Forest Lawn Memorial Park
— — a garden built to forget the cemetery.
Not only on a wall.
“The hill above Glendale that Hubert Eaton remade after 1917 into a memorial park rather than a cemetery, with flat markers in the grass, replica statuary in marble courts, and churches you can be married in. Walt Disney, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Sammy Davis Jr. are among the buried. The lawns run quiet under coast live oaks. On a clear morning the view south opens all the way to downtown Los Angeles.
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale was founded in 1906 and reshaped after 1917 by Hubert Eaton, who described his vision as a place 'as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is unlike darkness.' The Glendale grounds cover about 300 acres on the hills between Glendale and Burbank in Los Angeles County, with five non-denominational churches on the property: the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, the Church of the Recessional, the Little Church of the Flowers, the Church of Our Fathers, and the Hall of the Crucifixion-Resurrection.
Eaton commissioned full-scale marble replicas of Michelangelo's David, Pietà and Moses, and Forest Lawn houses the largest collection of these in the United States. The Great Mausoleum, drawn in part from the Campo Santo of Genoa, holds Jan Styka's enormous painting The Crucifixion, at roughly 195 by 45 feet one of the largest religious paintings on permanent public display in the world, alongside Robert Clark's The Resurrection. The replica works were not novelties; they were part of Eaton's argument that a cemetery could be a museum.
The park is open daily, generally 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is free to visit. There is no public map of celebrity graves, by long-standing policy, and staff will not direct visitors to specific markers. The Memorial Court of Honor and the Hall of the Crucifixion-Resurrection keep set viewing times for the large paintings. Cameras are welcome on the grounds; tripods are not. Driving the loops is the easiest way to take it in, as the slope is steep in places and the park stretches roughly two miles end to end.