Events

Artist altars will be open for a Candlelight Ofrenda Night where people can come see the installations and leave offerings at the altar if they feel moved to do so.

As part of the City of Raleigh's WalkRaleigh Program, join Cemetery Director Robin Simonton on a walk around Oakwood Cemetery. Tour is free, but registration through the City is required. To register, visit here.

Join us for our First Friday Tour on Friday, November 1!  This is not a scary tour, but an engaging and educational tour.   Tours are free, but we always appreciate a suggested $5 per person donation towards the preservation of this sacred space.   This will be a monument art and symbolism tour!  Join [...]

Come to the front field at Oakwood Cemetery and  enjoy your last  chance for the public to see the installations and participate in a Candlelight Ofrenda Night.

Starting Monday, November 4th our gates will start locking each day at 5pm.  Opening time is still 8am. Please adjust your visiting time accordingly.  

Everyone loves a good scavenger hunt, right?  Join in the fun! Each November we invite the community on to our grounds (during visiting hours only) to compete in our annual Harvest Hunt! 25 questions- all that relate to Oakwood Cemetery's history and those that rest here. You have the month to complete it, but we [...]

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the cemetery office is closed on Thursday November 28.  Our grounds are still open 8am - 5pm so come visit!  

Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, our office is closed on Friday November 29.

Today is the deadline to order wreaths for Wreaths Across America for Oakwood Cemetery. To order wreaths visit here: https://wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/19204/Overview/?relatedId=0   Join us to place wreaths on Saturday December 14 at 12 noon at our Field of Honor.

Join us on Sunday Dec 8 at 6:30 pm for the Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting Service.  We will have refreshments, a speaker and a reading of the names of our lost children. This event is open to all who have lost a child, regardless of age of the child or final resting place of [...]

Join us for our annual Wreaths Across America ceremony and wreath laying at our Field of Honor on Saturday December 14 at 12 noon. This annual event is a beautiful and patriotic service of remembrance as we honor those that served their country. We host the service at 12 noon, then guests and volunteers place [...]

So our staff can be home with their families on Christmas, our office is closed on Wednesday, December 25.  Our grounds are open to visitors 8am - 5pm.    

Description Join mourning jewelry expert Hayden Peters (www.artofmourning.com), as he takes you through jewelry history that shaped our modern identity. Mourning fashion, culture and art defined how a person presented themselves in society and this presentation will travel between the 18th and 19th Century to show jewels as they were worn, how they were worn and why [...]