Try Me Spa Moose

Lakeside sauna & cold plunge · by appointment

Warm wood, cold water,
and a moose who wanders through.

Try Me Spa Moose is a two-cabin sauna house on a quiet northern lake. We keep the fire stoked, the plunge fresh, and the towels warm — so you can do absolutely nothing for a few unhurried hours.

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Wood-fired heat

Both of our cabins are heated the old way — birch and spruce, a cast-iron stove, and stones that hold their warmth for hours after the last log burns down.

Straight-from-the-lake plunge

Our plunge isn't chilled; it's the lake itself, through a wooden ladder off the dock. In summer it's bracing. In winter we keep a hole open through the ice.

Small by design

Six guests at a time, two cabins, one fire-keeper. We don't do crowds, we don't upsell, and we don't play music you can't turn off.

A note from the fire-keeper

We built this place for slow afternoons.

My grandparents ran a similar sauna across the water for forty-three years. When they closed it in 2014, my wife and I spent two long winters clearing birch, pouring a cedar-plank deck, and arguing about stove placement. We opened the doors in 2019 with one cabin, added the second in 2022, and named the whole thing after the moose who kept showing up at the compost pile.

She's still around. You probably won't see her. But if you do, stay on the dock and let her pass.

"Two hours here undoes a week of everything else. The sauna smells like a house that's been loved for a long time."

— a return guest, third visit this year