydrotherapy sessions.
BathhouseOutdoor saunaCold plungeSession $45
Bathhouses in San Francisco
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Alchemy Springs
An urban sauna garden in Lower Nob Hill built around a 40-person communal sauna with immersive sound and lighting, with cold plunge tubs, open-air showers, thermal benches and a fire pit.
BathhouseOutdoor saunaContrast therapyCold plunge -
Archimedes Banya
A four-story Russian bathhouse in Bayview with two stove-heated parilka rooms, a very hot Finnish sauna, a Turkish steam room, an ice-cold plunge, a roof deck and a cafe with a Russian-leaning menu.
BanyaBathhouseHammamCold plungeAufgussCo-ed220°FNo plunge -
Kabuki Springs & Spa
A Japanese-style communal bathhouse in Japantown, open since 1968, with a hot pool, a cold plunge, a dry sauna and a steam room in a quiet, phone-free setting.
BathhouseCold plungeDay pass $49
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Onsen SF
A Japanese-inspired communal bathhouse in the Tenderloin with a redwood sauna, a steam room, a cold rain shower and a 15-person soaking pool, plus a small restaurant for a meal after the bath.
BathhouseSession $50
Bathhouses in Portland
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Cascada Thermal Springs
A thermal bathhouse beneath a hotel in the Alberta Arts District, with a silent underground Sanctuary of warm and mineral pools, saunas, steam and a cold plunge, plus a glass-roofed conservatory pool and an outdoor garden.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plungeSession $100
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Common Ground Wellness Cooperative
A worker-member cooperative in Northeast Portland with a clothing-optional saltwater hot pool, a dry cedar sauna and an outdoor cold shower set in a planted open-air courtyard.
BathhouseOutdoor saunaCo-edSession $18
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Knot Springs
A social wellness club on the Central Eastside with a warm pool, a 104°F hot pool, a 47°F cold plunge, a dry sauna and an essential-oil steam room, plus a deck looking over the Willamette and downtown.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plungeHeat47°FSession $69
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The Everett House Community Healing Center
A clothing-optional community bathhouse in two neighboring Craftsman houses in Northeast Portland, with a social sauna, a silent sauna, a steam room, outdoor cold tubs and a hot soaking tub.
BathhouseTraditional saunaCold plungeCo-edSession $18
Bathhouses in New Jersey
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BRC Day Spa & Sauna Resort
Fair Lawn
A Russian-style day spa in Fair Lawn with wet and dry saunas, a Turkish steam room, cold plunges, a lap pool and jacuzzi, and a restaurant and bar for lingering between rounds.
BanyaBathhouseCold plunge -
Exhale Spa + Bathhouse at Ocean Casino Resort
Atlantic City
The bathhouse at Exhale Spa inside Ocean Casino Resort sells day passes to non-guests, with saunas, steam rooms, a jetted pool, a jacuzzi and a Himalayan salt grotto.
Resort spaBathhouseDay pass $120
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SoJo Spa Club
Edgewater
A large Korean-inspired spa on the Hudson in Edgewater with eight themed saunas, an ice room, heated outdoor baths and a rooftop infinity pool that looks across the river to Manhattan.
Korean spaBathhouseCold plungeHeat55°FDay pass $110
Bathhouses in Minneapolis
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Embrace North Marcy-Holmes
A no-frills sauna and cold plunge house in Marcy-Holmes that calls itself the people's bathhouse, with three electric saunas held near 200°F and a shared cold plunge.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plunge200°F40°FSession $28
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PORTAL Minneapolis
A sauna and cold plunge social club in a former Jiffy Lube near the northwest shore of Bde Maka Ska, with two electric saunas, a wood-burning sauna and a 10-by-20-foot cold pool.
BathhouseContrast therapyTraditional saunaCold plungeHeat38°FSession $33
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Watershed Spa
A communal bathhouse by St. Anthony Main built around a soak, sauna, cold plunge and steam circuit, with a Japanese-style hot pool, a cedar sauna and a meditation garden.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plungeCo-edSession $63
Bathhouses in Denver
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Lake Steam Baths
An old-school, family-run Russian-style bathhouse on West Colfax that has been steaming Denver for close to a century, with a steam room, a hot sauna, a hot tub and a cold plunge.
