Whether you are memorializing a loved one, attending a holiday event or experiencing our art and architecture, we are glad to serve you at our six memorial-parks.
When visiting, we appreciate your kind cooperation with our basic guidelines.
Memorial-Park Hours:
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. during DST)
Open 7 days a week.
Mausoleum & Church Hours:
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Open 7 days a week.
Mortuary Visitation Hours:
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Open 7 days a week.
Mortuary staff on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
1-800-204-3131
When visiting, we appreciate your kind cooperation with our basic guidelines.
Memorial-Park Hours:
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. during DST)
Open 7 days a week.
Mausoleum & Church Hours:
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Open 7 days a week.
Mortuary Visitation Hours:
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Open 7 days a week.
Mortuary staff on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
1-800-204-3131
Visiting the Grounds
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- Please respect the privacy of people who are attending funerals or visiting family memorials.
- Please avoid walking across interment sections except to visit interment spaces. Walk with care around memorial tablets, lawn vases and sprinkler heads.
- Please ensure that children under 16 years of age are accompanied by an adult.
- Picnicking and lying down on lawns or benches on the grounds are prohibited.
- Loitering is prohibited.
- Pets are not allowed on the grounds or in the buildings.
- Feeding or disturbing birds is prohibited.
- Please be careful not to damage trees and plants or pick flowers.
- Smoking is not allowed in any of the buildings.
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Flowers
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- Please feel free to place fresh cut flowers at any of our Memorial - Park locations.*
- Please place potted plants no larger than eight inches in diameter or one gallon in volume on tablets or vases (in order to protect the grass).
- Please limit placements to no more than three per interment space.
- Cut flowers will be removed in approximately five days.
- Funeral flowers will be removed in approximately three days.
- Ornaments, borders, fences, planter boxes, balloons, spinners, statues, stones, or other items which do not conform to the rules and regulations of the Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks are not permitted. All placements not conforming to these rules will be removed.
*Artificial flowers are permitted at the Cathedral City location only, due to extreme climate conditions.
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Driving
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- Drive your motor vehicle at a safe speed, not exceeding the posted speed limit.
- Please turn down your radio so that the sound cannot be heard outside the vehicle.
- Please avoid parking in front of an open interment site unless you are part of a funeral procession.
- When parking on a hill or grade, turn your wheels safely into the curb, and be sure to set the parking brake.
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Photography
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- All photography (still or video) inside buildings is prohibited, except at funerals, weddings, and other private services with the consent of the person(s) in charge.
- No commercial or professional photography is allowed under any circumstances without the express written consent of Forest Lawn.
- No wedding photography in connection with weddings held outside the Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks is permitted anywhere on the premises.
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Your Safety is Important
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- Please be particularly careful when walking on slopes, damp grass, or grass covered with pine needles as they can be very slippery.
- After sunset, please stay within lighted areas.
- When you leave your car, lock it and take or conceal any valuables.
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Proposition 65
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- This facility contains one or more chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.
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Memorial-Park Hours:
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
(6:00 p.m. during DST)
7 days a week
Mausoleum & Church
Hours
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
7 days a week
Mortuary Visitation
Hours
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
7 days a week
Business Hours:
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Mortuary staff on-call 24
hours a day at:
1-800-204-3131
International Calls:
1-323-254-3131
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