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You decide to investigate further and turn in at the next sign leading you toward an array of buildings woven together by curving concrete pathways. A rooftop bar is shaded by a single long silver structure that gleams as it catches in the light in the Mojave sun. As you get your focus you come to realize its the wing of a commercial airplane, and in the distance another wing shades a series of storage containers of different colors, some even covered in graffiti, that seem to be dwellings of this hotel. You can hear Elvis playing over the speakers and can see people rollerblading in a dried up lazy river and skate boarding in dry pools. You also notice the slides at this “waterpark” aren’t as they initially appear either. Instead the raised area of land where slides once were is now abuzz with paintballers dodging and hiding behind the skeletal remains of the “abandoned” slide structures. A farm of solar panels seems to be harvesting light to power electric ATVs that you can hear off roading in the dried up lake that, according to the signs, was once “Lake Delores”



What is your initial reaction upon assessing the park?



