Best Halloween Streets in Langley: 6 Blocks to Walk

When: Halloween is Saturday, October 31. Most of these houses light up at dusk, and the best of it is roughly dusk to 8:30 pm.
Cost: Free. They're streets.
The map: Every house below is pinned on the Langley haunted house map, with photos.
Getting around: Park a few streets over and walk in. Don't block driveways, and stay off the lawns unless a house invites you in.

We spent most of October driving Langley after dark for the haunted map, and the thing we kept noticing is that great houses don’t come alone. One neighbour goes big, the house across the street answers, and by the third year the whole block is in on it.

That’s what this list is: not the single best house, but the streets where you can park once and walk for half an hour without running out of things to look at. We’ve ranked them by how much there is in a short walk, with a nod to the thumbs-ups readers have been giving houses on the map.

1. Yorkson: 209A Street near 84 Avenue (Willoughby)

Nothing else in Langley is close. Halloween of Yorkson is one short block where nearly every house on both sides is decorated, and this year’s theme is Vikings, with a full-size longship on a front lawn. Add up the thumbs-ups across its houses and it’s the most-loved spot on our map.

It gets busy, so go early, bring a flashlight for the kids, and leave the car several streets away. Check their Facebook page before you go in case of weather changes.

2. Wakefield Drive (Willoughby)

Five decorated houses within a couple of minutes’ walk, and they’re all different. There’s a whole corner lot of characters (a burlap scarecrow, a glowing flying saucer, spotlit headstones), a proper front-yard cemetery with little skull fences, a house washed in orange light, a lawn taped off like a crime scene, and a towering blow-up ghost. A sixth, with ragged ghosts hanging from a red maple, is just around the corner near 197 Street. It’s mostly fun-spooky rather than scary, which makes it a good one for younger kids.

3. The Walnut Grove loop: 212 Street, 212A Place and 93 Avenue

This is the biggest cluster we found outside Yorkson: ten-plus houses across the 9100 to 9300 blocks of 212 Street and 212A Place and the 21100 to 21400 blocks of 93 Avenue. Highlights are the Nightmare Before Christmas yard with a glowing toxic barrel on 93 Avenue, a glowing RIP tombstone and reaper a couple of doors down, a skeleton T. rex hugging a jack-o’-lantern, a pumpkin family on 212 Street, and a twelve-foot glowing-eyed skeleton on 212A Place. It’s a loop, so you can walk it as one big circle.

4. Murrayville: the 4600 block near 217 Street

Four houses in a row that each do one thing really well: two huge skeletons lit green by the front walk, a garage door wrapped so a skeleton looks like it’s bursting through it, a Hocus Pocus porch, and a Frankenstein door with a big blue ghost peeking from the hedge. Short and easy. If you have older kids, add the driveway of tall creepy figures and a towering pumpkin-headed reaper near 223 Street and 50 Avenue.

5. 7600 block of 211 Street (Willoughby)

Three houses side by side that cover the whole range. A giant grinning clown arch over the front walk (fair warning for anyone clown-shy), then right next door a soft purple house full of friendly ghosts, then a porch guarded by two towers of jack-o’-lantern inflatables that toddlers love. If your group has a brave kid and a nervous one, this block works for both.

6. Langley City: 205A Street, 50 Avenue and Grade Crescent

Not one street, but three good stops within a few minutes of each other. On the 4800 block of 205A Street there are two decorated houses with twelve-foot skeletons, a skull crawling out of the lawn and a huge spider in the front tree. On the 20200 block of 50 Avenue is Warren’s Manor, a front-yard walk-through with lights on 5:30 to 9:30 pm, stroller and wheelchair friendly, and the readers’ favourite single house on the map. Bring a non-perishable for the Langley Food Bank if you can. And on Grade Crescent at 200 Street, a big corner lot with webbed cedars, giant skeletons and a Victorian ghost couple hands out full-size bars.

Want an actual scare?

None of the streets above is a haunted house. For that, Brinkworth Dungeon in Murrayville (22200 block of 48 Avenue) is a ticketed haunted house running 7 to 10 pm nightly until November 15. Friday and Saturday nights have scare actors; Sunday to Thursday is a self-guided walk without them. Details and tickets are on their site.

A few tips for Saturday

Walk, don’t crawl. Driving slowly up and down a busy block with kids crossing is the one thing that makes these streets less fun. Park a few blocks away.
Start at dusk. The lights look best in the first hour after dark, and it’s before the busiest stretch.
Bring a flashlight or a headlamp, and something reflective for the kids.
Be a good guest. These are people’s homes and their weekends. Stay on the sidewalk, keep dogs leashed, and say thanks if you see the owners out front.

More Halloween: everything else on this weekend is on What’s on, the free and ticketed Halloween events are in Halloween in Langley, and if your street belongs on this list, add your house to the map. We’ll update this page every October.

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