September 2025 - we are so excited to bring this to our community!

Welcome! Our team is excited to guide you through whatever experience works for you. Please arrive 10 minutes prior to your scheduled time and you’ll leave wanting more!

Bring a bathing suit, towel, and water. A small storage area is available for use during your sauna session.

Gillson Beach parking lot is located at 225 Sheridan Rd, Wilmette, IL.

Follow signs and park in the main lot.

Contrast Therapy is the practice of alternating between heat (sauna) and cold (ice bath/lake dip) to naturally stimulate your body’s circulatory, metabolic, and nervous systems. This back-and-forth between temperatures trains your body to adapt, recover, and thrive.

Thermoregulatory Therapy builds on this by challenging your body’s thermal regulation — helping it maintain balance in response to temperature stress. This boosts resilience, fat metabolism, mental clarity, and recovery.

This Finnish word is pronounced “low-loo”. It is when water is poured on the stove rocks to create steam, thereby elevating the humidity and temperature inside the sauna.

Please ask the group before doing it.

We’ve partnered with Nomad Sauna to bring you a sauna crafted entirely with natural materials, ensuring the purest environment. Their intentional and efficient design uses entirely clear grade 1.5" Cedar and Iki wood fired stoves.

Yes! As long as you see availability during the date/time, feel free to book the entire sauna. Please ensure each person attending signs the waiver.

Yes! Please send an email to info@campfiresauna.com or submit an inquiry directly on our website.

If you cancel less than 24 hours from your reservation, no refund will be issued.

We understand life happens. Please let us know if there are extenuating circumstances and we’ll do our best to work with you!