Basic Plumbing Portland

About this place Basic Plumbing Portland

Basic Plumbing Portland operates as the primary gay bathhouse in Portland, located in Southeast Portland close to the Crush Bar on SE Morrison Street. The facility provides the standard amenities of a North American gay sauna: steam rooms, dry sauna, private rooms available for rental, locker facilities, and common areas. The Southeast Portland location reflects the dispersal of Portland's gay scene into the city's residential east side and places the venue within the same general geography as Crush Bar and the queer-friendly neighbourhoods of SE Division and SE Hawthorne. For gay male visitors to Portland looking for a sauna experience, Basic Plumbing is the established option — a venue that has served the Portland community through various name iterations and ownership transitions while maintaining its function as the city's gay men's social and sexual space. The Morrison Street location is accessible by the MAX light rail and by bicycle from central Portland.