Every Sauna, Cold Plunge, Steam Room & Float Tank in Portland 🧖

🔥 The Full Circuits

Hot, cold, and a place to soak in between — all under one roof. If you want the real contrast cycle, start here.

• 01CASCADA Thermal Springs

  Dry sauna ~190°F

  Alberta Arts · thermal hotel + spa

  21+Book aheadPhone-free zone3-hour sessions

  The most ambitious thermal build in the city — an entire Alberta block turned into a three-part circuit. The Conservatory is the social one (plant-filled, daybeds, vitality pool, red light). The Secret Garden is outdoors: hot pool, sauna, rainfall feature, fire pit. Then you go down into the Sanctuary, a silent underground room of hot and ambient pools, sauna, steam, and the cold plunge, where everyone whispers like it's a library. It is expensive and it is worth doing once, minimum.

  Cold plunge

  Walk-in plunge in the Sanctuary

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  $100 day pass

  Know before you go: Sessions run 2–3 hours and are adults-only. Sandals, towels, water and tea are included, so all you bring is a swimsuit. Phones are banned in the Sanctuary and allowed elsewhere. Free cancellation up to 24 hours out; inside that you're charged in full.

  1150 NE Alberta St ↗

• 02Knot Springs

  Cedar sauna 210°F+

  Central Eastside · The Yard at the Burnside Bridge

  Bridge + river viewsNon-members welcomeOpen 7am–9pm daily

  The city-slick one. A tepidarium, a 104°F jetted caldarium, one of the hottest saunas in Portland, a steam room dosed with essential oils, and a 47°F plunge — arranged as a named circuit they'll hand you a card for. The deck looks straight out at the Willamette and its bridges, which is the actual reason to pay the premium.

  Cold plunge

  47°F cold plunge

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  $69 for a 2-hour Springs visit

  Know before you go: You do not need to be a member — day visits book online for groups up to four, and larger groups call (503) 222-5668. If you're going more than once a month the Wellness Circle membership ($150/mo) drops repeat visits to about $55, otherwise stick to day passes.

  33 NE 3rd Ave, Ste 365 ↗

• 03Bear Banya

  Russian parilka + hammam

  Hazelwood · outer SE

  Venik whiskingWood-fired hot tubOpen 10am–10pm daily

  The most traditional heat in Portland and the least Instagrammed. A proper Russian parilka where eucalyptus water goes on the stones, a Turkish-style hammam steam room, a wood-burning kupel hot tub, an infrared room with little wooden beds, and a cold plunge — all wrapped around a fireplace lounge where you're supposed to sit and eat fruit between rounds. This is a culture, not an amenity list.

  Cold plunge

  Cold plunge pool

  Clothing

  Swimsuit; robes, wraps and slippers provided

  From

  $60 drop-in

  Know before you go: The $100 two-hour package is the sweet spot: everything above plus tea, fruit, towels, slippers and a robe. Splurge on the $260 Introduction to Banya only if you want the venik treatment — getting rhythmically whacked with birch or eucalyptus branches — which is the whole point of a banya and worth doing once with someone who knows how.

  2130 SE 96th Ave ↗

• 04The Everett House

  Two electric saunas + steam

  Kerns · NE 29th & Everett

  18+Co-edAffinity hoursBirthday soak is free

  Portland's community hub of hot water, in a converted Craftsman-era pair of houses. Two saunas — one social with a salt wall, one silent that you enter through a tiny door — plus a steam room, a big outdoor saltwater hot tub, two cold tubs, an outdoor shower, a fire patio and a tea room. The crowd is neighbors, not a spa clientele. For $28 an hour it is the best value-per-amenity in the city.

  Cold plunge

  Two cold plunge tubs

  Clothing

  Clothing-optional (co-ed, non-sexual, non-touch)

  From

  $28 an hour

  Know before you go: Clothing-optional and co-ed by default, explicitly non-sexual and non-touch, 18 and over. Women's-only hours run Sundays 9am–3pm and LGBTQ+ hours Tuesdays 9am–1pm. Open Tue–Sun from 9am and Mondays from 1pm, until 11pm. Your birthday gets you a free hour.

