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(See directions by train, bus and car.)

​Our grounds are open to visitors 365 days a year, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting.
​Staff are available Monday through Saturday, except for the following holidays:
New Year’s Day
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Lincoln’s Birthday
Presidents Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Election Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day


​​​Download our Cemetery map.
For more detailed location information or site directions, please contact or visit the office.

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A Walk through Mount Hope

Nestled amid the green hills of Westchester County, Mount Hope overlooks the historic, peaceful valleys of the Saw Mill River, with glimpses of the majestic Palisades beyond the Hudson. Mount Hope is landscaped meticulously every day on behalf of its lot owners, and a permanent maintenance fund supports the cemetery’s ongoing care. Mount Hope is a nonsectarian cooperative association. A walk through Mount Hope is a journey through history. Many who have made the supreme sacrifice for their country rest in the shadow of imperishable monuments and inspired architecture. The 71st Regiment National Guard of the State of New York is but one of the many historically significant organizations whose legacy takes root in Mount Hope’s hallowed grounds.

A walk through Mount Hope is also a foray through nature. More than 40 labeled species of trees, from red oak to American elm, line the cemetery’s darting hills and scenic pathways. If you look closely into the treetops, you might just catch a glimpse of the red-tailed hawks, pileated woodpeckers and eastern bluebirds who call our grounds home.

Mount Hope Cemetery is a proud member of the New York State Association of Cemeteries, Metropolitan Cemetery Association and National Audubon Society.
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A Place for Remembrance

Mount Hope Cemetery is proud home to the peaceful repose of veterans of many of our nation’s armed conflicts. In a recent article, Lisa Zimmerman, board member of the Hastings Historical Society, chronicles the family history of James Daley, Jr., a veteran of World War I interred on our grounds. Reprinted with grateful permission:
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This Is a Cemetery

Lives are commemorated — deaths are recorded — families are reunited --
memories are made tangible — and love is undisguised.
This is a cemetery.

Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, historians seek
information and our heritage is thereby enriched.

Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay
warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life — not death — of a loved one.
The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source
of comfort to the living.

A cemetery is a history of people — a perpetual record of yesterday and a
sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is
worth loving and remembering — always.
— Unknown.
Need printed directions?
Mount Hope Cemetery Association
P.O. Box 248
50 Jackson Avenue ​(Jackson Avenue at Saw Mill River Road)
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
​(914) 478-1855
Note: Please call, rather than e-mail, with inquiries that are time-sensitive.
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