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Airfare of the Month: March is arguably the Valley’s best month, weather-wise, and therefore not the most opportune time to travel. But doesn’t spring in New York City sound not-horrible, too? Budget carrier Frontier Airlines is offering a smoking-hot $140 round-trip, nonstop fare to the Big Apple in March, with a midweek departure. Reserve those Hamilton tix. flyfrontier.com Airfare of the Month, Regional Crisis Division: For what it’s worth, Air Canada will fly you from...

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Anchors Away: Rocky Point made its long-awaited debut as a cruise hub in January when the Astoria, a vintage trans-Atlantic ocean liner operated by Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV), departed from the Sonoran town’s still-under-construction deep sea port. The 11-day sail of the Sea of Cortez that followed (including stops in Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlán and other beach cities on the “Mexican Riviera”) was scheduled to be repeated twice in January before CMV put the...

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Trailing Off: Enchantment Resort in Sedona, profiled at the top of this Explore section, is certainly all-in with the trail thing. In late October, the 218-room resort – epically ensconced in lush Boynton Canyon – broke ground on the Trail House, a one-of-a-kind staging lounge for hiking and biking that will open in summer 2020. More details to come. enchantmentresort.com Leaf-Peeper Alert: With prime fall color lasting just a few weeks in Arizona, Amara Resort...

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“PAS” Port: Looking for an arts-focused fall vacay? The interactive PASEO Project (Sept. 13-14) in Taos, New Mexico, is billed as “a participatory, multi-sensory experience” in which laser and video projections transform historic adobe buildings into “modern, moving monsters.” Groovy, right? paseoproject.org Cruising the Cortez: Though Rocky Point’s long-awaited deep-sea port will not be completed by its December target date, Cruise & Maritime Voyages will sail from the Sonoran burg as planned. The 550-passenger Astoria...