Two-acre site in a meadow northeast of Sisters. Established in 1880 adjacent to a Civil War–era military camp. Among attention-getting grave markers: “COWBOY / 19 YRS / HORSE KICKED.” Another man’s grave gives the name of his murderer. Free tours since 2023.

On the outskirts of Baker City. Hosted burials in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for 46 people of Chinese descent, many of them railroad and gold mine laborers. Most bones later exhumed and returned to China; just one original marked grave remains. Pavilion with stone prayer house and small pagoda dedicated in 2002.

Incorporated in 1859, the same year Oregon became a state. Abounds with trees and native plants. On-site Hope Abbey Mausoleum—built in 1914 in the Egyptian Revival style, with papyrus bundles and twin cobras carved into the entrance archway—hosts a “Music to Die For” concert series.

Unusual for its steep terraces, which are built into the hillside on the north end of a former mill town by the mouth of the Umpqua River. Gravesites belong mostly to the early pioneers of the area. Best in a shroud of melancholy coastal fog.

In continuous use since its dedication in 1860, the year this gold rush city was incorporated. More than 5,000 gravesites, many boasting elaborate markers, across 32 acres on a hilltop. Well-known for its regular talks and guided tours, generally focusing on early Jacksonville; programs have covered saloon culture, the law, and courtship customs.

Established in 1885, when Klamath Falls was still known as Linkville. Redesign in 1931 gave it formal, tree-shaded lanes and stone portal entrances. Neighboring gravesites belong to men who once clashed in the area’s turn-of-the-century range wars, which pitted cattle and sheep ranchers against one another. 

Now-iconic Portland destination. Recorded first burial in 1846 and today counts approximately 25,000 residents; see if you can spy Hawthorne, Dekum, Lovejoy, and Macleay. Also a de facto arboretum. Offers tours, including a "Tombstone Twilight" offering this fall that, alas, has already sold out.

Final resting place for shipwrecked sailors, Civil War veterans, and Daloose Jackson, a Coos Indian chief who died in 1907. Upkeep and service projects have for at least 20 years been performed by students at neighboring high school. Recent recipient of a $16,500 historic preservation grant.

Among the couple dozen buried here, in the far eastern reaches of Oregon: prospector and cattle rancher Joe Monahan. When his body was prepared in 1904 for burial, “Little Joe” was found to have female anatomy; news caused a sensation. Monahan’s full story will never be known, but historical record shows that some locals wondered at his sex but generally accepted him, for nearly 40 years, as a man.