The Port Isabel Chamber of Commerce is also home to a Lighthouse artifact and historic display which is free to the public. Within walking distance of the Lighthouse are the City's other Museums. Both are state-of-the-art facilities. The Historical Museum is housed in the 1899 Champion Building, known for the fish mural painted on the facade in 1906 by a local fisherman. The Historical Museum has two exhibit levels and a gift shop. Next door, Treasures of the Gulf Museum features the plight of three Spanish shipwrecks which met their fate in 1554, just 30 miles north of Port Isabel.

Port Isabel also offers the enchantment of life by the bay... fishing from the pier or by private charter, or wading into the bay can produce trophy Speckled Trout, Redfish, Drum, Sheepshead, Sand Trout or Snook and is a lure for the experienced and novice alike all in the Laguna Madre Bay, one of the largest hypersaline coastal basins in the U.S.

AND, Port Isabel is just 2.6 miles from South Padre Island, one of the top three beaches in the U.S.!

Or spend time with the marine life aboard one of the many nature charters as the dolphins dance along the surface of the sparkling waters of the Laguna Madre Bay.

Experience historic Port Isabel . . . family friendly, great food, accommodations, shopping, small town charm and coastal seabreezes. Work & Live or Stay & Play!