Cape Ann Finns and Abundance Mobile Sauna return for a third year in celebration of National Sauna Week, February 17-18, 2024. Cape Ann Finns and owner, Finn and CAF member Mark Babson, offer a post-sauna repast of kahvi, nisu/pulla, makkara around an open fire at the former Ahola dairy farm, now the Lanesville Community Center. […]

Cape Ann Finns and Abundance Mobile Sauna return for a third year in celebration of National Sauna Week, February 16-17-18, 2024. Cape Ann Finns and owner, Finn and CAF member Mark Babson, offer post-sauna snacks around an open fire.

Finlandia Foundation National hosts a week-long celebration of the authentic Finnish bathing tradition, with free online programming and on a variety of sauna-related topics, joined by events at FFN chapters across the country.

See sauna week art poster exhibits, featuring Calumet Debbie Paver’s winning poster. Learn about sauna culture and history through stories and see a Finnish Log Building exhibit. Copper Island Academy […]

A winter retreat for your body, mind and soul in Center City, Minnesota. Join Four Elements Nordic Sauna + Wood Pallet Treasures + Green Compass Hemp Wellness for a 2 hour […]

We are saddling up alongside the Pack River on Sunday February 18th to kick off National Sauna Week! Get fired up in our sauna, & take the trail to the river’s edge to plunge into ice cold waters coming down the Pack River. Our sauna sessions are for a full 50 mins. Each shared, open […]

Relax at a one-hour sauna session, with makkara and snacks. Join the pasty (meat pie) making cooking demonstrtion at 2:30 (Central time).

Longtime friends and sauna enthusiasts Steve Leppälä, a former environmental regulator who describes himself as voluntarily unemployed, and Arne Vainio, a family practice MD in Cloquet, Minnesota, share humorous stories of their sessions at Steve’s basement sauna at his home and at other locations—including Finland—in search of sauna experiences to write home about.

Record your sauna memories! “Sauna Stories” is an oral history project from the Finnish Theme Committee of Hancock. This is a recorded audio and visual project inspired by NPR’s StoryCorps. All are welcome to share their most treasured sauna memory, history, or experience for the camera and/or microphone. Whether the traditions of the sauna are […]