Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery Walking Tour

Overview

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.

City: New Orleans

Wed 21 May

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Starting at $35.00

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Wed 21 May

Starting at $35.00

Make a reservation

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What's Included

Tour guide

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (71)

O1589FKmelissab

Mar 2025

This was a great way to spend a Sunday morning! My tour guide, Glen, was very knowledgable and able to answer any questions. He even took the time to find out what I had done while I was visiting New Orleans and tie my experiences into the cemtery tour. I would without a doubt book another tour with Glen in the future.

Martha_L

Mar 2025

Glenn was a very informative guide who clearly loves the history of cemeteries and New Orleans history!

U6362CIdaniellej

Feb 2025

This was such a great tour, Glen is very knowledgeable and engaging! Beautiful cemetery as well, hardly felt like it was 2 hours long I could have walked around for hours. Glen answered all of our questions, and had some interesting stories to tell about everything that we saw. I would definitely take another tour. Thanks for a great experience Glen. I hope anybody who’s considering going on a cemetery tour does it with Save Our Cemeteries.