A Sweet Experience.

We believe saunas are among the best wellness practices ever discovered — on par with running, meditation, and breathwork.

Traditional saunas offer incredible health benefits, stress relief, and are a near-spiritual experience that can be shared with family and friends on the daily. Paired with a cold plunge, a few rounds between the two have more reliably brought us into states of elation and ease than, well... anything.

While saunas and cold plunges have been used in nordic countries for thousands of years, we've hardly yet to catch on in the United States. Honey Hut aims to change that, and is our way of sharing this sweet experience with the USA.

This is the Place.

Ethan, co-founder of Honey Hut, first encountered a gorgeous wood-fired sauna in the Rocky Mountains just outside of Yellowstone National Park in 2016.

For three summers running the Range Rider Lodge, late night saunas with friends and snowmelt creek plunges under the Milky Way impressed upon him in ways life-changing and deep.

Naturally, he sought saunas everywhere he went afterwards. He shared them with family and friends, including Cole.

One cold January evening, in the afterglow of a rejuvenating sauna session, Cole saw his love for the contrasting experience of saunas and cold plunges through his entrepreneurial lens and had an idea. With mutual love for saunas and innovative spirits, Ethan and Cole founded Honey Hut with the bold vision of sharing the sauna experience with the USA.

Our Founders

  • Cole Rhodes

    Originally from Gilroy, CA — the Garlic Capital of the World — Cole ventured to Arizona earning a Bachelor’s in Public Relations and Aerospace from Northern Arizona University. Always allured by aviation, flight school in Phoenix was his natural next step. While earning his commercial pilot’s license, Cole co-founded Desert Lens Real Estate Photography with Ethan. A bold blend of tenacity and vision, he soon moved to Denver to establish their second real estate photography branch at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. It was here Honey Hut was born. Outside of work, Cole enjoys mountain biking, skiing, flying missions for Pilots N Paws, and traveling the world.

  • Ethan Maurice

    Born and raised in Arizona, Ethan graduated magna cum laude from Northern Arizona University with a bachelor’s in Biomedical Science. Ripples of a near death experience running through him, he skipped out on medical school and went on what became a five year walkabout, wandering the world on a shoestring budget, voraciously reading books, striving to understand what's happening here and gain a vision for his life. Today he writes a blog, runs real estate photography businesses in Phoenix and Denver with Cole, and his passion for repeated rounds of sauna and cold plunge has blossomed into a sweet business, sharing the gift of sauna and cold plunge with the USA.