Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens

My fiancé’s best friend was buried here in 2014, and he visits often. Just recently, he stopped by on his best friend’s birthday. He brought yellow flowers —and placed them in the broken vase (which management has known about). He added flower food and tied a birthday balloon to it. The very next day, another friend visited and took photos. The flowers were completely gone. The balloon was popped and lying on the ground. Judging by other reviews, this isn’t an isolated incident—it’s a pattern. And judging by management’s responses, they’re fully aware of how many families are unhappy. The fact that nothing changes makes one thing clear: they do not care. Since “constant lawn care is necessary” maybe they should hire more empathetic landscapers. I know it’s just work for them, but when someone is standing at a grave site grieving, a group of landscapers joking, laughing, and talking 20 feet away is extremely inconsiderate, bad enough they’re already bulldozing everything we put on a grave. It’s a beautiful place and I don’t want to bash it, but I wouldn’t choose them, personally. Be mindful and stay on top of things. Your efforts to honor your loved ones could be disrespected or erased, and although management will apologize and tell you it’s inevitable because they have “70 acres of land”it doesn't change the fact that these things we put on graves are expensive and you’re not putting it there to be ripped down at the end of the day. I’m still unsure how the amount of land you own, correlates to constant complaints of inconsiderate landscapers.

Very kind and helpful staff. Denera went above and beyond to to help with showing me around and answering questions. Very good experience here ! Thank you Dulaney Valley and especially Denera !

September 2025: Earlier this spring, a new General Manager of the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens reached out to discuss a resolution to my father’s damaged memorial likely caused by groundskeeping machinery. The manager and his team worked quickly to replace the memorial. I believe the groundskeepers (lawnmowers, burial crews) are also being more mindful not to disturb nearby sites. I appreciate the new management’s diligent oversight into ensuring memorials are maintained with integrity. The Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens are truly beautiful and serene, and I hope to see sustainment of these improvements for our loved ones’ final resting places. March 2025: The dead do not get to rest here. I wish I could give this place zero stars. I buried my father here in 2020, and since then, the amount of times I’ve had to contact management to fix damage to his grave is insane. Not only am I experiencing this, but my friends who have their love ones buried here too share my frustrations about the management of the cemetery. One of the most egregious incidences was when they installed someone’s plaque over my father’s plot. At first, management tried to gaslight my mother into thinking she was wrong to be raising a concern about it. But they only believed us after we took a measuring tape and proved to them they put someone else’s plaque on top of my dad. Not only that, but if they would have gone to check themselves, they would have seen that there’s no logical way putting someone’s plaque just 4 feet in front my dad’s is not a violation on his plot. My dad was buried in a coffin. You could have eyeballed it and seen something was wrong. The insanity. Also, the lawnmowers have no respect for the dead. They will bulldoze your decorations and flowers with no remorse or regrets. To management: do better.

As an artist, I was interested in the artisans who made all the beautiful stonework, the paintings, the ironwork and especially the stained glass work in the mausoleum. Cheryl helped me by providing any information she could find in DVMG's history archives. It's a pleasure to have someone as conscientious and helpful as Cheryl has been.

Dulaney Valley Gardens did a fantastic job of helping us navigate a very difficult and emotional time as we worked together to determine interment arrangements for our daughter. I can't imagine anyone being more sensitive, professional and understanding.

Roosevelt was so genuinely compassionate and caring in the process of helping my mother make burial arrangements for herself and our family. My mother was nervous about making arrangements, knew it had to be done, but didn’t want to face it. I felt similarly, but my wanting to make sure her wishes were known and followed overrode any of my resistance. Right from the start, Roosevelt put us both at ease by his calm and caring manner. He heard my mother’s main concern of wanting something nice but within a reasonable budget, nothing too fancy. He presented the cost friendly options that my mother liked and accepted, and he never tried to up-sell her. That was a relief to me. There was a part of me that was bracing for that, but it never happened. Roosevelt was patient, listened and heard my mother’s wishes, and presented just the right things. My mother and I left feeling uplifted that it had been taken care of, and so pleasantly with Roosevelt’s assistance. He made it easy. Thank you Roosevelt, you're a gem!

Very nice, beautiful place with swans. However, as a neighbor, I wish they would do something about the ruckus every lawnmowing day. These guys ride around on mowers for hours, seems kind of excessive. The grass doesn't even grow that much in a week. It would be better to maintain more of a solemn respectful attitude when mowing the cemetery lawns, thank you.

I'm very 😞 displeased with services here. The day of burial there was no hole dug for my son. Asked to speak to manager that following Monday. She did not not where his body was. My whole family were devastated. Amy is her name. She admitted they had to do better. I was already grieving my son's death and I found no one knew where the body was. I asked for it to be dug up,they replaced the casket with the same one and most likely cremated my son's body. The day we arrived for reburial, we wanted proof. They did not provide it and Amy and receptionist carried on a laughing conversation as we were devasted of not knowing who was in that casket. I prayed that God would let her face the same trauma she and the staff did to our family. Oh the main point was as I asked where was my son's body she constantly talked about money and low class people who could not afford caskets. Just horrible. Not recommended! I was treated the worst a person could have been treated in top of loosing a son.

Recently our beloved 16 year old dog Bogie passed away and just wanted to mention how courteous Hugh and Kim were with helping my family. I recommend considering Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens if you should need a resting place for your loved family pet😢 They were caring, understanding, considerate and very patient. I am so grateful and appreciative for the empathy they showed during this difficult time. Thank you again

I wanted to leave a review mainly because of one gentleman, Roosevelt, who helped us through a very difficult time. Thank you for gently walking us through the whole process. Even though you didn't have to, we appreciate you checking on us and our loved one's resting place from time to time. I thank God that he sent YOU to help us that day. May God continue to use you as a vessel to comfort others like you have done for us. God bless you.