  2917 & 2927 NE Everett St ↗

• 05Common Ground Wellness Cooperative

  Dry cedar sauna

  Concordia · NE 33rd, near Alberta

  Clothing-optionalAffinity hoursSilent hoursPay-what-you-can Tuesdays

  The gentle one, and the oldest habit on this list. An open-air courtyard with a saltwater soaking tub, a dry cedar sauna, and a cold shower, run as an actual cooperative. No plunge tub, no circuit branding, no upsell — just a quiet garden where the sky is the ceiling and half the regulars have been coming for a decade.

  Cold plunge

  No plunge — cold showers only

  Clothing

  Clothing-optional (swimsuits welcome)

  From

  $18 for 30 minutes

  Know before you go: Cold contrast here is a shower, not a plunge — go elsewhere if the ice bath is the point. Pricing ladders $18/$28/$38/$48 for 30/60/90/120 minutes; towels are $2.50. Silent hours are 10–11am and 9–10pm daily. Affinity hours for trans folks, QTBIPOC, BIPOC and women can't be booked online — call (503) 238-1065 or email. Through September 2026, Tuesdays 2–10pm are pay-what-you-can.

  5010 NE 33rd Ave ↗

• 06Fusion Bodyworks PDX

  Cedar sauna in a vintage trailer

  Arbor Lodge · N Portland

  Community + private sessionsFire patioMassage on site

  A practitioner-owned healing-arts house that built a sauna patio in its backyard in 2025 — a custom cedar sauna inside a vintage trailer, two hot soaking tubs, a cold plunge and a fire. It feels like the best possible version of a friend's backyard, which is a category Portland is unusually good at.

  Cold plunge

  Cold plunge on the patio

  Clothing

  Swimsuit in community sessions; optional in private rentals

  From

  $34 for a 90-minute community session

  Know before you go: Private rentals ($280 for two hours, up to eight, suits optional) are the move for a group; the 90-minute community session is the cheap solo option. Soaking tubs are private-rental only, $85–$125. Towel and robe rental is $5. The outdoor sauna has closed for maintenance stretches before — check the site before you drive over.

  7415 N Oatman Ave ↗

• 07Connect Wellness

  Wood-burning saunas, 160–190°F

  Vancouver, WA · 20 min from NE Portland

  13+ with an adultWood-firedFarmhouse settingSound baths

  Worth the bridge. A farmhouse backyard turned into a proper Nordic setup: wood-burning saunas, several circulating cold plunges, an eight-person soaking flume, outdoor showers, gardens, and a yurt they run sound baths in. Some of the coldest water on this list, and the only one where the whole thing feels like someone's beautifully overbuilt backyard.

  Cold plunge

  Multiple cold plunges, 35–55°F

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  $40 for a 2-hour community spa session

  Know before you go: Reservations online. Under-13s aren't allowed and 13–18 need an adult. There's a place to stay the night on the property if you'd rather not drive home warm. Two hours is the standard block and it's genuinely enough for four or five rounds.

  4301 NE 59th Ave, Vancouver, WA ↗

🪵 Sauna First, Cold Second

Heat is the main event here. Some have a plunge, some genuinely don't — and the ones that don't say so plainly rather than hiding behind “cold contrast available.”

• 08Löyly — Northeast

  Electric cedar sauna

  Eliot/Boise · NE MLK Jr Blvd

  16+Social saunaTowel + robe includedMassage on site

  The one that taught Portland to sauna, and still the easiest yes in the city. Minimalist cedar rooms, foot baths, a social sauna at this location, and overhead pull-chain buckets you dump on your own head. Two hours here is a genuinely restorative afternoon for the price of a cocktail and a half.

  Cold plunge

  No plunge — cold showers only

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  $30 Mon–Thu, $40 Fri–Sun (2 hours)

  Know before you go: Be clear-eyed: Löyly has no soaking pools and no cold plunge. Cold contrast is a shower or the bucket. If you specifically came for an ice bath, book somewhere else on this page. Ages 16+, under 18 with an adult. Private rentals run $300 for up to eight. Add-ons include aromatherapy foot soaks, face masks, and birch/oak whisking.

