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HOURS
OF OPERATION
Forest Hills
Cemetery Grounds are open to the public every day, from 8:30 a.m. to dusk.
A guide book by Susan Wilson, maps and brochures are available in the
Cemetery Office.
The Forest
Hills Educational Trust Office and the Main Cemetery Office are open Monday
through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30. The Main Cemetery Office is also open Saturdays
8:30 to 1:00 p.m. The Forest Hills Crematory and Columbarium are open
Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays 8:30 to 1:00.
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Map to Forest
Hills Cemetery
95 Forest Hills Ave
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-3714
DIRECTIONS
BY ORANGE LINE
Take the
Orange Line (or various bus lines) to Forest Hills Station. Exit through
the Hyde Park exit and use right-hand escalator to reach street level.
Cross the avenue and take a few steps to the right. Turn left onto Tower
Street (there is a dentist's office and beauty supply shop at the intersection).
Walk one long block to the end and enter Forest Hills’ pedestrian
gate. Follow the path as it curves to the left, and then turns sharply
to the right where you will see the tiled roof of the Forsyth Chapel and
Main Office ahead, near greenhouses and a parking area. You are at the
back of the building; go through the stone archway to the Main Front Gate
and office and chapel entrance.
DIRECTIONS
BY CAR
There are many possible routes to Forest Hills by car. If you have a preferred
route to the Arnold Arboretum or Faulkner Hospital, adapt the last part
of the directions below.
From
Route 128/95 using Route 9 East
- Take Exit
#20A (Route 9 East, Boston and Brookline). Take Route 9 east for approximately
3 miles. Go past the Atrium Mall and then take exit for Hammond Pond
Parkway (to West Roxbury and Hyde Park), just after a Milton's and Barnes
and Noble on the right.
- Take a
right at the end of the exit ramp and go 8/10 of a mile on Hammond Park
Parkway through one light to a rotary. Go straight through rotary (3rd
exit - Newton Street). Go 1/3 of a mile past the Putterham Golf Club
(on your left), and the road will fork. Bear right onto Grove Street.
- Go up
the hill through one set of lights to another rotary. Go 3/4 of the
way around and take the 3rd exit at Pond Street. Proceed to next right,
Allandale Road.Take a right onto Allandale. Go 1 mile, past Allandale
Farm, to the end of the road at VFW Parkway/Centre Street; Faulkner
Hospital will be on your left.
- Take a
left onto Centre Street/VFW Parkway. Go 6/10 of a mile to a rotary;
take the first exit off the rotary onto the Arborway – 203 East/Dorchester.
Go one mile, passing the Arnold Arboretum Main Entrance (on the right)
and proceeding over an overpass. Ignore the sign just before the
overpass bridge which says to "exit right for Forest Hills".
- After
the overpass, go through a final rotary and take the "Route 203
East to Dorchester" exit. Make an immediate right onto Forest Hills
Avenue (the cemetery driveway). Continue up the driveway to the main
gate and office. You may park along the drive.
From
Boston and Cambridge
Take Storrow Drive to the Fenway/Park Drive exit. At the top of the ramp,
follow signs to the Riverway/Boylston Street. The ramp will feed you onto
Boylston Street. Take Boylston Street (past Fenway Park on right) through
three lights, where Boylston Street flows into Brookline Avenue. Take
Brookline Avenue past the hospital district all the way to the Riverway;
take a left onto the Riverway. The Riverway will become the Jamaica Way
and then the Arborway, and you will pass Jamaica Pond. Stay on the Arborway/Route
203 East and go through a rotary; take the exit marked "Route 203
East to Dorchester." You will pass the main entrance for the Arnold
Arboretum on the right. Continue 1/2 mile past the Arboretum entrance,
staying on Rt. 203 across an overpass (Forest Hills Orange Line T-Station
will be below you on your right, with a tall clock tower). Ignore the
sign just before the overpass that says to "exit right for Forest
Hills"). After the overpass, go through a final rotary. Take
the "Rt. 203 East to Dorchester" exit and make an immediate
right onto Forest Hills Avenue (the cemetery driveway). Continue up the
driveway to the main entrance. You may park along the drive.
From the Southeast Expressway/Route 93
From North or South, take Exit #11 (Granite Avenue-Ashmont). Go straight
off the exit ramp to the first commercial intersection; a MacDonalds’
will be on your right, an Irish pub straight ahead. Turn left at that
traffic light. You will be on Rt. 203 West-Gallivan Blvd. When you see
Norfolk Hardware on your left, Gallivan Blvd. merges into Morton Street
(still Rt. 203). Continue straight ahead, across Blue Hill Ave. You will
soon see Forest Hills Cemetery on your left. At traffic light, with cemetery
signs on left, turn left onto Forest Hills Avenue. (If you come to a rotary
on Rt. 203, you’ve gone just a few yards too far; continue around
the rotary and enter the cemetery drive immediately.) Continue up the
driveway to the main entrance. You may park along the drive.
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