Westwood Hills Memorial Park
Placerville, California
Preserving a rich history in the heart of northern California gold rush country, Westwood Hills Memorial Park is the final resting place of many of the state’s “49ers” who flocked to the region in the mid-19th century in hopes of making their fortunes.
Visitors to Westwood Hills can enjoy a tranquil parklike setting that includes water features and walking areas.
The park’s “Meadow” is designated as a natural burial area. No machine-manufactured headstones are used; only natural stones are permitted, engraved or painted with the epitaph of your loved one.
A Site of Immense Beauty
Westwood Hills Memorial Park is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near the El Dorado National Forest. Besides its natural beauty and immaculate upkeep, it offers many burial options.
Choose a natural burial or traditional burial within designated sections of the property, burial in the memorial park or interment in a cremation garden, cremation niche, or mausoleum.
Westwood Hills Memorial Park
2720 Cold Springs Road, Placerville, CA 95667
(609) 628-2297
Special Features
Visitors to Westwood Hills can enjoy the tranquil setting that includes water features and walking areas sure to soothe. The cemetery is surrounded by the El Dorado foothills near the El Dorado National Forest.
Services
- Burial Site Opening and Closing
- All Faith Chapel Coming Soon
- Display Space Onsite
- Mausoleums
- Columbariums
- Eco Trails
- Advanced Reservations are Available
Availability
The Asian Garden
- Cremated Remains Burial
The Meadow
- Natural Full Body Burial
- Tree of Life Cremated Remains Burial
- Cremated Remains Burial
- Cremated Remains Scattering
Victorian Eternity Gardens
- Cremated Remains Burial
Poppy Hill
- Full Body Traditional Burial
Mausoleums
- Full Body Entombment
Columbariums
- Cremated Remains Niches
Learn More About Westwood Hills Memorial Park
Westwood Hills Puts its Clients’ Minds and Bodies at Rest, by Dawn Hodson, Mountain Democrat
Green Burial: Westwood Hills Memorial Park in Placerville, California
Home to the United States’ FIRST Jizo Grieving Site
In November 2023, Destination Destiny Memorials partnered with the non-profit organization The Jizo Foundation to establish the first Jizo Grieving Site in the United States. Based on ancient Japanese rituals, Jizo Bodhisattva is the protector and guardian of children who have died and comforter of those who grieve their deaths. In this special area, the public is invited to visit during cemetery hours, to sit, meditate, grieve, and remember. The beautiful stone Jizo sculpture centerpiece donated by Dr. Patricia Danaher is the first large one of its kind in public in the United States.
