For more than 100 years, staff at Mountain View Cemetery have served the needs of Oakland and San Francisco Bay area families. Since the early 1860s, the beautiful cemetery property has been lovingly cared for by generations of ground keepers. Offering a variety to all faiths and cultures, staff at Mountain View Cemetery are proud to continue serving the emotional and physical needs of Bay Area residents.

Structures on the property, including the Main Mausoleum Chapel and the Tower Chapel, and beautiful structures such as the Charles Crocker crypt on Millionaire's Row, offer visitors to Mountain View Cemetery a beautiful and tranquil location to honor and remember their loved ones and dignity, solitude and peace. Covering over 225 acres, the cemetery property offers traditional burial and graves, side-by-side graves, double-depth graves as well as a gardens for cremated remains.

The cemetery property also offers a crematorium, a columbarium, and the mausoleum and chapels, which serve the needs of grieving family members and loved ones. The Fountain and Gothic Chapel is one of the most beautiful on the property, and the columbarium offers glass- front niches, as well as niches fronted in marble or granite in indoor and outdoor locations.

The mausoleum offers both indoor and outdoor crypts, companion crypts, couch crypts, and end-to-end crypts as single crepes, depending on need and desires. The crematorium and its beautiful obelisk offer a variety of garden wall niches or an urn garden, offering family's a variety of options for memorialization.

Mountain View Cemetery is a unique blend of graveyard, garden, park and churchyard designed by famous architect Frederick Olmstead. Landscaping includes California live oaks, Italian stone pine, Italian cypress and Lebanese cedar trees, all offering year-round shade, comfort, color and beauty throughout the property.

Start located in Alameda County, the cemetery is located slightly northeast of downtown Oakland near Piedmont. Visitors to the property may take Interstate 980 or 580, with turnoffs onto Broadway Terrace or Moraga Avenue th to reach the sprawling acres, pathways and ponds located on the property.