Sure, you could go for one last-ditch jaunt to the mountains before ski resorts shutter for the season.
Or you could load up your beach tote and head to just another oceanfront oasis. We’ll save our bikinis for slimmer, warmer days ahead and our ski pants for Salvation Army.
Instead, we’ll use those precious vacation days to visit these locales less traveled.
Miraval in Austin, Texas






Opened in February, Austin joins Tucson, Ariz., as the second all-inclusive resort in Miraval’s portfolio. The Hill Country rendition overlooks Lake Travis in the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve. Shed your frazzled New York self with hiking, water sports, a challenge course, ziplining, fitness and yoga classes galore, hatchet throwing(!), forest bathing, cooking lessons and equine activities. You’ll find this overtaxed Manhattanite at the 21,000-square-foot Life in Balance Spa cloaked in spirulina body clay, crystals, stones and Zen, a fine rarity rumored only to exist outside the city’s confines (from $549). FYI: Miraval Berkshires debuts this summer.
Napa Valley, Calif.







If Napa’s on your list, now’s the time to go. Cork dorks know Napa is tops with the blooming of yellow mustard flowers fluffing the vineyards into Monet-like vistas and the pre-summer lull in tourism. Accompany April’s “mustard season” views with tastings at a revamped family-owned winery, Trinchero Napa Valley, in northern St. Helena. (The Trinchero family, who created white Zinfandel, first immigrated to America from Italy through Ellis Island in the 1920s.) Five minutes from the winery, stop by the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone for a class or cooking demo. Book a room at the nearby Harvest Inn, whose grounds look like they’ve been anointed by a woodland fairy with a serious green thumb (from $299).
Santa Fe, NM





Santa Fe is a swirl of muted adobe bricks, eye-catching turquoise gems and green chile dishes. It’s also a piquant reminder that you don’t have to be on the coasts for a killer arts scene. Start your trip with an outing to Meow Wolf Art Collective’s “House of Eternal Return.” The interactive installation inside a 20,000-square-foot Victorian fun house seems straight out of a George R.R. Martin novel — he’s one of the project’s main backers. Further your culture dose with the Santa Fe Society of Artists’ outdoor fine art show running most spring weekends from, April 20, and the annual Canyon Road Spring Art Festival (May 10-11). Stay at La Posada de Sante Fe (from $199), which has its own art curator.
Lapland, Sweden






It may not be high season but the first sun in these parts instills such joy for locals that they often make outdoor sofas made of snow, blanketed in reindeer hides, and throw an accompanying barbecue. If you can’t crash such a party, enjoy a snowmobile expedition over the sea ice before the melt in late April/early May. Or plan your vacation for then and witness trees greening, flowers blooming and adorable reindeer calves taking their first steps. After a long day savoring the outdoors, make your crashpad the Icehotel, where you can reserve a lavish, photogenic room carved of ice crystalized from the Torne river (from $260). Or, embrace your inner kid at the Treehotel, where custom-built rooms hang suspended amid a pine forest (from $448).
Yo1 Wellness Center in Monticello, NY





Opened in June of last year, this Indian holistic wellness program sits on the grounds of Kutsher’s, the famed Borscht Belt grand dame from the Catskills’ heyday. Amid 1,300 acres of lakes and woodlands, embark on a personalized route to nirvana — or at least reduced cortisol levels. Guests at the all-inclusive resort can choose from one of six “pathways to wellness,” each three to 10 days long, targeting maladies from insomnia to infertility. Expect yoga, acupuncture, physiotherapy, naturopathic treatments like mud therapy, massage and reflexology, and the ancient Indian healing system of ayurveda to play starring roles. There’s also rooftop yoga and meditation to help channel your inner zen before the two-hour drive back to NYC (from $900).