  3525 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd ↗

• 09Löyly — Southeast

  Electric cedar sauna + steam

  Hosford-Abernethy · SE 21st

  16+QuieterSteam roomGarage door opens up

  The smaller, quieter sibling — and the one to pick if you want to actually decompress rather than socialize. It has a steam room the NE location doesn't, and a garage door that rolls open to the outside, which on a cold clear day is the single best thing about it.

  Cold plunge

  No plunge — cold showers only

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  $30 Mon–Thu, $40 Fri–Sun (2 hours)

  Know before you go: Same pricing and same caveat as NE: no plunge, no soaking pools, cold showers and buckets only. Smaller room means it books out faster on weekends.

  2713 SE 21st Ave ↗

• 10SaunaGlo

  Nordic sauna, seats 18

  Milwaukie · 15 min south of downtown

  Cheapest on this listGenuinely ADAFamily-friendlyWalk-ins welcome

  The people's sauna. A big woman-owned Nordic room that seats eighteen, a cedar barrel plunge, a rainwater shower, a bucket dump, and a botanical lounge with snacks and a reading library. It runs weekly community nights — LGBTQ+ socials, a men's fire circle — and hosts a wood-fired mobile sauna pop-up on weekends. Nineteen dollars.

  Cold plunge

  Cedar barrel cold plunge

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required (no nudity in the locker room)

  From

  $19 weekdays before 2pm

  Know before you go: The most accessible venue on this page and not by accident: wheelchair-accessible entrance, two gender-neutral accessible bathrooms, an accessible locker-room shower, and an ADA transfer bench with a 60-inch turning circle and 36-inch doorway in the sauna itself. No towel service — bring your own. $29 after 2pm and on weekends; $149/month unlimited. Open 7am weekdays, 9am weekends.

  1915 SE Jefferson St, Milwaukie ↗

• 11Root Whole Body

  Traditional cedar + private infrared

  Slabtown · NW Portland

  Wellness centerNaturopath + acupunctureMembership discounts

  Sauna as one service inside a full integrative-health clinic — the place you go when the sauna is a bolt-on to bodywork, acupuncture or a naturopath appointment rather than the whole evening. Traditional cedar communal room, private infrared cabins, hydrotherapy soaks, and a relaxation room with tea.

  Cold plunge

  No plunge — cold showers only

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required in the communal sauna

  From

  $25 for 30 minutes in the community sauna

  Know before you go: $25 for a half hour communal, $49 for infrared. No cold plunge. Members pay less. It's a clinic, so it feels like one — clean and calm rather than atmospheric.

  2122 NW Quimby St ↗

🚪 Private Rooms: Infrared, Contrast & Cryo

Book a room, close the door, share it with nobody. If communal anything is a hard no, this is your section — and it's where the cold that isn't water lives.

• 12Shiver & Sweat

  Private infrared cabins

  Boise · N Williams Ave

  Private suitesContrast therapy roomsRed light⚠️ Renamed

  The book-a-room option on N Williams: private infrared suites with your own TV and Bluetooth speaker, plus dedicated contrast-therapy rooms pairing infrared heat with a high-end circulating plunge. Nobody else is in the room. If communal nudity or communal anything is a hard no for you, this is your building.

  Cold plunge

  Circulating plunge in the contrast rooms

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required in the plunge

  From

  Pricing not published online — call ahead

  Know before you go: Heads up — most Portland lists still call this address Pure Sweat Sauna Studio, but the space now trades as Shiver & Sweat and Pure Sweat Studios no longer lists a Portland location on its own site. Same address, different sign. Under the Pure Sweat name this room ran roughly $60 for a 45-minute infrared session and $95 for 60 minutes of contrast; current pricing isn't posted, so confirm when you book.

  4019 N Williams Ave ↗

• 13Surge Wellness

  Traditional + infrared sauna

  Cedar Mill · NW 185th & Cornell

  Private roomWestside30 or 60 minutesGroups up to 4

  The westside answer, and a surprisingly complete one: a private room holding one to four people with a traditional sauna, an infrared sauna, two cold plunges and a shower, booked in 30- or 60-minute blocks. If you live out past the tunnel, this saves you the trip across the river.

