Belcrest Memorial Park, located in Salem, Marion County, Oregon, is a beautiful, lush, green property that offers a sense of security, comfort and serenity to community members and grieving family members. For years, Belcrest Memorial Park has proudly served the needs of community residents regardless of culture, faith, or demographic background. The beautiful brick Tudor office, surrounded by explicitly cared for lawns, shrubs and trees greets visitors with a sense of dignity and pride, wordlessly expressing their dedication and compassion when meeting the needs of families. Since 1928, Belcrest has been known as the jewel of Salem, encompassing 70 acres of green lawns, strawberry plants in winter, and riotous and bountiful blooms in spring, summer and fall. As a member of the Dignity Memorial family network of cemetery service providers in the United States, staff at Belcrest Memorial Park continue to focus their attention on the needs and desires of grieving family members and loved ones. Belcrest Memorial Park offers services to all denominations and is an endowed care cemetery, meaning that it will be cared for in perpetuity. Offering double-depth lawn crypts, traditional burials, the columbarium niches in glass, bronze or marble as well as mausoleum crypts, individuals are able to choose from a variety of options. Wildlife are commonly seen throughout the park, and the Lakeside Cremation Garden offers a beautiful and serene location for the scattering of ashes. Belcrest Memorial Park has long served community founders and politicians, including two governors; Douglas James McKay and Earl Wilcox Snell, as well as Senator Charles McNary. The cemetery property is laid out in a circular pattern, with a continuous loop for traversing the property, called Camellia Drive South. Surrounded by calm and serene suburbia, the cemetery property offers a sense of seclusion, privacy and comfort. The relatively flat property offers easy access, and a plethora of shade trees and evergreen pines native to the Oregon countryside. Located south of Salem, Oregon, the cemetery property may be reached by taking Commercial Street SE to Liberty Road South, with a turnoff on to Browning Avenue South. |