The big advantage for tourists of these 2 cemetaries is that they can be easily reached by taking public transit down Canal Street to the end. Greenwood has some more impressive monuments but Cypress Grove is more peaceful and typical of N.O. neighborhood cemeteries (or I may be prejudiced since this is where my family tomb is located). There aren't... More

We were trying to visit another cemetery but our GPS kept us lost so we decided to visit Greenwood one instead. The front has major monuments for the Elks and Firemen that was very interesting. The rest was interesting with the typical New Orleans above ground graves and seemed well-kept.

We ended up here by mistake but we thought it was amazing! We wanted to see the St. Louis Cemetery #1 but took the canal street trolley all the way here until we realized we needed to be in the French Quarter intend for the St. Louis Cemetery but we decided to look around anyways. We enjoyed this site better... More

When we went we where the only ones in Cypress I saw most tourist walk right by and keep going for the cemeteries farther in the city but these are just as nice if not better. Some of the tombs in these two cemeteries are interesting what tore at me was the wall of tombs they had that Im guessing... More

Both cemeteries are well kept and have some very unique and interesting tombs. You can take the Canal Street/Cemeteries streetcar to get to them if you are staying in the French Quarter or Central Business District.