Lucas Lodge

This is the place to stop for lunch on your jetboat ride. The meal was fantastic, lemonade, lots of fresh vegetables, homemade biscuits, mashed potatoes, gravy and Ice cream with blackberry sauce to end the meal.
I enjoyed sitting at the big table passing the food around and talking with people as if they were family members, it has a nice home atmosphere. Lucas Lodge is a place you wish you could have in your home town to be able to go eat anytime you wish.

We stopped on our Jerry’s Rogue River Jet Boat Tours for dinner… there was no one to greet us, and no signs to direct us (fortunately we’d been there before and knew where to go). They rudely told us we were waiting in the wrong spot… then the manager refused to take our money and said that we would have to wait outside in the heat for 10 minutes before she’d even take our money. Sean, our jet boat tour guide told us to be sure to tell them that they needed to serve us right away and not wait for the next boat to come in and serve us together. He knew what he was talking about. When we finally convinced them that serving us right away was what they needed to do, they finally seated us.
They served family style a very delicious «down home» meal of cucumber salad, cole slaw (both satisfactory), homemade biscuits (yummy) with a mound of butter like substance, really delicious corn on the cob, green beans with bacon, wonderful fried chicken (who ever cooks that at home any more). And for dessert, vanilla bean ice cream with a homemade black berry sauce.
As soon as we finished eating we hiked back to the boat dock and waited only 7 minutes for the boat. I’m not sure what we would have done if we had not insisted on not waiting to be served, they had only just started to serve the other boat when we left!

If you are in southwestern Oregon, you MUST go here. It is such a cute weird place. If you are into that kind of thing, go here. Our room was accidentally given to somebody else so we were upgraded to a cottage which had lots of character. With two in our party, we definitely has lots of space. Everything was old but clean– as can be expected from a place that had been running since 1910. It is in a beautiful area.

we went to stay at Lucas Lodge this summer… WOW. IT WAS FILTHY AND HAD MOUSE POOP IN THE CABIN ALL OVER THE FLOORS. WE TOOK OUR BABY AND COUNDNT EVEN LET HER PLAY … I opened drawers to put clothes in and there was a mouse nest and 3 DEAD baby mice in the drawer. Sitting on the front porch we noticed more poo… only now it was from BAT infested rafters and bats poured out of the porch at twilight. HUNDREDS of them. One of the reviews is written by the girl that worked the front desk… oh and the front desk called me 4 times asking me to pay… I paid on check in and gave them the info to clear it up 3 times!!! what a joke!!! The scenery was beautiful, but will NEVER stay there again NEVER!!!
BIG waste of $$ (I realize Im in the woods and expect country living, but the poop was awful, we cleaned the entire first night) ooh and the hide a bed wasnt made, they gave US the sheets to make it ourselves… really!

Do not miss out on this spot! If you are in or around Gold Beach, OR make the drive to Agness or hop on a jetboat and let someone else do the driving. Either way, get here, because the food is hands down the best! I have had the pleasure of visiting Lucas Lodge about a dozen times over the last 3 years, while guiding tour groups on trips through the Oregon Coast. Not only are the folks at Lucas Lodge easy to work with, they know good food.
This is a family owned lodge that goes back generations in the area. Remember to pay in advance– one flat rate for your entire meal, and prices differ for kids and adults. In general, you will pay about $ 20 – 25 per person including tax and tip, but trust me, it is worth it. On a sunny day, you can park it under a grape vine that has to be older than my grandma while you wait for your meal, sun yourself on the meadow, or play a little badminton. There are some fun photo opps like old equipment and a row of overalls hanging on a line, but when the dinner bell rings get your booty in your seat cause it is about to get crazy.
Lucas Lodge has two seating areas. One is a screened porch with 3 large tables and the other is outdoors; I believe it has 3 – 4 large tables as well. Both are fine, but on a hot day or a rainy day head for the screened area if you can. Cooking is done in the kitchen and dining area of the old house, and the living room is used as a waiting area with a piano, a variety of games, and memorabilia to check out. Bathrooms are outdoors, separate buildings with full plumbing for each gender. There are also two bathrooms inside the lodge if you have mobility problems or the others are full.
For lunch or dinner, you will notice several folks (usually younger folks, but sometimes the owner assists as well) bringing out bowl after bowl of food, in addition to fresh lemonade and iced tea. The strange thing is that the bowls keep coming! They will even ask you if there is a specific dish or piece of chicken that you want and have not had yet. Lucas Lodge serves meals family style, so you will pass the peas and say thank you and please and you will quite possibly meet a few new folks if your party is small enough to fit at one of the large tables with another.
You will see biscuits that are homemade (as everything else is) — make sure to try them with the homemade blackberry jam at your table. You will see a variety of garden fresh veggies, mashed potatoes, and oh my God the chicken! The fried chicken here is amazing. Occasionally they will add a second protein to change it up (I have seen ribs on occasion or salmon), but in general you are going to Lucas Lodge for some awesome, crunchy, diet killing fried chicken. For dessert enjoy vanilla ice cream with fresh blueberry sauce on top. If you have vegetarians or special dietary needs in your party call ahead– they are really accommodating. You can also get coffee for no extra charge if you ask for it– again, the people here are really nice and they will do whatever they can to make you feel welcome. I loved this place and can’t wait to return!

Love Love Love this place did the jet-​boat tour when I made the reservation they said they have 3 places to eat at you pick the day you check in. Read the reviews and decided this was the place and for 24.00 it cant get any better. This is 7^th generation of the family owned lodge you eat family style on an screened porch, which is nice as you can visit and get to know the people from your tour/​boat, the table is filled with plates of THE BEST fried chicken, local veggies, corn, green beans, coleslaw, beets, cucumbers an tomatoes. Plates of bbq pork ribs and real homemade yummy biscuits mashed potatoes an gravy. If you still have room as you can eat all you want, there is vanilla ice cream with a homemade berry sauce, If your in Agness or doing the jet-​boat tour, Don’t miss dining here.

OMG! can’t believe no one has reviewed this yet! We took a vacation to Brookings Oregon and wanted to do a boat tour on the Rogue River. We ended up deciding to go with Jerry’s rogue river jet boats (great decision it was SOOO fun, wet and REALLY PRETTY!!) and they let us pick from like 3 places to go stop for lunch that were right off of the river. one was a buffet, second one was lucas lodge and the other was like a sandwich shop. it was explained to us that lucas lodge was «family style» like the samoa cookhouse (they’re great too=) so we decided on that one and OOOOh MAAAAH GAAAAWWWSH! everything was TO DIE FOR! gravy, pan fried chicken was, dare i say it, it was actually better than mine. the best!!! vegetables were fresh from the garden! mashed potatoes were good too. and the biscuits!! don’t even get me started on the biscuits! theyre not as good as my grandma’s (you haven’t tasted biscuits unless you’ve tasted hers) but the’re a close second! and there’s a honey glaze on the biscuits that is SOO good! this place gets a ¹⁰⁰⁄₁₀! dessert wasn’t anything special, but WHO CARES!?! after a meal like that? ambience is super cute inside the house and you eat outside in a big long picnic table outside=) really pretty over there too=D