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 the east shore of Piikki Lake. We keep the löyly steady, the plunge hole open through the ice, and a kettle of spruce-tip tisane on the side-table — so you can do absolutely nothing for the two and a half hours it takes your nervous system to let go.

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Stove & stones

A cast-iron kiuas in each cabin, loaded with granite cobbles hauled out of the lake bed ourselves. We burn split birch for heat and a little alder at the end for smell. The stones hold 80–85°C on the upper bench for a full session.

Straight-from-the-lake plunge

Our plunge isn't chilled; it's Piikki Lake, through a spruce ladder off the end of the dock. Summer it's bracing. January it's 3°C under a floating cedar cover, and we'll walk you through the 10/3 cycle if it's your first time.

Six guests at a time

Two cabins, one fire-keeper, a cap of six in the shared hours and four in the private ones. We don't sell merchandise, we don't play piped-in music, and we don't do tiered packages. You booked a sauna; you get a sauna.

A note from the fire-keeper

We built this place for slow afternoons.

My grandparents ran the Lehto Sauna across the water for forty-three years. When they closed it in 2014, Teo and I spent two long winters clearing birch, pouring a cedar-plank deck, and arguing about stove placement. We opened the Big Moose in 2019, added the Calf in 2022, and named the whole thing after the cow moose who kept showing up at the compost pile behind the woodshed.

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

"Two hours here undoes a week of everything else. The Big Moose smells like a house that's been loved for a long time — birch, beeswax, and whatever Annika tossed on the stones."
— M., third visit this year, by way of the Lehto cousins

From the fire-keeper's book

This week on the property.

Tue

Re-cut the plunge hole after the Sunday freeze. 42" across, cedar cover sanded and re-planed. Teo added a second rope handle on the lake-side edge.

Wed

New batch of spruce-tip tisane steeping in the changing house. The 2024 jars from the back pantry are almost gone — savor them.

Thu

Big Moose bench #3 (the short one by the stove) got re-oiled with linseed. Won't feel sticky by Saturday. If it does, wipe it with a dry towel.

Fri