BathhouseBanyaCold plungeSeparate men's and women's areasDay pass $32
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ROK SPAS
A Nordic-style bathhouse two blocks from Union Station, built around a 40-person cedar sauna, a eucalyptus steam room, warm thermal soaking tubs and five cold plunges set at different temperatures.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plungeCo-ed194°F37°FSession $42
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Third Space & Co.
Boulder
A social sauna club in east Boulder with four saunas at different heats, three cold plunges from icy to mild, and a lounge with a reclaimed-wood bar serving non-alcoholic drinks.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plunge230°F38°FSession $30
Bathhouses in Philadelphia
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Bathhouse Philadelphia
The New York bathhouse brand's first location outside NYC, a large coed spa under the Bellevue in Center City with a dry Aufguss sauna, a wood-stove banya, an infrared sauna, a steam room and three thermal pools.
BathhouseBanyaContrast therapyCold plungeAufgussCo-ed195°FNo plungeDay pass $29
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Fusion Spa & Resort
A 29,000-square-foot social spa in the Somerton section of Northeast Philadelphia that combines Finnish, Russian, Turkish and Japanese bathing, with a banya, a hammam, a snow room, indoor and outdoor pools and a full restaurant.
BathhouseBanyaHammamContrast therapyCold plungeHeat45°FDay pass $65
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Southampton Spa
Southampton
A long-running Russian and Turkish bathhouse just north of Philadelphia in Bucks County, with a 190°F Russian bath, a hammam, a salt sauna, a cold plunge pool, a snow room and a restaurant serving Eastern European food.
BanyaHammamBathhouseCold plunge190°F47°FDay pass $70
Bathhouses in Nashville
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Framework Wedgewood-Houston
A social sauna and cold plunge studio in Wedgewood-Houston with seven Finnish-heated saunas, including silent, social, private and outdoor rooms, plus a row of cold tubs and a public cafe upstairs.
BathhouseTraditional saunaContrast therapyCold plunge175°F40°FSession $35
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Holiday Salon & Bathhouse
A Finnish-inspired private bathhouse inside an East Nashville salon, with a saltwater soaking pool kept around 104°F, a Himalayan salt sauna, a steam room and a cold plunge shower, rented by the hour.
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Lolu
An East Nashville social sauna on Main Street built around one big room: a 40-person Finnish dry sauna next to a 20-person cold bath, with a lounge, an espresso bar and guided breathwork classes.
BathhouseTraditional saunaContrast therapyCold plunge195°F40°F
Bathhouses in Chicago
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AIRE Ancient Baths Chicago
A Roman-inspired thermal bath in a restored factory in River West, where guests move through hot, warm, cold and salt-water baths, a steam room, a dry sauna and an outdoor bath with a waterfall.
BathhouseCold plungeSession $175
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Chicago Bath House
A Russian-style bathhouse on Division Street in Wicker Park, formerly known as Red Square Spa, with a banya, steam rooms, a cold plunge, a hot tub and a full Russian restaurant and bar.
BanyaBathhouseCold plungeDay pass $50
Bathhouses in Milwaukee
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Kenosha Steambaths
Kenosha
A historic steam bath in a 1928 building in Kenosha, offering private sauna rooms for up to six people and a men-only common room, run as an old-fashioned neighborhood bathhouse.
BathhouseSession $15
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Saunaday
Madison
A Nordic-inspired thermal bathhouse near the Capitol with two Finnish saunas, a hammam-style steam room, Hinoki cypress soaking tubs and a raised cold plunge pool, built around a self-guided bathing ritual.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plungeHeat54°FSession $55
Bathhouses in Austin
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Ceremony Social Spa
A small communal sauna and cold plunge lounge in a South Lamar bungalow, set around a tree-shaded courtyard with hammocks, with massage, acupuncture and bodywork offered in the front house.
BathhouseContrast therapyCold plungeSession $44
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Sauna House North Loop
A North Loop outpost of the Sauna House brand, built around an outdoor sauna garden with traditional Finnish and wood-burning saunas, cold plunge tubs and heated lounge benches, run as a phone-free space.
BathhouseTraditional saunaContrast therapyCold plungeCo-ed185°F45°F
Bathhouses in Charlotte
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Sauna House Charlotte
The Charlotte home of the Carolina-born Sauna House franchise, a phone-free, coed bathhouse in a restored historic building in Wesley Heights with two traditional saunas, two stainless steel cold plunges, a silent salt room and heated lounge benches.