  Cold plunge

  Two cold plunges

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  Pricing not published online — call (503) 530-8839

  Know before you go: Private-room-only means you're never sharing with strangers, but it also means booking is essential. Pricing isn't listed on the site — call before you plan around it.

  11786 NW Cedar Falls Dr, Ste 220 ↗

• Rest Recovery Portland ↗NE Sandy Blvd

  The deepest modality menu in town under one roof: cold plunge, infrared sauna, float tanks, red light, and hyperbaric chambers. Their site was intermittently down when we checked, so call before you drive — and confirm the exact Sandy Blvd address while you're at it.

• Optimize U PDX ↗3190 NW 185th Ave · Westside

  Infrared sauna plus whole-body cryotherapy — the only cold on this page that isn't water. It's a clinic (hormones, IV, NAD+) that also sells sessions, so expect a medical front desk rather than a locker room.

• Restore Hyper Wellness ↗Lake Oswego

  The national chain version: infrared sauna, cryotherapy, red light, mild hyperbaric, IV drips. Predictable and clean, and the closest cryo chamber to the south end of the metro.

🌌 Float Tanks & Sensory Deprivation

The other end of thermal: water held at exactly skin temperature, so dense with Epsom salt you float, in total darkness and silence. Not hot, not cold — absent. Portland was one of the first American cities to take this seriously and still has three good options.

• 14Float On

  Skin-temp, ~94°F

  Hawthorne · SE Portland

  Worker-owned co-op6 tanksLate-night floatsOpen since 2010

  One of the first float centers in the country and still the best-known — six tanks in different shapes, from coffin-style cabins to open pools, each holding about a foot of water so dense with Epsom salt that you cannot sink. It went worker-owned in 2024. Heated to skin temperature, so after a few minutes you genuinely lose track of where your body ends.

  The water

  11 inches of water, 1,000+ lbs of Epsom salt

  Clothing

  Nude, in a private room

  From

  $77 for 90 minutes

  Know before you go: Not hot and not cold — the whole point is water at exactly body temperature so your nervous system stops reporting it. You float nude in a private room with your own shower. Memberships run $54/month and a yearly pass drops the per-float cost to about $35. The 2.5-hour late-night float is the same price as the 90-minute; if you've floated before, book that one.

  4530 SE Hawthorne Blvd ↗

• 15The Float Shoppe

  Skin-temp, ~94°F

  NW 23rd · Northwest Portland

  Family-run since 2011Private podsMassage + acupuncture

  The small, careful one. A family-run wellness house on NW 23rd where floating sits alongside massage, acupuncture and counseling, and where they'll actually sit down and talk you through your first float instead of handing you earplugs and pointing at a door.

  The water

  Two styles of private pod, some with star lighting

  Clothing

  Nude, in a private room

  From

  Float pricing isn't posted — the $285 Float Sandwich is

  Know before you go: The signature booking is the Float Sandwich — a 60-minute float, a 90-minute massage, then another 60-minute float, $285 and most of an afternoon. Standalone float pricing isn't published, so ask when you book.

  1515 NW 23rd Ave ↗

• 16Float North

  Skin-temp, ~94°F

  Irvington · NE 17th

  Wheelchair-accessible tankCouples can float togetherSound therapy

  The accessible one, and the only Portland float center with a large open tank you can share — which makes it the only realistic option if you use a wheelchair, or if the idea of a sealed pod alone in the dark is exactly the problem. They also run SomaWave low-frequency sound therapy, which is floating with a soundtrack you feel rather than hear.

  The water

  An open tank big enough for two

  Clothing

  Nude, in a private room

  From

  $60/float on the 3-float intro, $88 after

  Know before you go: Start with the three-float intro at $60 each; single floats are $88 after that. Book the shared tank explicitly if that's what you're after — it's one tank, not the default.

  1617 NE 17th Ave ↗

🌊 On the Water

Portland's newest and best idea: put the sauna next to the river and skip the tank entirely. Seasonal, weather-dependent, unforgettable.

