Listen to Bluestem: A Hike for All Eternity on GetHiking! Southeast
Welcome to Bluestem Conservation Cemetery
Imagine your favorite walking path, running alongside a babbling creek, through the quiet of a hardwood forest, across a meadow of wildflowers, songbirds flitting between tall grasses, crickets accompanying you along the way. A familiar Piedmont landscape unfolds in front of you with rolling fields of native grasslands edged by woodland views in the distance.
Your journey starts at an old pole barn. A natural surface pathway entices you into the woodlands, past native ferns and shrubs, into a quiet glen where peeking through the trees you catch sight of an interior farm pond. Meandering around the pond, you hear the crickets, pass wildflowers and native grasses, watch the butterflies and dragonflies flitting across the pond's surface. You follow the trail back into shaded woods and walk beside rock outcroppings so familiar to the Piedmont region, welcoming you with silence. In the spring, trillium burst upward from the ground; in the fall, leaves crunch under your boots; always the clean scent of the earth reminding you: you are home.
Your journey starts at an old pole barn. A natural surface pathway entices you into the woodlands, past native ferns and shrubs, into a quiet glen where peeking through the trees you catch sight of an interior farm pond. Meandering around the pond, you hear the crickets, pass wildflowers and native grasses, watch the butterflies and dragonflies flitting across the pond's surface. You follow the trail back into shaded woods and walk beside rock outcroppings so familiar to the Piedmont region, welcoming you with silence. In the spring, trillium burst upward from the ground; in the fall, leaves crunch under your boots; always the clean scent of the earth reminding you: you are home.
A conservation cemetery designed as a nature preserve and place of reverence, with a trail network, quiet areas for reflection, open space for contemplation, and designated areas within its restored landscape for natural burial.
Opening Spring 2022
"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life." —Joseph Conrad
Photo Credit: LANDMATTERS
