Lone Mountain Cemetery

You are walking through what was once the most prestigious burial ground in San Francisco. When Lone Mountain Cemetery opened in eighteen fifty-four, it was designed as a serene landscape of rolling hills and oak trees, intended to offer an escape from the dusty, growing city. Its winding paths were intentionally named after famous East Coast graveyards like Green-Wood and Mount Auburn to project an air of established elegance. Families frequently visited the grounds on Sundays, treating the site as a public park where they held picnics among the graves of senators and pioneers.