Around Langley: forts, vineyards and taprooms

The reason to choose Langley over a downtown tower is everything within twenty minutes of it. A local-minded list, with sources.

Watercolour illustration of Fraser Valley vineyard rows, a grey barn and a flight of four small beers on a patio table — Illustration of Fraser Valley farm country; not a specific winery or brewery. illustration

Langley comes in two parts. The City of Langley, where Cascades stands, is a compact grid of shops and apartments. Around it, the much larger Township of Langley is farmland, small villages, vineyards and parks. Hotel guests get the convenience of the first and a short drive to the second. Here is what we would do, starting with the things that have nothing to do with the casino.

Fort Langley National Historic Site

Parks Canada runs a reconstruction of a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post on the banks of the Fraser, with timber buildings, a palisade and costumed interpreters. It is open seven days a week from 10 am to 4:30 pm, at 23433 Mavis Avenue in Fort Langley village. Daily admission is $10.00 for adults, $8.50 for seniors and free for youth 17 and under. Note that the bastions and upper gallery are currently closed for conservation; the rest of the site is open. The site is closed on 24, 25, 26 and 31 December and on 1 January. One local tip from the same page: from 16 November 2026 pay parking applies to everyone using the site's lot, visitors included.

Fort Langley village around it is good for an unhurried hour: cafés, antique shops and Trails End, a Smugglers-run spot on Tourism Langley's craft list.

Wineries of the Township

Tourism Langley says the Township is home to 10 licensed grape wineries and describes the local climate as cool, which it credits for flavour-forward wines. A few names from its list, with the one-line story each publishes:

Township 7 Vineyards & Winery: Started in 2001 in the seventh township of Langley, now with a cellar-style tasting room.
The Fort Wine Company: Fort Langley; founded in 2001 by a tugboat captain and cranberry farmer, Wade Bauck, around fruit wines.
Glass House Estate Winery: A family vineyard in South Langley on the Campbell Valley Wine Route, founded by Arthur and Ingrid de Jong.
Chapter Estates Winery: A 34-acre property with a 20-acre private vineyard.
Chaberton Estate Winery & Bacchus Bistro: South Langley, with daily tastings and a bistro.
Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery: Serving the community since 1974, with U-pick fields, a waffle bar and a bakery alongside the winery.
Also on the list: Estate 1909 Winery + Bistro, Otter Trail Winery, Backyard Vineyards, Festina Lente Estate Winery.

If you plan to taste at more than one, book a driver or a tour. The vineyards are spread across country roads, and BC's impaired-driving rules are strict.

The craft beer and cider trail

Tourism Langley says that over the past 15 years the Township has become a destination for craft beer and cider. Its current list is short and varied: Manners Cider in Brookswood-Fernridge; Trails End in Fort Langley; Brookswood Brewing Co., a family business started during the pandemic; Locality Brewing, which calls itself a field-to-glass brewery; Smugglers Trail Caskworks in Walnut Grove, founded in 2017 by rugby teammates Jamie Overgaard and Stephen Gregorig; and Camp Beer Co. in Willoughby, with an oversized outdoor patio. Read the field note on a taproom afternoon for a way to string a few together without driving after.

Parks and family days

Campbell Valley Regional Park and the Greater Vancouver Zoo are the two family outings the hotel itself recommends.
Fort to Fort Trail, which the hotel describes as a popular, family-friendly four-kilometre walk, dogs welcome on a leash.
Golf: the hotel points to a number of scenic local courses without naming them.
Circle Farm Tour: Tourism Langley's self-guided route around farms, markets and makers in the countryside.

Seasonal events

The hotel's own local page mentions the Arts Alive Festival and Aldergrove Fair Days as events worth planning around; check the organisers for this year's dates. At the casino itself, the Festival of Trees runs from 18 November to 16 December 2026, with trees decorated by local businesses for a community cause, and the hotel holds a Brunch with Santa on 23 December.

Further afield

Downtown Vancouver is about an hour by car according to the hotel, which makes it a day trip rather than a base. White Rock's beach and pier are south toward the border, and the Fraser Valley continues east toward Abbotsford and Chilliwack. We do not quote drive times we have not taken from a source; use the live routes on our getting there page.

Sources: Parks Canada, Fort Langley and fees; Tourism Langley wineries and craft breweries, cideries and distilleries; Coast local experiences and pet page; cascadescasino.ca (Festival of Trees). Checked 15 November 2026.