Explore Riverside Cemetery
See the variety of wildlife that make Riverside Cemetery their year-round home.
Cool Sweep in effect Friday, Aug. 16. Learn more.
See the variety of wildlife that make Riverside Cemetery their year-round home.
Get more information about visiting Riverside Cemetery as well as rules and regulations for grave plantings and decorations.
Information about pre-planning for final arrangements at Riverside Cemetery.
Learn more about The Chapel of Peace at Riverside Cemetery and burial options.
Learn more about the different interment options and services offered at Riverside Cemetery.
Learn more about planning an outdoor wedding at the historic Mount Hope Cemetery.
Learn more about how Rochester became known as a "City in a Forest".
Learn more about Riverside Cemetery - established in 1892.
These 75-minute tours include some topics covered on Sunday North Section tours as well as new material on an alternative route in the North Section.
Mysteries and unanswered questions abound in the cemetery. Join us for an eclectic assortment of head-scratching conundrums and curious unknowns. Are you good with puzzles?
Learn about those who faced the horrors and challenges of the American Civil War.
This foundational tour is a 90-minute walk of approximately a mile on paved roads and uneven terrain. Includes visits to the graves of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, as well as topics of local history, horticulture, geology, architecture, monument symbolism, and more.
A walk through 200 years of our architectural history with a local preservation architect.
Unimaginable circumstances! Unexplained phenomena! Unfortunate events! Unbelievable superstitions! These are just some of what affected Mount Hope Cemetery “residents” during their time among the living.
Explore the meaning of symbols, epitaphs, and funerary art that tell a story about the person buried there, and what they tell us about Victorians’ view of life, death, and rebirth.
This tour focuses on the geographic evolution of Mount Hope as a cultural landscape, from its founding as al rural cemetery to meeting today’s trends in cremation and natural burial.
A University of Rochester professor of Geology leads this fascinating tour that reveals how the glaciers formed the dramatic landscape of Mount Hope.
Rochester was home to more than two dozen breweries prior to Prohibition. Join us for this tour celebrating “liquid bread” and the men who brewed it. After the tour, join us to lift a glass of local beer to history.
Meet some permanent residents who bent, broke, or enforced the law, or whose lives met an unfortunate or grisly end.
Learn about the Victorians’ complex relationship with death and the curious rituals and customs they used to express their grief.