May 2, 2026
Made for the metro.
6 picks

Wellness & Spas in the Twin Cities

A long winter teaches a city to take wellness seriously. The Twin Cities has a small but growing set of serious spas, sauna and bathhouse experiences, and reset spaces. Some are sleek hotel productions, some are loose Northeast warehouse operations, all are useful when the daylight gets short.

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Northeast MinneapolisNordic-style sauna and cold plungeEditor’s pick

Watershed Spa

A Northeast Minneapolis communal sauna and cold-plunge spa built around the Nordic ritual: hot, cold, rest, repeat. Multiple sauna types, cold plunge pools, quiet rest rooms, and a mostly-coed format. The right move when the city has been frozen for sixty days.

Northeast Minneapolis$$$
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Downtown MinneapolisLuxury hotel spa

The Spa at Hotel Ivy

The full-service spa inside the Hotel Ivy. Massages, facials, body treatments, and a relaxation lounge. Open to non-guests and one of the more thoroughly luxurious hotel-spa experiences in the metro.

Downtown Minneapolis$$$$
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MinnetonkaWellness center, holistic

The Marsh

A west-metro wellness center in Minnetonka with pools, fitness, yoga, massage, and a holistic-wellness orientation. The combination of facilities under one roof is hard to find anywhere else in the metro.

Minnetonka$$$$
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Multiple Twin Cities locationsSalon + spa

Spalon Montage

A Twin Cities salon-and-spa operation with multiple metro locations. Reliable across hair, skincare, and massage, with the kind of consistent service that makes it the default for a lot of locals.

Multiple Twin Cities locations$$$
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St. PaulHolistic, smaller scale

Stillheart Healing Arts

A small St. Paul healing-arts space focused on bodywork, energy work, and a quieter wellness register than the bigger spas. Personal, unhurried, and less of a production.

St. Paul$$$
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Various pop-up locationsMobile Finnish sauna

The Sauna Society

A mobile Finnish-sauna operation that pops up at lakes and parks across the metro through the winter. Reservation-based, communal, and the simplest way to experience a real lakeside sauna without owning a cabin.

Various Twin Cities pop-up locations$$