A woman visiting a columbarium of a loved one.

Cremation Cemetery Options

Families often gather for a funeral or memorial service before or after a loved one’s cremation, but what will happen in the weeks, months and years to come? After a loss, there is still so much to hold onto. Establishing a permanent place to visit, remember and reflect can help with the grieving process and create a lasting legacy. Memorial parks and cemeteries offer a wide range of options for a loved one’s ashes, including cremation gardens, columbaria, glass-front niches, shared gravesites, mausoleums, pedestals, benches, boulders and more.

Cremation gardens

Within memorial parks, these thoughtfully designed spaces in nature offer a place to visit, reflect and feel close to the ones you love. These gardens often feature pathways, landscaping and dedicated areas for personal tributes.

Pedestal of a butterfly at a Cremation Garden.

Garden pedestals

A quiet way to lift someone’s memory into view. These simple, enduring columns hold an urn and a sculpture, offering a meaningful focal point within a cremation garden.

Cremation bench in a Cremation Garden with a pathway.

Memorial benches

Inviting places to pause within a natural setting, memorial benches can hold one or more urns—creating a space to sit, honor memories and find comfort during every visit.

Scenic walkway through the cremation garden with a memorial portrait slanted marker.

Garden markers

Woven into cremation gardens, these memorials hold a loved one’s ashes and are engraved with personal details. Lining the pathways, they provide touchpoints of remembrance, inviting moments of reflection for all who pass through the garden.

Memorial boulders

Substantial and natural, memorial boulders can hold ashes, bear a loved one’s name or simply become a grounding part of the landscape—anchoring their memory in a space designed for remembrance.

Columbaria

Columbaria are aboveground memorials that hold urns. They can take many forms—from larger community settings shared by many families to smaller memorials created for private reflection. Whether indoors or outdoors, columbaria reassure families that a loved one’s memory has a dedicated place to be visited and honored.

Scenic pathway in the cremation garden featuring columbariums, flowers, green grass, and trees.

Cremation estates

Cremation estates are private memorials designed for families who wish to be remembered together. Often personalized with inscriptions or decorative touches, they provide a meaningful place of connection—set apart within the larger memorial landscape—where closeness in life is reflected in remembrance.

Scenic pathway in the Cremation Garden with flowers, green grass, and trees.

Granite-front niches

Granite-front niches provide families with an established place to hold a loved one’s urn. Housed behind polished stone panels that display engraved names, dates or personal sentiments, they create visible touchpoints of memory that can be returned to and appreciated over time.

A father and daughter visit a loved one’s columbarium in the peaceful cremation garden.

Community columbaria

Community columbaria offer a shared place where many families can honor their loved ones together. These walls or free-standing structures provide individual spaces within a collective memorial, creating a peaceful setting for reflection and remembrance alongside others who understand loss.

Glass-front niches

Encased in glass, these spaces hold urns alongside photos, mementos, artwork and other personal touches that share a loved one’s story. Every detail can be chosen to reflect their life, passions and personality, creating a one-of-a-kind place where presence feels near and memory is kept vividly in view.

Grandfather and Grandson visiting a loved ones Glass Niche.

Single niches

Located within a memorial building, these niches hold a loved one’s urn while displaying the details that bring their story to life. Visitors can return year-round, finding comfort in a space that is always temperate and welcoming.

Detailed view of a glass niche displaying keepsakes in a columbarium.

Companion niches

Designed to hold urns for two people, companion niches keep loved ones side by side within a shared glass-front space. Families can personalize them with photos, keepsakes and inscriptions that honor a shared life, creating a lasting tribute to their bond.

Shared gravesites

Loved ones can be memorialized together even if they made different choices—such as cremation for one person and casket burial for another.

Mother and daughter walking together along a scenic pathway in a cremation garden.

Gated estates

Secluded garden areas where families can gather and remember—a private space where your family’s story can unfold, creating lasting connections across generations.

Families visiting and honoring loved ones at the cremation garden.

Hedge estates

Private memorial spaces framed by living greenery, creating a cherished sanctuary that grows more beautiful with time.

A husband and wife sharing a hug by a flat marker in a community garden.

Lawn gardens

Ground burial of urns alongside caskets in community gardens, marked with headstones or flat markers.

Mausoleums

Places where memory endures and connections are kept close, mausoleums offer a dignified setting for cremation remembrance. Whether part of a community mausoleum or designed for a single family, they bring loved ones together in one location, establishing a legacy that spans generations.

Community Columbarium with a large tree and benches.

Outdoor community mausoleums

Open-air or partially sheltered, these spaces pair the dignity of a mausoleum with the beauty of natural light and surroundings, creating a serene place for remembrance.

Woman placing flowers in a flower holder at a columbarium.

Indoor community mausoleums

Enclosed and climate controlled, these spaces offer year-round comfort, privacy and a quiet atmosphere for reflection.

Private Mausoleum surrounded by trees and flowers.

Private family mausoleums

Private, walk-in spaces that can hold urns, caskets or both, allowing generations of loved ones to rest in a single, secluded place.

Remembrance after Cremation

Planning a cremation can be overwhelming, and for many families it’s unfamiliar territory. In a time filled with emotion and uncertainty, knowing what comes next can be comforting. Our Guide to Cremation Remembrance walks you through the choices ahead and help you explore what’s right for you.

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People visiting and walking through a Cremation Garden.

Cremation Cemetery Options