Forest saunas across the UK

Sauna in the Woods is a wood-fired sauna handbuilt from locally-sourced larch, Scots pine and Douglas fir in a woodland setting near Norwich, with a non-chlorinated cold plunge fed from an on-site natural swimming pool. Private one-to-three-hour sessions for two to six people run from £45 to £100, making it best suited to a private group rather than a drop-in.

Wild Forest Sauna sits in Whinlatter Forest, England's only true mountain forest, on the western shoulder of Skiddaw above Keswick and Derwentwater. Its setting is distinct from every other Lake District operator: a forest sauna rather than a lakeside one, with cold buckets and outdoor showers standing in for the lake plunge.

Wild Mourne Wellness sits inside Castlewellan Forest Park on the edge of the Mourne Mountains, swapping the open Atlantic for woodland and a lake. It pairs naturally with a walk in one of Northern Ireland's finest forest parks and offers the region's best inland sauna setting.

The Sauna Shack sits at Gortin Glen near Omagh, bringing the outdoor-sauna format to County Tyrone's forest country.