Yosemite Cemetery
This historic cemetery is located in Yosemite National Park and is worth some investigation.
Guide Sections
Use Yosemite Cemetery's guide sections to understand how this stop fits into the larger park plan.
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The Yosemite Cemetery is full of stories, told and untold. This quiet retreat on the west end of Yosemite Village is the final resting place of many of Yosemite's early residents. Some of those laid to rest here are well-known figures in the history of the park. Some spent their entire lives in Yosemite and are now almost forgotten. Others were visitors about whom very little was known, even at their time of their deaths. There are people who died here while on vacation, early settlers and homesteaders, old timers and infants, hotel proprietors and common laborers, each with a story. Many of these stories are entwined like strands in a rope that spans a century or more. Some stories are short and alone. Some, like those of American Indians, buried here are so hidden we may never know them.