• 17Guss

  Wood-fired barrel sauna, ~12 people

  Sellwood Riverfront Park & Willamette Park

  16+Weekends fall & winter5% to Human Access ProjectBring two towels

  Portland's first riverfront mobile sauna, and the purest version of the whole idea: a wood-fired cedar barrel parked near a dock, and then you walk into the Willamette. Owner Josh Gordon's argument is that a river plunge beats a tank because the water is alive and the shock is real, and about four seconds in you'll agree with him.

  Cold plunge

  The Willamette River itself

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required (public park)

  From

  $30 for a 60-minute session

  Know before you go: The plunge is the river, so this is weather- and season-dependent and the water is tested weekly for safety — Guss only runs when it's swim-safe. Drop-ins are 16+; under-16s only in private rentals with a guardian. Two towels are required, not suggested. Punch pass is $120 for five; private rental $280 for up to twelve. Also pops up at Cathedral Park and at Duality Brewing in Kerns, though the Kerns one has no river.

  Riverside pop-up — location given at booking ↗

• 18Ebb & Ember

  Propane-heated sauna boat

  North Portland Harbor · Elevated Tides Marina

  Opened January 2026Socials of 8Privates of 10Memberships

  Portland's first floating sauna, moored among the houseboats just south of Hayden Island. Big windows, gentle bobbing, and a rooftop platform you jump off into the Columbia — which co-owner Jonah Moses built specifically because cold plunging is hard and jumping off a roof is fun. Cold-shy people get the Downpour bucket or a deck shower instead.

  Cold plunge

  Jump off the roof into the Columbia

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  Session pricing varies by peak/off-peak — check the booking page

  Know before you go: Sessions run 1 hour 45 minutes plus a 15-minute changeover. Social sessions are Friday through Monday; Tuesday–Thursday is private bookings. Off-peak is Mon–Thu and Friday mornings before 5pm, which is where the deals are. Membership includes four off-peak socials a month with extra sessions at $29.

  173 NE Bridgeton Rd ↗

• 19SaunaGlo Wood-Fired Pop-Up

  Mobile wood-fired sauna

  Milwaukie · in SaunaGlo's lot

  SeasonalFri–Sun afternoonsAdd-on to the main sauna

  If you've only ever done electric heat, wood fire is a different animal — softer, heavier, alive in a way an element never is. SaunaGlo parks a mobile wood-fired sauna on site through the cold months so you can taste the difference without driving to a river.

  Cold plunge

  Cold plunge + botanical lounge

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  Reservation required — see the SaunaGlo calendar

  Know before you go: Seasonal and typically Friday–Sunday afternoons, so check the calendar rather than assuming. It runs alongside the main sauna, so you can do both in one trip.

  1915 SE Jefferson St, Milwaukie ↗

🏋️ Steam Rooms on a Gym Membership

Nobody puts these on a sauna list, and they should. If you want heat as a habit rather than an outing, a gym membership you already have — or a $40-a-month one — beats $30 a visit every single time. These are the Portland-area gyms whose locker rooms actually deliver.

• Lloyd Athletic Club ↗815 NE Halsey St · Lloyd

  Dry sauna, steam room and hot tubs, free towels and free parking, in a full old-school club. First-time Portland locals can get a free one-day pass, which makes this the cheapest steam room in the city — once. (Pole Portland shares the building, so listings sometimes name it instead.)

• Life Time — Beaverton ↗600 SW 116th Ave · Beaverton

  The only gym in the metro with the whole circuit: dry sauna, steam room, hot tub and a cold plunge. Premium membership pricing to match, but if you want contrast therapy as a habit rather than an outing, this is the math that works.

• 24 Hour Fitness ↗Hollywood, Pearl, SE McLoughlin, Gresham

  Dry sauna and steam room at all of them; Hollywood (4224 NE Halsey), the Pearl (1210 NW Johnson), McLoughlin (4546 SE McLoughlin) and Gresham (1541 NE 181st) add a hot tub. Downtown (1407 SW 4th) is sauna and steam only.

• LA Fitness — Lloyd Center ↗1270 NE Weidler St

  Dry sauna, pool and hot tub. The SE 82nd location (4140 SE 82nd) has the same setup; the Pearl location (1400 NW Northrup) has sauna and pool but no hot tub.

💧 Cheap Hot Water

No sauna, no circuit, no ceremony — just a hot soak that costs less than a movie ticket.

