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PLEASANT RIDGE CEMETERY
17666 VALENTINE ROAD, MOUNT VERNON, WA 98273
May 26, 2025
Please plan to attend the annual Memorial Day service on Monday, May 26th at 9:00 am. All are welcome to attend the 45 minute celebration. Limited seating available. Commissioners will be available to answer questions or address concerns.
Monthly Commissioners Meeting:
Second Monday in the Month at 5:30 PM
17604 Valintine Road, Mount Vernon, WA 98273
To attend the public meeting we ask for you to give us 72 hour notice via email to put you on our agenda.
There are many plots currently available for purchase. Residents of the Skagit Cemetery District may purchase lots for $400.00. Non-residents are charged $800.00.
Cemetery regulations currently allow one burial and two cremations on a single plot.
Contact Commissioners:
Tim Goodman at 360-391-1865 or timgdm@frontier.com,
Rick Anderson at 360-391-0483 or rick@eladesigns.com,
Don Robinson at 425-985-5964 or doc18697@gmail.com
Secretary:
Lori Buher at 360-630-0809 or ljbuher@gmail.com
A BRIEF HISTORY:
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Skagit County, Washington, is located two and one half miles east of the town of La Conner, on a promontory of land in the Skagit River delta known as Pleasant Ridge. This steep island of rock and trees lies in a northwest/southeast direction and is three and three-quarter miles long and one and one-quarter mile wide. It was once surrounded by saltwater marshes. Today Pleasant Ridge is surrounded by rich farmland on three sides and by the North Fork of the Skagit River on the south end. Pleasant Ridge Cemetery is located on high ground on the north end of this promontory at 17666 Valentine Road. The first portion of the cemetery to be used is closest to Valentine Road inside the welcoming archway. It contains the graves of many of Skagit County’s earliest pioneers The Pleasant Ridge Cemetery has been managed and controlled by Skagit County Cemetery District 1 since 1956. There are approximately 2,500 people buried in the cemetery, over 200 of them are military veterans. The cemetery district provides lawn and monument care and the purchase of burial sites. They have also held an annual Memorial Day service at the cemetery since before 1892 when it was known as Decoration Day.
