Memorial Tree - River View also has free tree ornaments available for placement on our memorial tree. We encourage you to decorate one and use it to eulogize or commemorate a loved one. Your completed memorial ornament may be placed on our holiday tree or taken home to keep as a cherished keep sake from River View Cemetery.

     River View Cemetery's annual, non-denominational, EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE is open to all and dedicated to commemorating this significant day. The vistas from our spectacular outdoor location are breathtaking as the sun rises over the cascade mountains and the sleepy city of Portland. This is the most majestic site the Portland area has to offer for such an important event.

     We invite everyone! It is an occasion to be cherish and remembered forever. Dress warmly, the early spring weather can be chilly at such an early hour. Employees are at all entrances to assist in directing you to the location.

     Cemetery Walking Tours - River View Cemetery also offers self-guided cemetery walking tours. Relive some of Portland's and Oregon's past by leisurely strolling, at your own pace, through River View Cemetery's majestic arboretum grounds. Our self-guided tours are set up for short tours, approximate time to complete each is around 20-30 minutes and outlines 10-15 notable sites. Partake in the adventure of locating such celebrities and notables as Virgil Earp, Portland founders and mayors, Oregon governors and statesmen and war veterans. The serene and peaceful setting has visitors encountering trees well over 100 year old, a charming inner cemetery road system and one picturesque scene after another. If you're wanting to know who many of Portland's main streets and landmarks are named after, a stroll through River View Cemetery will provide the answer - names like Terwilliger, Mulhulland, Pittock, Ladd, Corbett, Failing, Benson and Weinhard are just a few.