I took my girlfriend here because she wanted to experience a "nature walk" in Lubbock. Rather than…read morerisking a rattle snake bite in the real nature, I took her here as a safer alternative. The Good: It's nice and quiet. They do have local indigenous plant life. There's a lovely little trail that goes around the entire facility. They have the biggest rosemary bush I've ever seen in my life. The Bad: It's quiet mostly because nobody ever goes here. Most people don't even know it exists. The local indigenous plant life is fairly unattractive. The prettiest area was actually infested with bees, so we didn't stick around it for very long. There's graffiti on one of the bridges inside the park. I might have been partial to it if it were some cool Banksy-esque tagging, but it was lame. When the adjacent lace floods, it leaves trash behind in the arboretum. Most things looked like they were dead or in some process of holding on for dear life. Overall: I'm not giving it just 1 star because I feel bad doing that for a public service that already looks like it's struggling. I can deal that sort of final blow. Go and check it out. Donate if you can. Maybe they'll get some real flowers.

I was surprised by how well everything was maintained, this proved to be a pretty nice evening. We…read morewent around Halloween, and they had a huge pumpkin walk. No, no -- there was not a large pumpkin walking around but rather hundreds of local people/organizations carved pumpkins. The creations were put on display and lit so everybody could enjoy seeing the little orange works of art. I wish I had counted, but there must have been two thousand pumpkins. Some organizations had a hundred or more carved and decorated for there display. I don't have a green thumb, so I enjoyed seeing the hard work of others. I appreciated the work put into the grounds and loved the seclusion and chance to not feel like I live in a desert.

Being a veteran I always wanted a way to help our service men and women while serving and after…read moreserving. Giving blood was a very important part of that. Once I got out I entered the medical field and it became a passion to know that my donations have saved many lives. If Christ shed his blood for me the least I could do is donate mine to help others. Vitalant blood donation center is a great place to help me achieve my passion to help others. They're professionals at what that do and care for all their donors. It's a family that shares my passion to do for others whose lives can be saved by my donation. Stop I. And help save a life.

Vitalant made it so easy to donate blood. They do pop up locations in the South Plains Mall fairly…read moreoften. I went for the first time last month and received a Texas Tech themed Blood Drive Tshirt and free movie tickets. I give blood out of a desire to help others, but dang I sure liked getting the cool Tshirt and movie tickets.

If you want to delve into different kinds of dog sports this is a good club to join. Lots of…read morehandlers and dogs compete in performance and companion sports to help you get into something fun. Agility, obedience, Rally, scent work, barn hunt, and FastCat.

South Plains Obedience Training Club - trains owners to teach their dogs in a positive way what it…read moreis that they want the dog to do. Building a relationship with your dog takes time and consistency, and we encourage you to give SPOTC a chance to teach you how to make your dog a super well behaved family member who you want to be with you all the time!