Finding Minnesota: How Cokato Became "Sauna City"

By John Lauritsen, CBS Minnesota

January 12, 2023

When it's cold outside, there's at least one place you can go to get warm -- a sauna. In this week's Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen shows us how Cokato became "Sauna City."

Officially, "SAUW-na" is how they say it in Finland. That is where Sauna 360 is partially based out of. Here in the U.S., the company builds and sells saunas in Cokato, a town where Finnish settlers once put down their roots because the climate was similar to their native country.

"Right here you're in sauna central for probably the whole U.S., really," said Sauna 360's Matt Bergstrom.

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