The Men’s Health Winter Adventure Guide: 9 Trips Worth Leaving the Couch for

Kitesurfers flock to the Outer Banks’ beach town of Cape Hatteras for its strong wintertime winds and big waves. Edgecamp’s 14 suites are like mini residences that offer front-row access to the intense, full-body workouts—lessons, too—happening in the sound just beyond. On property, their wellness center offers ice baths, barrel saunas, and hot tubs. And, in case all that isn’t enough after a day of wave-pummeling, you can schedule an in-room massage too.

Yes, Cortina D’Ampezzo, one of the host cities (along with Milan) for the Winter Games’ snowy, icy, adrenaline-filled action. It’s about two-and-a-half-hour drive from Venice, which is worth it for the powder-heavy ski runs that will leave you winded only a third of the way through. Hotel Tofana will fix you right up though: their spa and wellness center features three different hot rooms, a cold plunge pool, and foot massage baths.

This luxury hotel sits within walking distance of Park City’s new Sunrise Gondola, which lifts 10 people at a time up to 6,500 feet and some of the most exhilarating runs in the U.S. A year-round (heated) rooftop pool, expansive wellness spa, and four (count ‘em, four) on-site restaurants make recharging and refueling for another day of diamonds easy.

Just beyond Lake Superior’s shore, this all-inclusive retreat hosts a sauna open 24 hours (midnight sweat session, anyone?), nature walks, yoga, and 100 acres of surrounding forest. What they offer changes quickly, which means you could experience a cold moon sound bath on one trip and an intensive breathwork workshop the next.

Right beside Gondola One, this clubhouse offers a shortcut for first tracks and longer days on the slopes. But it’s equally well set up to meet all your recovery needs. The comprehensive spa features contrast therapy with sauna, steam, cold plunge and hot tub, but also a salt lounge, oxygen inhalation therapy, and magnesium massage. They offer yoga and meditation classes, if somehow you still have the energy.

A natural thermal river runs through this spa, which sits on a private reserve near the Costa Rican volcano Arenal. If soaking in the mineral-rich, naturally heated waters in the middle of the rainforest isn’t enough to sell you, consider that the resort also offers suite-side thermal tubs, outdoor yoga, two restaurants, and four bars.

If setting up (and packing up) camp as you hike through Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park sounds like work, book a reservation here. AutoCamp’s “Airstream suites” include actual beds, a kitchenette, and access to Clubhouse, a communal meeting space with a bonfire and events. It’s basecamp, but far from basic.

This boutique lodge in Cambria, California sits right on Moonstone Beach, where you can surf frigid waves, hunt tide pools, or just sit and chill. Each room has a Pacific Ocean view. (Upgrade to one with a gas fireplace or sea-view soaking tub.) They’ll load you a Linus cruiser bike if you want to head out for a hike or into town too.

A lakefront heated pool, crackling fire pits, s’mores and Nordic cedar barrel saunas—this spot on the Finger Lakes slows things way down. You could head out for a hike, snow bike, or skiing nearby, but you could also just hot tub it surrounded by snow, hit up cocktails in the library, dine at the wood-fired hearth tavern, and follow it up with a spa treatment complete with with Himalayan salt feet warmers.