• A tree with white flowers blooming in the spring, surrounded by green grass. A path lined with tall trees through the cemetery is in the background.

    Free Tree Pruning & Root Collar Tips Demonstration

    Kensico Cemetery is offering a free Tree Pruning and Root Collar Tips Demonstration at the Cemetery on Saturday, April 22 from 9:30AM to 11AM. Home gardeners, landscapers---anyone responsible for tree care---will learn why pruning [...]

    Posted: March 27, 2023

  • A path through the cemetery lined with trees in the spring.

    Free Walking Tours in May 2023

    Kensico is offering free walking tours of the Kensico grounds during the second and third weeks of May. All tours run from 5:30PM to 7PM and each covers about a half-mile section of the [...]

    Posted: March 27, 2023

  • Kensico Cemetery Mausoleum overlooking the lake

    Kensico Cemetery Dedicates Garden Mausoleum

    Kensico Cemetery dedicated the Garden Mausoleum at Montross Pond on Tuesday, May 24 to celebrate and commemorate the first construction for above-ground burials at Kensico Cemetery in almost one hundred years. Attended by former Kensico [...]

    Posted: June 9, 2022

  • Kensico Cemetery Office Building

    COVID-19 UPDATE

    Cemetery Office Hours are 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Monday through Friday and 9 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Saturday, Sunday and Holidays. Visitation Hours on cemetery grounds will be between 8:30 A.M. and 4:30 P.M. [...]

    Posted: May 18, 2022

  • Cedar and birch trees on the edge of a pond with a fountain in the center

    Kensico Cemetery Earns Arboretum Status

    As part of its First Annual Arbor Day celebration, Kensico Cemetery announced that it has earned Level I Arboretum status making Kensico Cemetery an official tree-focused public garden and one of only two cemeteries in [...]

    Posted: April 20, 2022