Things To Do in Portales

A 1997 George Williams design, the Reese Golf Center course gives golfers of all stripes pleasant challenges as they send shots skyward off of lush bermuda grass. Water enters play on half of the holes but only crosses the fairway on two, allowing golfers to safely attack the open fairways and leave collared life preservers at home. As players make their way around the course, they chase shots inside golf carts equipped with GPS tracking systems. These systems allow riders to see their position on the course, helping them determine the exact yardage to the flagstick.

Course at a Glance:

• 18-hole, par 72 course
• Total length of 6,367 yards from the back tees
• Course rating of 69.9 from the back tees
• Course slope of 120 from the back tees

The maze is open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday September 10–November 26. Kids age 4 and younger are free. Guests who redeem the Groupon in September get a free hayride (a $1 value), and guests who redeem it in November get a free hayride to Pumpkin Hallow (a $5 value), teeming with carved, illuminated pumpkins.

The fitness aficionados at Training Ground aren’t content to slog through dusty workout regimens. Instead, they introduce exercisers to TRABOKI, a fresh approach to fitness co-created by the facility’s owners that fuses elements of personal training, boot camp, and kickboxing into one intense total-body workout. Utilizing functional movements to build strength, TRABOKI shakes up uninspired routines with a new workout every day, keeping muscles more delightfully confusing than an episode of Yo Gabba Gabba! directed by David Lynch. A similarly novel approach to exercise, Tabata classes whisk groups through 30-minute power sessions of high-energy interval training. The results gained from both TRABOKI and Tabata carry over to Training Ground’s other exercise offerings, including personal-training programs.

Not Just Hair's skilled stylists put their training and creativity to work when beautifying tresses with a full slate of salon services, including haircuts, professional styling, and smoothing conditioning treatments. Crew members gussy up unadorned manes with perms and color and expunge undesirable fuzz with waxing services. True to its name, Not Just Hair further boosts beauty by whitening teeth and applying makeup to blank elbows.

Dance With Me's 5,000 square feet of dance floors beckon beginners and dance experts alike to move their bodies during group and private lessons. The club offers lessons in more than a dozen styles of dance, including romantic Latin rumba dancing, uptempo East Coast swing, and the beginner-friendly fox trot. The 8,500-square-foot facility also welcomes events such as wedding receptions, birthday parties, and quinceañeras.

Owners Jeff and Michelle Dow met at the University of Iowa on athletic scholarships for gymnastics. After decorated careers that included spots on the U.S. Nationals team, the duo moved to Lubbock and founded Tega Kid's Superplex in 1995. Assisted by a skilled staff, they entertain and educate kids in teamwork and the athletic arts during sports programs, camps, and events. Though planted in gymnastics classes and fertilized with hand-grip chalk, the 18,000-square-foot facility has blossomed into a diverse space that teaches noncompetitive dance, cheerleading, tumbling, and swimming lessons that follow the USAG Junior Olympic Program's curriculum. The facility also houses a preschool, afterschool activities, and summer events and is a licensed provider of Motion Evolution, an interactive fitness program for kids.

Each of Hub City CrossFit's coaches were drawn to CrossFit after becoming disappointed with traditional globogyms, hoping to inspire in their students a newfound vigor and passion for fitness with energetic training regimens. CrossFit routines don't only keep the mind engaged with varying daily workouts, they focus on utility by using functional movements that serve a purpose, such as squatting, rowing, or teleporting. With regular tracking of Workouts of the Day, the gym fosters a friendly competition between members, all while building a strong, health-conscious community of like-minded members with its intense cardio and weight training.