Lafayette Cemetery No. 2

Worth a visit, the graveyard is a bit small and not as famous as many of the others in New Orleans but it’s free to explore on your own. It’s about 5 blocks from the trolley stop on Saint Charles and Washington, so easily accessible via public transportation.

Underrated worth visiting landmark in new Orleans, definitely in the top 3. The alternative cemeteries might have more fame but they either have been closed for 5 years or charge you 25 dollars to go with a mandatory tour. Here you can see the characteristic elevated graves for free. The neighborhood is nice with real new Orleans taste

Simultaneously cool and creepy. I'll stick with being cremated too

All I can say is WOW what a beautiful cemetery! Thank you for allowing us to walk around see the history of this beautiful place! There is a lot of history here.

It is free to visit. It is just several blocks from Garden District. We went there when visiting Garden District.

Very interesting
Must visit
It’s free

Loved loved! Must visit place! Something so peaceful about walking amongst the people that left us in non-entertainy gratifying kind of way!

A timeless treasure. For all my visits and the years I lived in New Orleans, I'll never tire of this spot

The last time I visited, Lafayette No. 1 was closed, so we walked down to Lafayette No. 2. This one isn't as famous as No. 1, it's less of a tourist destination and it's in a more blue collar area, so there's a little less money invested in it, but it's still a gorgeous place to be, and there's still so much history.
I noticed some other reviews mentioned it's "not a safe area" and I don't quite think that's fair. That being said, being a tourist anywhere makes you a little bit of a target. Keep your wits about you and respect the area and you'll be fine.

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This was so neat to walk around and look at. Being from the pacific northwest, we just don't see these. It felt a little weird at first turning a gravesite into my personal tourist destination, but I quickly got over it as I mentally paid my respects. This is a MUST see!

According to the Archdicese of Greater New Orleans, this cemetery is called St. Joseph #2, not Lafayette #2. I spent an afternoon there last week looking for my ancestors among the dead, and this cemetery contains the dead from about 1850 - present. When this cemetery was laid out, it would have been just outside the city limits, and that would have placed it around the mid-1800's. Not particularly old by New Orleans standards, but old enough.

Among the tombs here one will find several mass tombs of what during the 1800s would have been known as "benevolent societies", that is groups of (usually) men who would work together to advance some cause. Sometimes it was Irish cultural preservation or German immigrant assistance. Sometimes it was Chinese cultural integration or just a group setting up a secret society to advance their own interests (like the Woodmen of the World or the Minerva Society or even the Odd Fellows). Curiously mant men prefered to be interred with their fellow society friends instead of in their family crypts with their wives and children or parents. So it is that often wives' tombs will be without their husbands, and one must determine to which benevolent society the husband belonged before one can locate his burial.

Although as one reviewer from abroad suggested, several of the tombs have been broken into and used for other purposes, and the cemetery is indeed in a poor neighborhood, one need not worry over much about one's safety as the neighborhood is one of home-owners, not renters or projects, and the majority of crimes in New Orleans occur to the north and west of the French Quarter. In fact I ride my bicycle through this neighborhood often, and have had to knock on doors to request help for punctured tires before. People have always been nice and helpful.

Beautiful cemetery, not taken care of at all. It’s so awesome to see all the above ground tombs.

Very disappointed. So many negative reviews about how sketchy the neighborhood was and I felt so safe. And not a single heroine needle.

Really cool place. There was a little up keep but overall it's a cool place to see

I'm obsessed with cemeteries. Wish they had night tours!

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