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Birchwood Dairy Farm is one of most popular agri-tourism destinations in Abbotsford. Located on 220 acres off Fadden Road, this family-owned and operated dairy farm has been drawing visitors since it opened in 1968. Visits to this farm is open to the public all week long. An ice cream parlor and a processing plant are onsite magnets for this dairy farm with some 120 milking cows. The farm is self-sustained, growing enough silage and hay to feed its cows year-round. Read more…

Fun-loving locals and visitors of Abbotsford have at least four craft breweries to pick from. And most likely, House Brewing on West Railway Street would be their top pick. Its motto “Good Beers + Good Times” sends an invitation quite compelling. Field House Brewing opened in 2016, with Josh Vanderheide behind its establishment. Josh initially learned the ins and outs of brewing craft beers through his various clients in advertising and design. He maintains too that his profession as a Read more…

The Gur Sikh Temple is an important local landmark not just because it’s on the crest of a hill. This temple with a museum on South Fraser Way is also symbolic of the rich cultural mix in Abbotsford. In 2002, Canada designated this temple as a national historic site. This designation recognizes the pioneer role it played in the Sikh immigration to North America. Sikhs notably constitute 17% of the population in the Abbotsford-Mission Census Metropolitan Area. This slice is Read more…

Clayburn Village is a Heritage Conservation Area off the TransCanada Trail, one of the historic points of interest in Abbotsford. This charming village is in the history books as the first company town of British Columbia. It was established following the foundation of the Vancouver Fireclay Company in1905. The company set up that year its brick plant on a 20-acre site at the north flank of Clayburn Road (TransCanada Trail). Brick houses that the company initially rented out to its Read more…

The central location of Mill Lake Park in Abbotsford easily makes it one of the most popular parks in the city. As winsome for visitors, this park also offers many recreational activities both on land and water-based in its centerpiece, eponymous lake. The name of the park’s lake was from a sawmill built along lake’s shore at the turn of the century. The company behind the mill grew to eventually become one of the top employers of British Columbia during Read more…

The Fishtrap Creek Park stretches along the eastern corridor of MacLure Road and serves the Abbotsford community in two ways. It was first developed as a stormwater storage basins system. The improvements that followed merited having a park in the creek area. This park is thus under Abbotsford’s Integrated Stormwater Management Plan (ISMP). The health of watersheds like Fishtrap Creek under this action plan are not only protected and preserved. An ISMP, at the same time, addresses current watershed issues, Read more…

The Reach Gallery Museum is located on Veterans Way just east of City Hall at the Abbotsford municipal complex. This museum, which opened in 2008, is housed in a 20,000-square-foot LEED-certified building. Visitors of the museum can browse permanent and rotating exhibits on its 6,100-square feet gallery. The museum’s displays feature not only local and regional themes but also content national in nature. The Reach is an award-winning museum. Voices of the Valley, its permanent exhibit received in 2016 a Read more…

The Mennonite Heritage Museum is located on Clearbrook Road near the TransCanada Highway in Abbotsford. It opened in January 2016 as the first museum in the Fraser Valley dedicated to the history of the Mennonite religious-cultural group. This museum features a permanent exhibit hall telling the story of the Mennonites from their beginning in the 16th century. Its displays tracing to 500 years back relive these religious folks’ early days with the Anabaptists. From these exhibits, museum visitors will learn Read more…

Matsqui Trail Regional Park stretches on the south banks of the Fraser River and is accessible from Tall Road. Its area spreads north of Abbotsford and across from the town of Mission. The park’s centerpiece and namesake pathway is a level dike trail that extends for more than 6 miles along the Fraser River. The trail provides scenic views of the Fraser and Cascade Mountains. The quiet farms that border the Fraser Mountains look spectacular, too, from this trail. The Read more…

Castle Fun Park is a family-oriented amusement park on North Parallel Road adjacent to the south of the condominium complex Mountain View Village. This fun attraction in Abbotsford is owned by the Wiebe family which was also instrumental in the establishment earlier of Scandia Golf & Games in Kelowna. The Wiebe family established Castle Fun Park in 1989 after moving to Abbotsford. The family’s head, Hank Wiebe, was a handyman fascinated with building castles, hence the park’s theme. Admission to Read more…