Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery Walking Tour
Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery Walking Tour
When you tour with non-profit Save Our Cemeteries you are helping to preserve and protect the historic cemeteries of New Orleans. Our tours are small and historically accurate. Lake Lawn Metairie cemetery was named by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Cemeteries.”This picturesque cemetery boasts some of the grandest funerary architecture and sculpture in the US.
Live oaks surround greek temples, gothic and Islamic style tombs, obelisks, and marble monuments with beautiful ironwork and stained glass.The resting place of many of New Orlean's most influential and notorious citizens, Metairie Cemetery holds the graves of over 9,000 people on 65 landscaped acres. Nine Louisiana governors, seven New Orleans mayors, 49 kings of Carnival, and three Confederate generals rest alongside madams, brothel owners, bandleaders Louis Prima and Al Hirt, vampire writer Anne Rice, and former Saints and Pelicans’ owner Tom Benson.An easy walk. Wheelchair accessible.
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Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home & Cemeteries
Tour Metairie Cemetery
1 hour 30 minutesIncluded
- Tour guide
- Entry/Admission - Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home & Cemeteries
Not Included
- Gratuities
Good to Know
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 16 travelers
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Tickets & Cancellation
You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.