Cold Water, Hot Steam, Open Sky. · Planned for 2027
Lodging with a Sauna and Cold Plunge near Capitol Reef
No lodging near Capitol Reef National Park has a sauna and cold plunge yet, including ours. Ours are planned for the 2027 season at our property in Teasdale, Utah, 4 miles from Torrey, Utah, and none of it is built.
Visualisation of the planned circuit, on the ground it would be built on. Nothing in this image exists yet.
What is planned
A wellness circuit built for where it sits: sauna, cold plunge, and soaking tubs out in the open air at 7,000 feet, with nothing overhead but the dark sky.
- Sauna · planned 2027
- Cold plunge · planned 2027
- Soaking tubs · planned 2027
- Movie nights · planned 2027
Can you book a stay with a sauna near Capitol Reef?
Not here, not yet. Our sauna, cold plunge and open-air soaking tubs are planned for the 2027 season and none of it is built. If a sauna is the reason for the trip, do not book us for 2026.
In the wider area there is one obvious option today: Red Sands Hotel and Spa in Torrey, Utah trades on a spa, and several other properties in town have hot tubs. We list every hotel and lodging option in the valley, competitors included, because sending someone to the right bed beats losing them to a back button.
When does it arrive, and when can you book?
Reservations are open now. The wellness build-out is planned for the 2027 season, alongside the conversion of the property to geodesic domes. So you can reserve a stay well before the circuit exists.
We took ownership of the property in September 2026, so the build is ours to schedule. Treat the 2027 season as a plan rather than a promise: construction dates move, and we would rather say so here than in a cancellation email.
What exactly is planned?
A sauna, a cold plunge, open-air soaking tubs and outdoor movie nights, built as one circuit rather than scattered as separate amenities. Cedar, blackened steel and weathered timber, sitting low, in the same material language as the rest of the rebuild.
It will be a small circuit attached to a lodging property, not a public spa. No day passes, no treatments, no therapists, no bookable appointments. Guests, and that is it.
Why does the sky matter to a hot tub?
Because it is the only reason to soak here rather than anywhere closer to home. Capitol Reef National Park was certified a Gold-tier International Dark Sky Park in 2015, and Torrey, Utah was certified an International Dark Sky Community in January 2018, the first national park gateway community in the United States to earn it.
That is a build constraint as much as a selling line. The lighting plan is warm, downward only, confined to the buildings and low deck markers, with the ground left dark. A wellness deck lit like a resort pool would cancel the thing people drove five hours for.
The darkest, clearest nights fall between November and March, around the new moon, which is also when an outdoor tub is at its best.
What can you actually do here in the meantime?
Sleep somewhere very dark and walk into a national park in the morning. The six glamping units take guests now: three tipis, two yurts and one dome, each sleeping two, at 7,000 feet in a pinyon grove looking over the Fremont River valley. Self check-in. Outside it is trails, slot canyons, red rock and OHV routes, minutes from Torrey, Utah.
The Lodge, 5 bedrooms each with a private bath and a full shared kitchen, sells by the room or all together as The Lodge. A group taking The Lodge is the one thing here that is genuinely unusual before the circuit exists.
Go deeper
- Hotels near Capitol Reef National ParkEvery hotel, motel, inn, cabin and glamping option in the valley, by category, competitors included.
- Hotels and lodging in Torrey, UtahThe gateway town: which kind of lodging suits which trip, and what closes for winter.
- Take The Lodge5 en-suite bedrooms, a full kitchen and a wraparound deck, with nobody else in it.
- Finnish sauna culture: traditions, benefits and etiquetteThe one explainer worth keeping. How the heat-cool-rest cycle works, and what the research does and does not support.
Quick answers
Not on this property yet. Our sauna, cold plunge and open-air soaking tubs are planned for the 2027 season and are not built. In Torrey, Utah today, Red Sands Hotel and Spa markets a spa and several other properties have hot tubs. Check directly with each, because amenities and winter opening both change.
No. The wellness circuit does not exist yet. Reservations are open now; the circuit is planned for the 2027 season, so a stay this winter will not include it.
No. It is planned as a small circuit for guests of the property, not a public spa. There are no day passes, no treatments, no therapists and no bookable appointments in the plan.
A sauna, a cold plunge and open-air soaking tubs, plus outdoor movie nights, built as one circuit outdoors at roughly 7,000 feet near Capitol Reef National Park. Planned for 2027, not built.
No, and it is not planned to become one. A wellness retreat is a programme with a facilitator, a schedule and meals. This is a lodging property with self check-in, a shared kitchen and no staff on site. Groups who want to run their own retreat here can take The Lodge.
Teasdale, Utah, 4 miles from Torrey, Utah and about 9 miles from the Capitol Reef National Park boundary. The park is a certified International Dark Sky Park and Torrey is a certified Dark Sky Community.