Castaway Lodge

The Comforts of Home

Welcome to Castaway Lodge, your home away from home. Centrally located in the heart of Seadrift, Texas, and setting the standard for Seadrift Fishing Lodges with affordable convenience and the best the mid-coast has to offer, set in a coastal casual atmosphere.

From the comfort of our accommodations, our Homestead lifestyle and Garden-to-table Cuisine, to the command of the outdoors by our guides, we offer affordable convenience and a great experience for family groups, special occasions, team building, customer appreciation, corporate outings, and conferences.

The original footprint was built on a half-acre in 2007. Thanks to the tremendous support of our guests, in the Fall of 2015, we added over 11,000 square feet of accommodations, indoor dining/conference, and operations facilities. We’ve acquired 3 additional acres and 700′ of bayou-front leg stretching room, greenbelts, and parking. Come experience coastal hospitality and the NEW Castaway Lodge On The Bayou!  Lets Start 2026 Off with a bang!

You’re Here, Get Comfortable

Whether looking for a close-in staycation, new adventure, or client entertainment, you’ll find the best guides and accommodations in the business at Castaway Lodge. Throughout the grounds, you’ll find WIFI, well-thought-out logistics, comfort, and convenience set in a “coastal casual” atmosphere.

Dining/Conference Building

New for 2016 are new focal points, including the Dining/Conference Building with seating for 40 guests trimmed in knotty Alder built-ins; soaring ceilings and taxidermy, and the smells of Wendi’s home cooking.

Bayou Facility

Now with plenty of leg stretching room, the New for 2016 Bayou complex is another huge focal point with upgrade accommodations for up to 24 guests with massive wrap-around porches; full-size beds for couples; built-in gun racks; in-room refrigerators and much, much more. See the full list of amenities below.

Quarters Building

Directly adjacent to the Dining/Conference building and the outdoor kitchen, and consists of private bedrooms and in-room bathrooms and a large Great Room. The Great Room offers relaxed conversation and is centrally located with all the comforts of home!

Outdoor Kitchen

There is a large outdoor kitchen, which is a focal point around dinner time and is a massive conversation area with a wet bar and big screen TV; outdoor fireplace; and consists of 2,500 sf of entertaining area.

Southern – Garden To Table

At Castaway Lodge, you can expect “The Tastes of Texas” made with the freshest ingredients: local, along with our garden-grown produce, and seafood made fresh daily. Baked delights and desserts are served nightly.

Evening Activities

Kicking around the lodge at night, our facility is set up with multiple tables for poker and dominoes; 700′ of bayou frontage with 2 pavilions; picnic tables; 4 horseshoe pits; and washer boards. For the “Hard Chargers” we’ve got Night Vision “Spot N Stalk” guided hog hunts shooting our late gen Night Vision and thermal along with Flounder Boat & Wade Gigging as well as “Night Wade Fishing” trips.

Lodge Spotlight

Coastal Bounty

Rich Southern dining is a specialty at The Lodge, and you can’t beat Wendi’s home cooking. Take a deep breath and let her spoil you with the best tastes of the South. She starts with the freshest ingredients grown and preserved here on The Homestead, including seasonal produce, and pairs them with local Seafood; “Choice” Certified Black Angus, and specialty cuts of Pork, Fish, and Poultry. Scratch baking, including desserts and breads, fills the air.

Cuisine – Southern Homestead – Garden-To-Table

At Castaway Lodge, you can expect “The Tastes of Texas” made with the freshest ingredients!
The best flavors start with the best ingredients, and most are found right here in our gardens.

   Breakfast – Hot and Continental
   Boat Lunches made by our staff daily – fishing & some Cast & Blast Trips
   Buffet during waterfowl season – hot and typically weather-appropriate
   Dinner is “Chef’s Choice” / Wendi sets the menu / varies seasonally from the gardens.
  Wendi’s Famous Chicken Fried Steak

   Hand-cut Steaks, Choice Black Angus Ribeyes
   Famous Inch & a Quarter Center Cut Bone-In Pork Chops
   Red Snapper “on the half shell” Blackened/Grilled
   Mahi Mahi Grilled
   Surf & Turf Combinations w/Grilled Quail
  Scratch-baked desserts and bread; family recipes handed down, and Texas Faves

Amenities

   Massive New Facilities Completed Spring 2016
   Over 15,000 sf of comfort & accommodations
   3 Plus Acres and 700′ of bayou waterfront with “plenty of leg room”
   Separate but adjacent campuses offer “multiple ecosystems” and privacy
   Each Campus Can be booked “exclusively”
   Private rooms, in-room bath, air conditioning/heat
   Accommodates 40 Guests
   Indoor Dining and Entertainment
   Conference room with media support
   Local Watermen, Guides, Owner Operators
   Salt of the Earth People, Hard working, Passionate
   Authentic Texas Mid-Coast Experience
   Great Rooms with Leather Sofas and tables
   Homestead Lifestyle, scratch baking, garden-to-table
   Baked delights, Wendi’s Special “touch”

   Southern Hospitality
   Large high-resolution LCD Satellite TVs
   Outdoor Kitchen/Grilling Area/Bar/Texas Pit BBQ
   Outdoor Fireplace
   Casual & Coastal Corporate, Seadrifter Style!
   Well Appointed for Corporate Entertaining
   Centrally located in the Heart of Seadrift
   2,500 Square Foot Outdoor Kitchen/Dining
   Ice Machines on each campus
   Massive Flagstone Bayou Fireplace
   Scattered Pavillions, Horseshoe Pits & Washer Areas
   Game Storage, cleaning, and processing
   Complimentary WIFI – 200 & 600mb
   Mud Room For Gear Staging & Dressing (Wade Fishing/Duck Hunting)
   Ground Transportation, Guide Transport To and From Launch for the smoothest and safest boat ride.