BathhouseTraditional saunaContrast therapyCold plungeCo-edHeat45°F -
Sunday Hot Springs
A social contrast therapy club in South End, opened in 2025 as Bathhouse CLT, pairing a hot dry sauna and a eucalyptus steam room with a cold plunge, a saltwater soaking pool and a kombucha bar.
BathhouseTraditional saunaContrast therapyCold plunge200°F45°FSession $60
Bathhouses in San Diego
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Fit Social
A beachfront social wellness club at Belmont Park in Mission Beach, pairing saunas and a cold plunge with relaxation lounges, daybeds, cabanas and a full food and drink menu a few steps from the sand.
BathhouseContrast therapy
Bathhouses in Seattle
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Banya 5
A Russian-style bathhouse in South Lake Union built around hot and cold contrast, with a brick parilka, a eucalyptus steam room, a hot pool, a salt-water pool and a cold plunge.
BanyaBathhouseContrast therapyCold plungeSession $70
Bathhouses in Boston
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Moki Sauna South Boston
A Nordic-style social sauna in South Boston from the team behind the Greenway and Somerville pop-ups, with three traditional saunas, an indoor cedar-barrel cold plunge and a courtyard with its own sauna and plunges.
BathhouseTraditional saunaContrast therapyCold plungeCo-ed170°F40°FSession $59
Bathhouses in Washington, DC
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Balian Springs
Alexandria
A 100,000-square-foot wellness social club in a former office building near Alexandria, with 16 hydrotherapy pools, eight specialty sauna rooms from loess clay to an ice igloo, and a heated rooftop pool.
BathhouseCold plungeDay pass $130
Bathhouses in Houston
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Saunawelt European Sauna House
A European-style sauna house in the Clear Lake area near Webster, with a Finnish sauna, a Brechelbad herbal sauna, a steam room, a cold bucket shower, a cool-mist room and guided Aufguss rituals.
BathhouseTraditional saunaAufguss
Bathhouses in Detroit
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The Schvitz
A historic North End bathhouse in a 1918 building, restored and reopened in 2020, with a rock-heated banya, a dry sauna with a Himalayan salt wall, a long cold pool and a restaurant upstairs.
BanyaBathhouseCold plunge200°F46°FDay pass $40
What counts as a bathhouse here
A bathhouse is a place where you buy a day pass or a timed slot and move between several hot and cold rooms with other people: saunas, steam rooms, warm pools and cold pools. Private infrared suites are listed separately under infrared sauna studios.
The new social saunas
Since the early 2020s, a wave of social bathhouses has opened in American cities. New York has the most, with Bathhouse, Othership, AIRE Ancient Baths and others, and Bathhouse also runs a location in Philadelphia. Charlotte is the home of Sauna House, and Salt Lake City has Löyly Nordic Spa's walk-in sauna clubs and PLUNJ's sauna and cold plunge studios around the valley. They are co-ed, swimsuits are usually required, and some run guided sessions or aufguss in the sauna.
The old bathhouses
Many cities also have older bathhouses with Russian, Japanese or European roots. Kabuki Springs & Spa in San Francisco and Lake Steam Baths in Denver have long histories, and Russian banyas keep the hot room, the cold pool and the platza going in New York, Chicago and Boston. The Schvitz in Detroit still runs men's, women's and co-ed sessions.
Co-ed or single-gender, swimsuit or nude
House rules differ more between bathhouses than anywhere else. Some are fully co-ed with swimsuits, some have single-gender days or areas where people go nude. Check the listing before you go, and read our guide to what to wear in a public sauna.
Frequently asked questions
What is a social sauna?
A social sauna is a bathhouse built around a shared sauna and cold plunges, where people come to sweat together rather than for spa treatments. Most are co-ed and require swimsuits.
How much does a bathhouse day pass cost?
Among the bathhouses we list with a published day pass, prices start at $29, with a median of $50. Some sell timed slots instead of a full day.
Do you wear a swimsuit at a bathhouse?
At most new social bathhouses, yes. Some older bathhouses and Korean spas have single-gender areas where people are nude. Each listing shows the rule.
How much does a day pass at one of these bathhouses and social saunas cost in the US?
Of the 16 places we list with a published day pass, prices run from $29 to $130, with a median of $50 (prices checked October 2026).
Where can I do sauna and cold plunge in the US?
50 places we list have a cold plunge or cold pool next to the sauna, including AIRE Ancient Baths Tribeca, Bathhouse Atlantic Ave, Bathhouse Flatiron, Bathhouse Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bathhouse.