Mount Auburn Cemetery
National Historic Landmark · Cambridge, Massachusetts
A hundred and seventy-five acres of landscaped hills and ponds on the Cambridge and Watertown line, consecrated in 1831 as the first garden cemetery in America — and, because it was the first large designed landscape in the country open to the public, the effective beginning of the American public parks movement that led to Central Park and the Emerald Necklace. It is a working cemetery, an arboretum, a National Historic Landmark and one of the best spring migration birding sites in the Northeast, all at once.
580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
FREE and open daily year round, though the gates close earlier than most visitors expect — check the season's hours. Maps are free at the entrance and are genuinely necessary. Driving and parking on the internal roads is permitted. Guided history, horticulture and birding walks run seasonally, some free and some ticketed. It is an active cemetery with daily burials.
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