CORE

An Immersive Experience to the CORE

The colors of a southern New Mexico sunset reflecting off custom-made sandstone formations and sounds of distant wildlife quiet as a sudden storm rolls in with lightning, thunder and downpours. Guests aren’t in the wilderness, they’re at Hobbs, New Mexico’s Center of Recreational Excellence (CORE) where a lazy river, body slides, beach-entry pool, rain-simulating water feature, raft slide, water falls, play features and show sequences synchronize to immerse guests in the area’s “story.” Aquatic designers, pool builders, architects and electrical engineers poured all their creativity and problem-solving skills into the CORE to make the city’s and donors’ visions a reality with solutions like custom LED lights turned into a ballet of color-changing dodecahedrons not found anywhere else in the world. The CORE resembles arid terrain of eroded sandstone rock formations, ocotillo cacti and bountiful scenery creating adventures for guests that will keep them coming back time and again.