• 20McMenamins Kennedy School Soaking Pool

  Heated saltwater pool

  Concordia · NE 33rd

  All agesCheapest soak in PortlandReserve online

  A tiled, heated soaking pool in a walled garden courtyard behind an old elementary school, with a bar down the hall. It is not a bathhouse and there's no sauna — it's a hot pool you can sit in for ten dollars, in the rain, in December, with a beer, and honestly that's an entire Portland evening.

  Cold plunge

  No plunge — cold showers only

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  $10 per person, per hour

  Know before you go: Public hours are 10:30am–7:30pm daily and reservations are online-only within a 14-day window — it fills up. Ages 3+ pay full price, under 2 free, minors need a parent present. Free for hotel guests. Grand Lodge in Forest Grove runs the same deal; Edgefield's pool is overnight guests only.

  5736 NE 33rd Ave ↗

• 21Carson Hot Springs Resort

  Natural mineral hot pool + sauna

  Carson, WA · about an hour up the Gorge

  Historic 1930 bathhouseSauna includedPay on site

  The closest real hot springs to Portland you can drive to in normal shoes. A covered communal mineral pool and a small cold plunge at a rustic 1930 geothermal resort an hour up the Gorge, with saunas thrown in. Add the historic bathhouse soak-and-wrap — hot mineral tub, then swaddled in hot towels — if you want the full antique treatment.

  Cold plunge

  Small cold plunge pool

  Clothing

  Swimsuit required

  From

  $13–$15 for the mineral pool, saunas included

  Know before you go: Rates run about $15 for ages 12–54 and $13 for seniors and kids, paid on site rather than online, and the bathhouse ritual is priced separately. Cheap enough to pair with a Gorge hike and still come in under $30.

  372 St Martin's Springs Rd, Carson, WA ↗

🚗 Worth the Drive

Hot springs and destination bathhouses within a tank of gas — the ones that turn a soak into a whole day.

• Bagby Hot Springs ↗1h40 + a 1.4-mile hike

  Hand-hewn cedar tubs in Mt. Hood National Forest, fed by piped-in hot spring water, reached by an easy flat walk through mossy old growth. $5 soaking fee at the trailhead and it's open 24/7, which almost no public hot spring is. Bring a headlamp and low expectations about privacy.

• Breitenbush Hot Springs ↗~2 hours

  The big one: a 153-acre worker-owned cooperative retreat with geothermal soaking pools, a cedar sauna hut built over a capped geyser, and a cold plunge in a glacier-fed river. Clothing-optional. $35 day pass (9am–6pm, reserve ahead — they're non-refundable), overnights from $112 with communal meals. Part summer camp, part storybook.

• The Society Hotel Bingen ↗~1 hour, Columbia Gorge

  A former schoolhouse with a proper Scandinavian bathhouse at its center: cedar sauna, tepid saltwater pool, hot outdoor pool, and a 54°F cold plunge, ringed by little cabins. Day visits from $30 for an hour; free if you stay over. The best hot-cold-sleep combination within an hour of Portland.

• Bonneville Hot Springs Resort ↗~1 hour

  North Bonneville, WA. The more resort-shaped Gorge option — mineral pools and a full spa attached to overnight rooms, reopened under new ownership in 2025.

• Campfield Long Beach ↗~2h30, Washington coast

  Snow Peak's first American glamping campground, with a Japanese ofuro bathhouse: hinoki cypress sauna, a 105°F soaking pool, and a 45–50°F plunge. Day passes from $35 for 90 minutes, free for campers, adults-only slots after 7pm and before 11am.

• Sosta House ↗~40 minutes, Willamette Valley

  A three-bedroom B&B next to Ponzi Vineyards with a barrel sauna looking over the grapevines and a cold plunge built out of a converted wine fermenting tank. From $200/night, sauna included. Wine country's answer to contrast therapy.

• Gather Sauna House ↗~3 hours, Bend

  Wood-fired mobile sauna on the Deschutes with a river plunge, founded by a trauma therapist and built around Latvian pirts–style herbal whisking. From $36 for 75 minutes. Worth folding into a Bend weekend.