Tuli Lodge, a social sauna and cold plunge concept is opening its third pop-up location from May 29 to August 31. What began as a series of pop-up locations across Seattle, recently including Old Stove Ship Canal and a six-month residency at Pier 62, is now leveling up with a new pop-up at Vulcan Real Estate’s Lake Union Piers just in time for Seattle’s summer season.
After a trip to Norway, the founder, Hannah Goldstein, discovered saunas are so much more than a high-end ritual. That experience sparked her vision to create a community-centered space and reimagine luxurious saunas as a social, affordable, wellness experience.
“When I came back to the U.S., I couldn’t find anything like it”, says Hannah Goldstein in a statement. “The sauna culture I experienced in Norway was rejuvenating, casual, and social. I wanted to build that here—something you could weave into your regular life, not just a special occasion.”
Coined ‘Tuli’, the social sauna and cold plunge garden is named after “fire” in Finnish and is a nod to the Nordic roots of sauna culture and the spark of warmth and connection they aim to create. The new location at Lake Union Piers will serve as a community hot-spot for the South Lake Union neighborhood with lounge chairs, firepits, and conversation games that encourage sauna-goers to enjoy the waterfront views and stay a while. Accessible by bike path, bus, boat, and paddleboard, the concept invites guests to sweat it out in wood-fired saunas, jump off the pier into Lake Union, and repeat.
