Nearby | Tarpon Lodge - Part 5

Five Places In Florida That Time Forgot

Posted on February 2, 2013
By Diane Bair and Pamela Wright, Globe correspondents
Pine Island, Tarpon Lodge Reviews

If you think the Sunshine State is nothing but strip malls and over-the-top amusement parks, you haven’t seen the real Florida. Yes, it still exists — enchanting pockets where the local fishing pier is a happening zone, and sandy trails lead to lush jungles of live oak, strangler fig, and gumbo limbo trees. Exit off the interstate and explore a world of tiny islands and powdery beaches you can sleep on, with time out to paddle under a canopy of mangroves in the company of manatees. Hesitant as we are to share, here are five favorite slices of old Florida:

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BOGO SPECIAL PROMO Celebrating Pineland’s 110th Birthday!

Posted on August 18, 2012
Events, Pine Island, Special Promotion

From August 19th until October 31, 2012, buy one full price weeknight’s stay and get a 2nd weeknight for FREE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY PINELAND! CALL TODAY! Tel.#239-283-3999

Buy Sunday get Monday free, buy Monday get Tuesday free, buy Tuesday get Wednesday free, or buy Wednesday get Thursday free! [applies to consecutive nights and new reservations only; Friday & Saturday nights excluded; sorry no exceptions]

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Tarpon Lodge Featured on CNN Travel: Top 10 coastal inns

Posted on December 30, 2011
By Jeff Book, CNN Travel (Coastal Living)
Pine Island, Recreation, Restaurant Reviews, Tarpon Lodge Reviews

Plan a weekend getaway to one of these coastal inns for inviting accommodations, great food and plenty to keep you busy. Or, just kick up your feet and relax!

Tarpon Lodge

Tarpon Lodge offers waterside accommodations in the original 1926 inn and auxillary buildings, plus fishing and boating day trips with osprey, egret and dolphin sightings; 239/283-3999.

Eat: The Tarpon serves always fresh (never frozen!) fish and outstanding blue crab-and-roasted corn chowder. Bert’s Bar & Grill in Matlacha, an islet towards the mainland, features tasty seafood, live music and dockside dining.

Do: Hike the Calusa Heritage Trail that winds among ancient shell mounds and the remnants of an impressive cross-island canal built by the Calusa Indians. Or, rent beach cruisers from Pine Island Cycles; 239/560-0320; or vessels from Gulf Coast Kayak to paddle the area’s placid inlets.

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Tarpon Lodge, A Trip To The Past

Posted on July 7, 2011
By Capt. Rob Modys
Cabbage Key, Fishing, Fishing & Boating, Restaurant Reviews, Tarpon Lodge Reviews

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the expression, “Old Florida”. Most of the time the description is close, but not right on the money. Tarpon Lodge on Pine Island, in my opinion, is the exception.

My wife, JoNell, has a fairly grueling travel itinerary associated with her job. She goes on excursions both near and far to preach the gospel of vacationing in the Collier County area of Florida. In the month of May, her birthday month, she traveled to New York City and San Francisco and spent her big day on the road, or in the skies as it were. She very much wanted to do something special for her birthday. She told me so, but our schedules just didn’t mesh. The window of opportunity was made smaller when she told me she had another trip scheduled to the state of Texas in early June. What’s a guy to do? ….

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Enjoy Florida’s bounty on Cabbage Key

Posted on April 11, 2011
By Janet K. Keeler, Times Food and Travel Editor
Cabbage Key, Fishing, Fishing & Boating

Next to the Pineland Marina on Pine Island is the Tarpon Lodge, also owned by the Wells family. Built in 1926, the lodge sustained major damage in Hurricane Charley and has been extensively updated. Furnishings are lovely, and beds are supremely comfortable. Rates are $115 to $295, depending on location and the season. Call (239) 283-3999 or go to tarponlodge.com. A night or two in each place will give you a satisfying sample of the area. The sunset from the Tarpon Lodge is spectacular.

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Florida’s Secret Islands: Discover Matlacha/Pine Island

Posted on March 10, 2011
By Jeff Book, Coastal Living
Cabbage Key, Fishing & Boating, Pine Island, Recreation, Restaurant Reviews, Tarpon Lodge Overview, Tarpon Lodge Reviews

Pine Island’s sparse traffic–and the bike path running from one end to the other–makes it ideal for cycling. Hikers take the Calusa Heritage Trail, which winds among ancient shell mounds and the remnants of an impressive cross-island canal built by the Calusa Indians, who settled here around A.D. 1. Trail signs illustrate the thriving seaside village that greeted Spanish explorers in the early 1500’s.

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On the Edge of Old Florida

Posted on October 6, 2009
By by Patricia Letakis | Photography Jon Whittle | Florida Travel + Life
Pine Island, Recreation, Tarpon Lodge Reviews

A trip to Southwest Florida’s outer islands shows us it really is possible to live without TV and WiFi

It’s one of those Florida days in early summer when mornings are gloriously hot with crisp blue skies and evenings take a mysterious turn, morphing into a spectacle of thunderbolts. Eager to reach my destination — Tarpon Lodge on Pine Island — before the heavens dump buckets of rain, I leave North Fort Myers behind, whizzing across causeways and bridges and cutting through Matlacha, a fishing-village-turned-artist-colony where brightly colored shacks blur into a rainbow as I speed along. The final leg before arriving on the 17-mile-long Pine Island is a stretch of wetlands where telephone poles serve as canvases for local artists who paint decorative fish, hibiscus and manatees on them. I like this place already.

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