Health & Fitness
A New View of Mountain View
Mountain View Cemetery is used by the community for recreation, exercise and celebration as well as the obvious.
Mountain View Cemetery may be the last place you’d think of as a place to spend leisure time. But one never goes there without seeing birdwatchers, people walking their dogs, adults pushing a stroller with a child in it, runners using the hills to condition their legs and lungs on the hills and pairs or trios of friends enjoying a walk.
It doesn’t take long at Mountain View to discover its important place in Oakland history as well. Many of Oakland’s and, indeed, California’s former leaders have found their final resting place there. The oldest gravestones date to the 1860’s.
Free docent led tours, open to the public, are conducted twice every month. A general tour, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery, which visits the graves of locally prominent and historic people, is offered on the first Saturday. On the
third Saturday, a special interest tour may focus on Trees of Mountain View,
Women of Note or Symbolism.
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In the Symbolism tour, the focus is more on interpreting what’s carved on the stone than who is in the grave.
Because of Easter and Memorial Day, the tour schedule for April and May has changed somewhat, but here’s what’s coming up:
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April 14 - Exploring Mountain View Cemetery
April 28 - Trees of Mountain View
May 11 - Exploring Mountain View Cemetery
May 25 - Wine, Women and Song
May 28 - 91st Annual Memorial Day Commemoration Program
