The most popular area attractions continue to be Lightouse Beach in Port Lavaca, the Formosa Wetlands Walkway, Matagorda Island State Park, Port O'Connor Beach Park, Bayfront Park in Seadrift and Magnolia Beach. The tropical, seaside environment and community charm add to an attractive, family oriented vacation. The cost of vacationing in Calhoun County is among the most affordable in the nation.
Accommodations range from full-service hotels to quaint bed and breakfasts.
It is also an area rich in history, with such colorful sites as Ranger Cemetery , the historic Half Moon Reef Lighthouse , the LaSalle Monument , the old Indianola townsite, the Matagorda Island Lighthouse , old town sites, numerous cemeteries and a total of 30 historical markers . It is a migratory flyway for 400 species of birds, and the area is a wintering ground for numerous species, including the endangered Whooping Crane . The county boasts eight birding sites on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail Area fishing charters also offer birding tours through the inland bay areas. During the spring, primary migration routes bring hundreds of thousands of birds through Matagorda Island State Park and the surrounding county. May. Matagorda Island State Park is unique because it is accessible only by private boat or passenger ferry from the dock in Port O'Connor .